We have an unusually High #Tornado Threat from #Hurricane Isaias This movie uses real data, to help educate on why this storm poses an enhanced risk. Notice the yellow vs blue arrows. Yellow are the winds just below the clouds, it’s the low level wind flow (jet) around and feeding into the storm. Blue are the mid-level winds associated with the jet stream. You’ll notice that as Isaias approaches the Gulf Coast the blue arrows increase and the low-level vs mid-levels winds vigorously cross (X) each other. That’s the jet stream (blue arrows) being infused into the tropical system. That will create more cross winds/ shear, weaken #Isaias, but embolden spin in the outer bands. This injection of energy will power strong #tornadoes on the storm’s east side at landfall in the #Florida Panhandle and beyond into the Southeast. Not all storms have this, but it’s more common in fall as the mid-latitude jet stream increases. And it gives the transitioning tropical storm system a different character. It causes the wind field at the core to expand, making the storm larger, empowering the outer bands with more wind, at the expense of the core winds which weaken. (Although all set ups are different, Milton and Sandy come to mind) *This animation does use real wind data, but the tornadoes are added to illustrate where the greatest risk is. They are not meant to forecast exactly where the tornadoes will be.

Attended the Housing & Affordability mayoral debate, and it was nice to see Chow give a shoutout to the idea of Toronto becoming a Charter City when she was asked about municipal power in the face of provincial overreach.

Had an inspiring meeting today that left me thinking all day... The Carney government has a significant blind spot. Canada’s charitable and nonprofit sector is enormous. It contributes more than $216 billion in economic activity, equivalent to about 8% of GDP, and employs roughly one in ten Canadian workers. It operates in virtually every community in the country. Yet when Ottawa talks about nation-building, the sector is almost entirely absent from the conversation. You can't build a stronger country with steel, concrete, foreign investment, and faster procurement alone. You also need people to feel connected to the project, to feel that they have a role in it, and to believe that building a stronger Canada means something in their own community and their own life. The PM alluded to the agency Canadians have in his speech two Saturdays ago, but didn't mention this part of society that's proven to be essential in the past.

SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI ft.com/content/a0dd4ea7-ef3d… via @ft

You can never really trust Canada's 'Big 5' banks. "Royal Bank of Canada and Scotiabank both announced on April 16 they are abandoning their interim climate targets. Scotiabank is going a step further by entirely ditching its net-zero by 2050 target. Both blamed changes in government policy."