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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Temperature falling into the upper 80s in the afternoon. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. Heat index values up to 108. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Guests today: Sheriff Rick Staly, Flagler Beach Commissioner Eric Cooley, Palm Coast Marketing Director Brittany Kershaw, and County Airport Director Roy Sieger, all talking about July 4 festivities. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Hammock Community Center, 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. The meetings are open to the public.
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, 2 to 5 p.m., Picnic Shelter behind the Hammock Community Center at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. It’s a free event. Bring your Acoustic stringed Instrument (no amplifiers), and a folding chair and join other local amateur musicians for a jam session. Audiences and singers are also welcome. A “Jam Circle” format is where musicians sit around the circle. Each musician in turn gets to call out a song and musical key, and then lead the rest in singing/playing. Then it’s on to the next person in the circle. Depending upon the song, the musicians may take turns playing/improvising a verse and a chorus. It’s lots of Fun! Folks who just want to watch or sing generally sit on the periphery or next to their musician partner. This is a monthly event on the 4th Friday of every month.
St. Augustine Music Festival, a series of six free concerts held throughout two weekends in the historic Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. The concerts take place Friday – Sunday at 7:30 p.m. with a different performance each evening. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime. 38 Cathedral Place, St. Augustine. 904-484-4960
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Notably: Flagler Beach City Commissioner Rick Belhumeur tends to be a roving reporter and Zelig in his own right, always where something is happening, especially but not necessarily on the barrier island. He has a good eye for photography, too. Last Tuesday he reported on his Facebook page the latest preparations for the $27 million beach renourishment project getting under way from North 6th Street to the water tower: “For those of you who haven’t noticed, there has been a lot of activity over the last couple days in Flagler Beach. The clearing of the Pebble Beach land to be used by the Army Corps contractor as the souther beach access point has commenced. Also on the south end of town, the equipment needed by the FDOT contractor to bore holes for the seawall have started arriving on site. On the west side under the bridge the FDOT right of way has been cleared of all Brazilian pepper trees. The before and after photos show the dramatic change. And downtown on the beach just north of the pier, one of the pier’s pilings came dislodged and became a huge water hazard. Ocean Rescue, Public Works and Sanitation Departments worked as one to remove it from the water and evacuate it from the beach to be disposed of. Enjoy the photos.”
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Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
It’s Back! Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
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“There is, then, no water that is wholly of the Pacific, or wholly of the Atlantic, or of the Indian or the Antarctic. The surf that we find exhilarating at Virginia Beach or at La Jolla today may have lapped at the base of antarctic icebergs or sparkled in the Mediterranean sun, years ago, before it moved through dark and unseen waterways to the place we find it now. It is by the deep, hidden currents that the oceans are made one.”
–From Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us (1951).
Ray W. says
Mr. Tristam includes a potential heat index value of up to 108 degrees today. Thank you, Mr. Tristam, for the notice.
I implore all employers of outdoor workers to take whatever steps are necessary to protect their employees from harm.
We all owe a duty of care to those with whom we interact. Sometimes that means the very slight effort it takes to look both ways before entering a motorway. Sometimes, it means that more effort is appropriate. If you see your lawn service worker(s) sweating in oppressive heat today, offer them a cold bottled water. It might make all the difference. If you need AC repair in your attic this afternoon, it might mean the offer of an extension cord and a fan to reduce the harmful effects of the extremely hot attic air.
Pogo says
@I agree with 1951’s Rachel Carson
Carson warned us all — and this what we (by our priorities) chose:
DeSantis vetoes bill to bolster warnings about Florida’s polluted waters
The governor said the bill was “ill-advised,” but one of the measure’s sponsors argued he’s ignoring the state’s water quality problems.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2024/06/27/desantis-vetoes-bill-bolster-warnings-about-floridas-polluted-waters/
Our epitaph.
Ray W. says
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its latest monthly report today.
The PCE Price Index reflects a 12-month average rate of inflation of 2.6%, the lowest annualized rate in over three years. The rate matched Wall Street’s forecast. The Fed considers this report one of the more accurate of the many monthly reports issued by researchers.
Another report, commonly called “core inflation”, stripped of more volatile food and energy data, slowed to an annualized rate of 3.4%, the slowest in more than two years.
If I understand these two figures accurately, the measures taken by the Fed to control inflation continue to reveal a steady downward track towards the goal of 2% inflation annualized over a rolling 12-month average. The 12-month rolling average provided a less volatile measure of inflation than does individual monthly reports. For example, when compared to last month’s inflation data, not measured at an annualized rate, PCE Price Index data showed a 0.1% inflation rate, which if that one-month rate were maintained for 12 straight months, it would result in a 1.2% inflation rate, well below the desired 2.0% rate. But it is less accurate to rely on month-to-month data, hence the preferred 12-month rolling data of 2.6% being used by the Fed.