🌱 Patch AM: Why climate balloons are launching just outside Saratoga’s backyard

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• Why climate balloons are launching just outside Saratoga’s backyard

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Today's riddle: The doctor told me to drink carrot juice after a hot bath. - Did it help? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: An a.m. shower; mostly cloudy, with a high of 66 and low of 49 degrees.
• Thursday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 68, low: 51.
• Friday: Cloudy, a shower in the p.m., with a high of 66 and low of 53 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Contributing a dollar to block the sun called 'ludicrous' idea (afn.net) — A controversial California startup is testing solar-geoengineering by driving an RV into the hills about half an hour outside Saratoga to launch sulfur-dioxide balloons meant to slightly dim the sun. A climatologist quoted in the piece calls the idea scientifically unrealistic and a waste of effort, raising questions about experimenting so close to local communities.
   

📸 Around Saratoga

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Saratoga

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★ Featured events ★

Sunday December 21

• Sunday Sound Bath in Saratoga at 5pm
  Frendship Hall, 19848 Prospect Rd, Saratoga
  5:00 pm

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Other local events

Thursday December 18

• Drop-in Tech Help
  Saratoga Community Library , 13650 Saratoga Avenue , Saratoga
  11:00 am
• Teatime Book Chatter
  Saratoga Community Library , 13650 Saratoga Avenue , Saratoga
  1:00 pm

Saturday December 20

• Family Storytime
  Saratoga Community Library , 13650 Saratoga Avenue , Saratoga
  11:00 am

Sunday December 21

• An Autumn Picnic: A Crochet Exhibit
  Saratoga Community Library , 13650 Saratoga Avenue , Saratoga
• Art to Love Exhibit
  Saratoga Community Library , 13650 Saratoga Avenue , Saratoga
• Sun and Sea Art Exhibit
  Saratoga Community Library , 13650 Saratoga Avenue , Saratoga
• Kids Musical Polar Express Storytime
  Saratoga Community Library , 13650 Saratoga Avenue , Saratoga
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday December 17

• FINALS - 1ST & 2ND
  Calaveras Hills Milpitas, CA 95035
  8:30 am
• Tiny Toots Concert: Soul4Kidz
  Milpitas Community Library 160 North Main Street, Milpitas, CA 95035
  10:30 am
• Family Storytime at the Campbell Community Center
  Campbell Community Center , 77 Harrison Avenue , Campbell
  10:30 am
• 中/英文雙語說故事時間 Mandarin/English Bilingual Family Storytime
  Cupertino Library 10800 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014
  10:30 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Headkount posted a job opening for Beauty Educator in Saratoga. Apply here.
• Thomas Cuisine posted a job opening for Line Cook Full Time in Saratoga. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Saratoga here.

🗞 Nearby News

Cupertino

• Legion post leads effort to place 1,100+ wreaths on veterans' gravesites (legion.org)
• Here's everything expected from next year's iPhone Fold (9to5mac.com)

Los Gatos

• This Self-Cleaning Humidifier Is ‘Worth Every Penny' And Perfect For Dry Air (huffpost.com)

Santa Clara

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don’t know. I can never finish drinking the hot bath!
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