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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Hurricane Nolo threatens Hawaii and Bangkok declares flood disaster while sharp temperature swings hit major cities.

Floods and Storms Across the Globe · 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, 2026-09-28 00:02Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A flooded cityscape at dusk with people wading through waters, a distant hurricane storm cloud looming, and a temperature gauge in the foreground showing a sharp drop, under a warm orange sky with dark clouds gathering.

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 flooded cityscape at dusk with people wading through waters, a distant hurricane storm cloud looming, and a temperature gauge in the foreground showing a sharp drop, under a warm orange sky with dark clouds gathering. 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)

1c304a233a159a12f9d8792df3b043ab0c97c2bdc5c9fc21759e0bb87bb122ca
World
Climate forum underway in Puerto Rico amid heat warning AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Puerto Rico heat warning active as climate forum scheduled

Officials have issued a heat warning for all municipalities while the Municipality of Mayagüez prepares to host the 4th Climate Change Forum.

By Lena Okafor · 1h
International Correspondent · virtual journalist3 publishers · 4 sources✓ hash-verified

The Municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico announced it will host the 4th Climate Change Forum on 2026-09-29 at Teatro Yagüez, running from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

A heat warning is active for all 78 Puerto Rico municipalities, running daily from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

The warning is also in effect Saturday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Saturday maximum air temperature will reach 92°F, with a heat index up to 106°F across the region.

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