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Daily Mail
14-06-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Both teams to score 20+ points each tonight NOW 4/1 - as Leeds Rhinos host Warrington Wolves in an English Super League showdown
There are four Price Boosts on offer for tonight's English Super League clash between Leeds Rhinos and Warrington Wolves at Headingley. The first two boosts require Jake Connor to score a try and Leeds Rhinos to win, and both teams to score 20+ points each. The odds for those two bets have been enhanced to 7/2 and 4/1 respectively according to Sky Bet. Connor has scored three tries in the English Super League to date this season, while both sides scored 20 or more points in their most recent outings. Meanwhile, the other two boosts are for Riley Lumb or Ryan Hall to score the first try at 4/1, and Lachie Miller, Lumb and Hall all to score tries at 12/1. Miller, Lumb and Hall have combined to score 18 tries so far this season. Sky Bet Price Boosts for Leeds Rhinos vs Warrington Wolves: Jake Connor to score a try and Leeds Rhinos to win WAS 12/5 NOW 7/2 Both teams to score 20+ points each WAS 10/3 NOW 4/1 Riley Lumb or Ryan Hall to score the first try WAS 3/1 NOW 4/1 Lachie Miller, Riley Lumb and Ryan Hall all to score tries WAS 11/1 NOW 12/1
WIRED
11-06-2025
- Climate
- WIRED
The Viral Storm Streamers Predicting Deadly Tornadoes—Sometimes Faster Than the Government
Jun 11, 2025 7:30 AM Storm streamers are using radars and AI robots to predict extreme weather for millions of YouTube subscribers, in some cases faster than the National Weather Service, which has been gutted by DOGE. A large tornado moves down a highway in Texas. Photograph:At 10:44 pm eastern time on May 16, Ryan Hall spotted a blue square on his radar indicating debris flying into the air and realized a huge tornado was racing toward Somerset, Kentucky. 'We've been watching this storm for a while, we've been hootin' and hollerin' for a while, hopefully the message has gotten out there and we know to be in our safe spots,' Hall warned his YouTube audience in a calm voice with a Southern twang. A silver robot with blue eyes popped onto the screen to tell Hall that a viewer had commented about tiny houses near the tornado. 'Oh really?' Hall replied to his AI robot, known as Y'all Bot. The 31-year-old host of Ryan Hall, Y'all—one of YouTube's most popular weather channels with 2.8 million subscribers—went live for nearly 12 hours that day as more than 70 tornadoes swept through the central U.S., killing at least 28 people. Nineteen of the dead were in Kentucky. Hall, too, was under tornado warning as he streamed from his home in Kentucky. Sirens went off in Somerset, but the National Weather Service lagged behind in upgrading its tornado warning, Hall told viewers. He also said that recent cuts had left the NWS office in Jackson, Kentucky short staffed. 'We're about to have a large tornado go through a very populated area with much less warning than what there should be, as a result of that,' he said. It wasn't until 10:57 pm that the NWS finally upgraded its tornado warning for Somerset. Hall doesn't have a meteorology degree, but employs meteorologists like 27-year-old Andy Hill, who frequently appears on his livestream. Hill was on vacation during the deadly tornadoes, but noted that Hall had correctly read the radar. 'He was just looking at, essentially patterns and radar data, which is what I've attempted to teach him over the years,' Hill said. 'On May 16, I think Ryan definitely saved some lives.' A new generation of storm forecasters are going live on YouTube for hours during severe weather events, offering real-time updates to millions of subscribers through a network of storm chasers, and even using AI. Their devoted fans help shape the forecast by sending on-the-ground photos of these storms, for example lemon-sized hail, for the streamers to show live on their screens. As the Trump administration slashes federal weather forecasting staff and climate change supercharges storms, their reports are not only entertaining, but crucial and potentially life-saving. This form of weather content is growing rapidly, but so far there are two main YouTube weather forecasters. Hall, who employs about 40 people across his media business and non-profit, and YouTube's second biggest weather streamer, Max Velocity, are game changers who frequently warn their millions of fans about tornadoes on the ground before the NWS issues official alerts. They do this by interpreting blobs of color on the radar and hosting feeds of storm chasers going live from their vehicles. Hall's AI bot interacts with him during storms and it even has its own channel where it goes live 24/7. At the same time that storm streamers, who are funded via ads on YouTube and merch sales, are booming, the primary source they rely on is in chaos. The Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have gutted staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which includes the National Weather Service, meaning less accurate forecasts from all meteorologists. The NWS, which was already understaffed, has lost 600 employees since January; in June, the NOAA announced it would rehire 100 NWS workers. And as yet another above-normal hurricane season begins, the new generation of storm streamers is careful to avoid the subject of climate change when talking to their audiences in deep red states — to avoid alienating viewers who don't believe in it. AI Weather Bot Y'all Bot lives on a server in Hall's Weather House in Kentucky, a large home that is decked out with a studio, edit suites and tornado shelter. When Y'all Bot launched last year, its first job was to interact with Hall on the livestream, helping to fill dead air. Y'all Bot was buggy at first but learned the ropes quickly. Now, it has its own channel separate from Hall's with more than 800,000 subscribers where it goes live 365 days a year, regurgitating NWS warnings and interacting with viewers. Viewers post in the chat asking the bot to tell them the weather in their area, and it reads them the latest forecast. However, it hasn't learned how to read radar imagery yet, Hill said, and would likely never be able to do that independent of human supervision. 'It's going through all the text-based information that it has access to and relaying it in a continuous format,' Hill said. 'Humans have to sleep, we can't always be there.' 'It is 100% independent, running itself,' said Caleb Beacham, a 22-year-old storm chaser who worked for Hall before leaving in early June. 'It has learned how to forecast weather all on its own through AI and computer learning.' 'We're seeing exponential growth on that channel,' Beacham said. He's aware of the backlash to AI but said their audience loves the little bot. 'We're trying to embrace it and incorporate it into that life-saving information.' Competition Heating Up Meanwhile, 22-year-old Max Schuster, who goes by Max Velocity, live streams tornado and hurricane forecasts from his dorm room in Florida. His more than one million YouTube subscribers are familiar with his cat Cheese Curd, who often walks across his desk, seeking attention. 'I'll usually pick her up at some point during the stream, and show everybody,' he tells WIRED. His operation is bare bones compared to Hall. Behind him is a neon sign in the shape of a storm cloud with a lightning bolt. He uses one camera, five monitors, a couple lights and simple software that instantly broadcasts new NWS alerts onto his livestreams. He recently graduated with a meteorology degree and is moving out of his dorm this summer into a larger studio space. As traditional media shrinks, storm streamers are growing; Schuster recently hired his first full-time employee—Reilly Dibble, who used to work for Hall. Unlike a traditional broadcast, YouTube allows Schuster to go live before there's a tornado warning, so he can warn viewers if a storm is likely to produce a tornado. When Hurricane Milton hit Florida last year, causing a tornado outbreak, Schuster said he heard from a viewer that his livestream prompted their family members to seek shelter. 'Our weather coverage is actually saving lives,' he said. Schuster expects the storm streaming world to get more crowded. He notes that competition has recently heated up between them. 'It's bound to happen, but he wanted to make this more of a competition on YouTube,' he says. 'We're definitely not as close as I thought we were.' National Weather Service Cuts Traditional forecasters, storm streamers, and even Y'all Bot rely heavily on the National Weather Service; the agency is a primary source that runs radar sites, launches weather balloons and flies planes into hurricanes. Cuts across the National Weather Service are making storm streamers nervous. The NWS weather balloon launches collect valuable information on temperature, humidity, pressure and winds. 'Because there's been a lack of balloon launches, the data that's getting fed into these models just haven't been as good as they could have been,' Beacham said. Fewer planes flying into hurricanes will mean less accurate forecasts of where hurricanes will make landfall, Schuster said. Jana Houser, a storm chaser and meteorology professor at Ohio State University, says the understaffing at the National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky during deadly tornadoes was 'a small glimpse of what's to come. ' 'The office did as good of a job as they could have possibly done, but they didn't have the resources that they could have possibly had in a different climate,' Houser says. 'Unless we get full staffing in, there are going to be tired forecasters. There are going to be overworked people. There are going to be missed tornadoes.' Houser said streamers like Hall are providing a public service. 'He is helping to inform the general public, which is a service, especially under the context of a poorly-funded and resource-starved National Weather Service.' But she adds that storm streamers can misread the radar and raise the alarm about a cloud formation that is not capable of producing a tornado. This is problematic if there's conflicting information between a streamer and the National Weather Service. 'It can create a sense of distrust or confusion,' she said. Hill said his team is 'immensely careful' but it's impossible to perfectly forecast tornadoes, and they do make mistakes. Calling tornadoes before the National Weather Service means they have a higher false alarm rate than the federal agency, Hill said. 'There's a lot of layers there to justify before [the NWS] sends out a warning. So their false alarm rate is going to be much lower than ours,' Hill said. Climate Change Conundrum Hurricanes are becoming more frequent as global heating cooks the planet, but you wouldn't know it by watching the storm streamers. They know the climate is changing, but many of their viewers live in red states, so they avoid the subject. President Donald Trump has consistently downplayed climate change; during the 2024 election he called it 'a big hoax.' Yale's 2024 Climate Opinion Map that measures perceptions about climate change across the U.S. found that a majority of people in hurricane-prone states like Florida, Texas and Louisiana, and states in tornado alley, believe global warming is happening. But a sizable percentage of people in those states, around 30 percent, don't believe it's caused by human activities. Schuster, whose fans are mostly based in the hurricane and tornado zones of Texas, Illinois and Florida, believes climate change is happening. 'If you deny it, I don't know what to tell you—there's a lot of scientific evidence,' he says 'My opinion is not based off politics or anything like that,' he continues. 'It's based off of what I've been seeing data-wise, within the scientific field of meteorology.' But he doesn't talk about it on his channel. 'If I bring up climate change or something else, it'll probably end up being politicized.' Hill, meanwhile, takes a more nuanced approach; he doesn't directly reference climate change, but he attempts to educate viewers about climatology, hoping they will become more open to believing in climate change. 'As a climatologist, that's the smartest way to handle it,' Hill says. 'Because if I were to be direct with it, we would just lose 40 percent of our audience immediately.' He knows he's walking a tricky line. 'I don't think many people would be super happy about that, especially activists,' he says. But he argues that his approach is more likely to make climate skeptics curious instead of defensive. 'Especially in those deep red states, there's plenty of people who are still on the fence,' he says. 'It's going to be a long term thing but it's going to be something I work on my whole life,' Hill says. In the immediate future, the storm streamers are facing a busy hurricane season this year, and their audiences will likely continue to grow. Beacham predicted that people will soon create AI bots that can read radar and livestream personalized weather forecasts. And he expects more people will launch storm forecasting channels. 'We're going to see a lot more people start to do what Ryan and Max are doing,' he says. 'They've proven that it's possible.'
The Independent
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
I am enjoying my rugby – Leeds winger Ryan Hall, 37, signs new one-year contract
Veteran Leeds winger Ryan Hall has signed a new one-year contract, the Super League club have announced. The 37-year-old, who passed the landmark of 500 career games in March, will now stay at AMT Headingley until at least the end of the 2026 season. Hall is Super League's record tryscorer with 260 and has spent the majority of his career with the Rhinos. 'I have always said if I feel I can still do a job for the team then I would like to continue playing,' Hall said. 'This is currently my 19th season and it would be great to play a 20th season. 'I have spoken to players who have retired and they always say that you'll know when your time has come but I am enjoying my rugby at the moment and being part of this Leeds Rhinos squad. 'We have got a lot we still want to achieve in 2025 but I am also looking forward to seeing where this squad can go over the next 18 months.' Hall made his Rhinos debut in 2007 and has enjoyed a glittering career with the club, with successes including six Grand Finals wins and two Challenge Cups. The England international rejoined Leeds this season after four years at Hull KR. He also had a spell with Sydney Roosters earlier in his career.
BBC News
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Hall to extend Rhinos career for another season
Leeds Rhinos winger Ryan Hall has confirmed he is to extend his record-breaking playing career with the Headingley club for another season in League's all-time top try scorer reached the 500 games landmark in a 12-10 win over Wigan Warriors in March and has now agreed an extension which will see him play on into a 20th announcing the news, Hall insisted he can still "do a job" for the Rhinos after he passes his 38th birthday in November and wants to stick around to help further develop a team he believes is progressing well."I have always said if I feel I can still do a job for the team then I would like to continue playing," Hall told the club website, external. "This is currently my 19th season and it would be great to play a 20th season."I have spoken to players who have retired and they always say that you'll know when your time has come but I am enjoying my rugby at the moment and being part of this Leeds Rhinos squad. "We have got a lot we still want to achieve in 2025 but I am also looking forward to seeing where this squad can go over the next 18 months."Hall - who previously played for Hull KR and Sydney Roosters - has scored a record 260 tries in Super League, 11 clear of Leigh Leopards' Josh Charnley in second place on 249. The winger also holds the record for England with 39 - and with 343 in total is 19th in the all-time list of British try scorers in the 130-year history of the head coach Brad Arthur said: "His record speaks for itself in terms of his try scoring ability but it is his day to day commitment to the team and being his very best that sets a benchmark for the rest of our squad."
Glasgow Times
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Glasgow Times
Ryan Hall says resurgent Leeds looking to challenge at top of Super League
Hall's trademark dive into the corner in the dying seconds continued the Rhinos' recent upward trajectory and cemented their place in the top four ahead of Saturday's short trip to struggling Castleford. It is no coincidence that Leeds' resurgence after two dismal seasons of missing out of the play-offs should come hand-in-hand with the return of Hall, a cult figure at Headingley who won six Grand Finals before departing his boyhood club in 2018. Ryan Hall believes he can continue adding to his huge Leeds trophy haul (Danny Lawson/PA) Advancing years have not dimmed the hunger of 37-year-old Hall to add to his collection of silverware before he finally hangs up his boots. 'I can't write an essay which some people might find easy, but I can score tries in the corner,' said Hall, who continues to motor clear on the all-time list with 259 to his name after eclipsing the then record holder Danny McGuire – now Castleford boss – last year. 'I love what I do and it's moments like that which reinforce that. As soon as I lose my passion for rugby, that might be the time I give it up, but I haven't lost that yet. It keeps me smiling and I am loving it at the minute.' "HALL HALL HALL!" 🤯 Ryan Hall in the last minute has pinched it back for @leedsrhinos 🦏#SuperLeague — Betfred Super League (@SuperLeague) May 16, 2025 After two turbulent years Leeds have settled under current head coach Brad Arthur, who has managed to mould an eclectic mix of experience, in the likes of Hall and Jake Connor, who has excelled in a makeshift half-back role, with emerging youngsters like Hall's fellow winger Riley Lumb. It has raised realistic hopes that Leeds will return to the post-season stages and perhaps go on to grace Old Trafford for the first time since 2022. 'We want to stay in the top four and not just do that, we want to creep up and catch those above us,' added Hall. 'Leeds over the last six or seven years have really been struggling. It was hard to put your finger on what they were missing, but I can genuinely say now we are a good team. 'There games we've lost this year, apart from the one at Catalans, have been a narrow loss and we had realistic chances to win those games. 'If things had gone differently, we could have been sat at the top of the league with only one loss to our name.'
