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Palm Beach County news: Spaghetti models explained, chef wins on Guy Fieri show; Python Challenge results
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Hurricane season 2025: How to read the spaghetti models that are all over social media
Supercomputers gobble up tens of billions of clues to predict the path of a hurricane, everything from the smallest raindrop to the most raucous thunderstorm, temperatures from the sea's surface to the underbelly of space and the directions of light breezes to gale force winds.
The data is crunched and a 'spaghetti' model is produced.
A decade of over-achieving storms have made the models water cooler fodder; is the Euro better than the American? What's that one rogue line mean?
Hurricane experts say divining the spaghetti models is best left to the National Hurricane Center whose meteorologists are trained to know their biases, strengths and weaknesses.
Because each colorful squiggle can carry the weight of the forecast, or mean very little.
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Palm Beach County chef triumphs on Guy Fieri's 'Grocery Games.' Where to find her desserts
It was a Palm Beach County pastry pro showdown as Blackbird Modern Asian's Denise Elrod and Ganache Bakery-Café's Jamal Lake went whisk-to-whisk on Guy's Grocery Games Wednesday night, Aug. 13.
Elrod churned red wine vinegar into ice cream and turned teamwork into a $20,000 win on the national cooking show.
Forgetting a key acid for her dessert, she improvised with a pantry staple and the daring result sealed the victory.
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Florida Python Challenge winner nabbed 60 pythons and she's just 4'11"
More than 900 people participated in the 2025 Python Challenge, a 10-day hunt in the steamy South Florida heat that this year made history on two fronts with the first woman to win the grand prize and the most total snakes caught since the competition began in 2013.
The winners of the contest were announced Aug. 13, including Taylor Stanberry, who at 4-feet, 11-inches tall is taking home the grand prize of $10,000 for catching 60 snakes.
Stanberry, 29, is the first woman to win the grand prize in Florida's Python Challenge.
Overall, the catches were also monumental this year with 294 pythons captured — the most in the contest's history.
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Diamond Walker is a journalist at The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach her at dkwalker@ Help support our journalism. Subscribe today
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