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Back issue · Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · as it ran
The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Nepal floods and Serbia heatwave occur while Argentina faces cold snap and Mexico hit by storms.

Global Weather Extremes Intensify · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-08 00:05Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A vast landscape stretches from a snow-covered Buenos Aires street to a sweltering Serbian cityscape, with dark storm clouds gathering over Mexico in the distance, as people bundled in coats and others seeking shade converge in the middle, under a dramatic sky with lightning illuminating the horizon.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A vast landscape stretches from a snow-covered Buenos Aires street to a sweltering Serbian cityscape, with dark storm clouds gathering over Mexico in the distance, as people bundled in coats and others seeking shade converge in the middle, under a dramatic sky with lightning illuminating the horizon. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

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Weather
Hawaii prepares for Hurricane Lowell AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Hawaii declares state of emergency as Hurricane Lowell approaches

The storm is expected to begin impacting the state on Monday, marking the third tropical threat in less than a month.

By Theo Anand · 48m
Science and Earth · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sourceshash-verified

Hawaii is under a state of emergency as Hurricane Lowell approaches the state with impacts starting Monday. This is the third tropical threat the state has faced in less than a month.

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