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2025-06-18 09:30:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-18 08:33:06

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-17 23:47:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-17 23:42:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-17 23:18:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-17 23:06:11

Transfer, Pennsylvania, United States

Images: (1) - Personal Weather Station at time of APT. (2)-APT Imagery with map overlay.

2025-06-17 23:03:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-17 22:59:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-17 22:51:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-17 21:19:15

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-17 21:06:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-17 11:40:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-17 11:05:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-17 10:41:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-17 10:13:00

Jo Pollit Rumen Rachev

Perth , Australia

2025-06-17 09:43:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-17 09:03:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-17 08:59:13

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-17 08:28:13

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Cloudy, 20Celsius, 62%Hum, 1021kPa, variable wind. I missed the pass...

2025-06-16 23:55:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-16 23:15:42

Transfer, Pennsylvania, United States

Photos: Weather Station Data at time of APT submission, Outside of weather office, 2 Interior photos of weather office. This is my 'outside office' typically used for Auxiliary Communications, Weather Analysis and other projects.

2025-06-16 23:12:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-16 23:05:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-16 22:56:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL)

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-16 22:47:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL)

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-16 21:35:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-16 20:34:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL)

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-16 20:11:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-16 19:37:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-16 19:28:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-16 19:13:01

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-16 19:13:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-16 12:01:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL)

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-16 11:53:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-16 11:42:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-16 11:38:54

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

In the hope that the APT continues for a while yet, I couldn't resist trying another sounding today. Main highlight, however, was a very close terrestrial encounter with some interested passers by! (* I would not normally go anywhere so close, of course, but these particular visitors made a bee line for me and then peacefully waddled by - although I did shuffle behind the antenna as they did so!)

2025-06-16 11:38:23

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

I wasn’t sure what to expect today with NOAA 19, but a strong signal is still being received on APT. Will you continue the project if APT remains active? In terms of learning I have learned more of what doesn’t work rather than does work! Ferrite beads, position of the antenna, line of site not necessarily height, different antenna builds, directors, reflectors, element types, copper tape, wire types, skin effect, ¼ wave stubs, shielding, noise removing, software compiling, and a general “can do” spirit. VHF is ideal for inspiring and learning as it’s so hands on and forgiving if you don’t quite get it right, especially with the NOAA satellites. I’ve started looking at the Meteor M2-3 and M2-4, and perhaps I might try other satellites at the 1700MHz range, but I can guarantee one thing - I would never have even thought this was all possible from an amateur set up without having experienced NOAA’s 15, 18 and 19! They truly are astonishing.

2025-06-16 11:18:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-16 10:25:00

Jo Pollit Rumen Rachev

Perth , Australia

2025-06-16 09:56:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-16 07:33:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-16 07:14:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-16 07:07:24

Lajosmizse, Hungary

21,9 Celsius,63%humidity, 1017kPa, variable wind, no clouds.

2025-06-15 23:57:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-15 23:56:00

Transfer, Pennsylvania, United States

FLY BY - Ode to NOAA-18 I watched and I waited as you were set to fly by A perfect night for reception, as we had a clear sky As you grew near, there wasn't a peep all of your speaking instruments were all fast asleep You are right over head! But the static remains I messed with the volumes, I messed with the gains I watched on my tracker as you slowly flew by my S-meter grounded, the waterfall was dry We bid you farewell, oh watcher of the sky and I will always remember you, as you silently fly by

2025-06-15 23:17:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-15 23:00:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL)

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-15 22:41:00

Eliot Lambert, Domi Rybova, Greta Weston, and Barbara Mele

This is the first time I've picked up a NOAA satellite pass outside of NYC - I'm on a holiday with my close friends in rural Italy and it is unbelievably peaceful here - the dawn chorus/sound of cicadas at night is a far cry from the noise pollution of NYC...we just discovered a new birdsong from a Eurasian Nightjar - and it sounded like clockwork - or a faint chainsaw - it was beautiful and bizarre...I was scared we wouldn't pick up the NOAA 19 signal but after initial static it was so clear and was joyful to introduce my friends to SDR/to this methodology - one of my friends held the antenna for 15 minutes with impressive stillness - and we took a collective pause. And then to experience the decoded APT and the ephemeral cloud formations that emerged!! The last 6 minutes of the transmission were filled with static as seen on the bottom of the image - but I think I like that!

2025-06-15 22:14:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-15 21:59:00

Transfer, Pennsylvania, United States

2 Extra Images are NOAA 19 Encoded with map overlay and my Personal Weather Station Data. A big SHOUT OUT to open-weather.community (Sasha & Co.) for bringing this to life and allowing us amateur radio/satellite/weather enthusiasts to have a place to share our work. Another Shout out to NOAA-15, NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 for years of relentless service. I don't know your fate, but I hope its as deserving as the service you have provided over the years. We will miss your shadows and echoes, but you will always be remembered in the annuls of communities such as this. Fly high and free.

2025-06-15 21:59:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

It was a typical warm June day with a clear sky. The temperature high was around 37 degrees celcius. In general it was a good day. At the time the picture was taken a couple kids could be heard having fun in their backyard. A couple of neighbours ware also observed taking a late afternoon walk, as the temperature had subsided to about 24 degrees celcius.

2025-06-15 21:48:26

Cambridge, United Kingdom

A fairly normal, sunny June day with sudden rain showers around noon.

2025-06-15 21:45:36

Arbroath , Scotland

We’ve come over to the park in search of more open skies, but realise with the satellite travelling to the east the trees - a tangle of Scots pine, brambles and elder - will be in the way. Still. The sun is getting lower but you can tell it’s close to the solstice: a long bright evening. I’ve roped Aaron in to join me, and we set up on a bench near the top of the hill, next to the water tower. Kids on bikes and wandering teens don’t give us much notice. Around where we settle the broom is already full of leafy-green pods, cow parsley is high and my hayfever is off the charts. The pond below is gleaming with the setting sun, and to the west there’s an open view along the coast when the beachfront opens up and the Tay joins the North Sea. I haven’t seen Aaron in a few days so I catch him up a bit about the End of Life Nowcast, and we reflect on the last one, during COP26 in Glasgow, laptop precariously shielded from lashing rain by a wonky brolly. It can be very useful to have a helper, whatever the weather is doing. I think of NOAA18 still circling, silently. Pointing the antenna at the horizon, I realise I’m bracing to hear nothing, but out of static comes the familiar tones of NOAA19, if a bit faint (due to the trees). Again the idea: ‘the static's like the sound of thinking.’* I should really get another USB extender, or tape it together, this one is a bit loose fitting and when it detaches slightly from the dongle the recording stops and I have to restart it. So, my recording for this pass is in two parts. Both about 5mins. If I splice the audio files together and upload the file, what happens? Thinking with the glitch, being happy with the lack of and resisting the idea of a ‘good’ or clear image is always part of this process. Need to remember this. A counter to the closed, fabricated smoothness and place-less certainty of the pin sharp google image. The space that these DIY processes open with their fuzziness, the image’s materiality written in the grain. *Tom McCarthy, ‘C’ (Vintage, 2010) pg63

2025-06-15 21:44:22

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 21:00:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL)

Valparaiso, Chile

Son las 11 de la noche y cae la lluvia más intensa del año sobre Valparaíso. Desde mi ventana veo las colinas del cerro del frente y una calle inundada con un río de agua bajando la quebrada. Una bruma acompaña el ruido uniforme de la lluvia, iluminada por los faroles de la calle. La ciudad está silente y vacía, tomada por el agua que cae y su suave sonido.

2025-06-15 20:37:17

In the village where I grew up and live, Saint André, Pyrénées Orientales, France

Saint André, Pyrénées Orientales, France

Particules have been in the air for weeks without interruption. Depending on their density, the blue sky, the clouds and the sun are indistinguishable. The sky is white, blinding.There's a veil between us and the trees. Today was a little bit better than it had been for several weeks. Yesterday I was even worst ; in the night it rained for 2 or 3 minutes and dust settled.

2025-06-15 20:37:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-15 19:42:39

Arbroath , United Kingdom

A partial image. Not where I intended to be. It's been a while since listening with the turnstile antenna, now the AGS is installed, and returning from some time away I'd forgotten my laptop needed charged. So, just catching the end of the pass by the time it had enough juice to get going. I'll head out later for NOAA19, energies permitting. This, a portion of NOAA15's pass, came as I sat on the slightly shoogly picnic bench in my wee bit of back garden, a bit too close to the building. The street in the post-tea-time lull, all the washing just taken inside from the lines that criss cross with the antenna's spindley structure as I look through it. There was a big storm here yesterday, thunder, the works, but I wasn't here, and just now it's bright and calm. Quite humid. I've just emptied assorted pots and trays of the water that gathered. I've got 3 bags with potatoes growing in them, right in front of me, and I noticed while listening to NOAA15 that the first flowers have bloomed since I was away. They are gently blue: it's a mystery purple potato seed that was gifted without a name nor an instruction. Perhaps we will yield a portion or two.

2025-06-15 19:39:07

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 19:38:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-15 19:08:10

Sejong City, South Korea, South Korea

Captured on June 15, 2024 — the official retirement day of NOAA-15. Received just before a summer downpour under the East Asian monsoon front. The Korean Peninsula is hidden in clouds, but the image stands as a meaningful record.

2025-06-15 18:57:07

Soph Dyer, Nicola Locatelli, Mykola

Steinspornbrücke, Wien, Austria

1. It is a hot, cloud free day as Nicola and I drive down 'Refinery Road' to a bridge over the Danube to capture this last image from NOAA-15's 'Extended Life' operations. Car parking spaces back onto the river bank and grill parties are in full swing. Large groups of friends and families have set-up chairs, tables and gazebos. Charcoal smoke and river mist hang in the air. On the far side of the bridge, the road curves away creating an only slightly more secluded area that is designated nudist. The nudist zone extends well beyond its official markings on the cycle path that announce, 'FKK' (Freikörperkultur or Free Body Culture). Nicola and I set-up our makeshift satellite ground station at centre point of the bridge: my rucksack shielding the laptop from cyclists, large cat fish swimming below. We are soon joined by Mykola, who introduces himself as being part of a 'space team'. Mykola is Ukrainian, has purple hair, and an immediate warmth about him. He stays for the entire satellite pass and after we listen to air traffic control chatter. Mykola has more technical knowledge than me, but is humble in his questioning and openness to learn. It is a good feeling to have shared this particular satellite pass with someone so enthusiastic, and at such a beautiful location. 2. This symbolic image of three satellites transitioning to different 'life phases', is for my siblings. Three being, for me, ever associated with navigating siblinghood. Three in the back of the car, three battle-scarred teenage bedroom doors, and the skill I had no choice to develop of being able to accurately divide anything into three equal parts. I am one of four but my youngest sibling joined us years later. So, Ray and Joe: this image of transition, of storms, and of night turning to day, is for you. 3. I am writing this Weather Note a day late, sat in bed, my mind and body still trying to cohere after ten days of international travel for work. I have a strong, consuming feeling that I have experienced since childhood, which is the world needs to slow or stop or pause just long enough for me to catch-up. I first felt this way as a primary school-aged child, sat on the intensely patterned carpet of the stairs in my parent's house, overwhelmed by the conviction that Earth was spinning too fast. I worried that if it sped-up anymore, I would be thrown off and tumble in outer space, my home receding into the darkness. I had good reason to feel this way, I was multiple academic years behind my school mates, unable to read even the most basic words. Now, when I read the news, I have the sense that geopolitical events are accelerating. Yesterday, Iran and Israel exchanged missiles ("Tehran will burn" warned Netanyahu), the day before a US lawmaker and her husband were assassinated. Throughout, people in Gaza continue to be be killed by the Israeli military as they seek food aid. In these unreal days, my thoughts often drift to our collaborator and friend, Golrokh Nafisi, who is in Tehran with her family.

2025-06-15 18:44:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-15 12:52:38

embl astronomy club

heidelberg, germany

2025-06-15 12:52:37

EMBL ASTRONOMY CLUB

Heidelberg,Germany, Germany

2025-06-15 12:15:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-15 12:06:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-15 11:55:07

dan rhys wakefield

river thames near canary wharf, london, uk

I turn the corner onto the Thames Path and the sky opens out ahead of me, blue with white clouds scatted across it. The tide is at its lowest point and the river seems calm. This stretch of the river is ripe with new development in every direction and NOAA's signal weaves in and out of the towers as I listen. The pass rises to my north at Bow Creek, moving west across the sky, setting behind the new residential development under construction at Canary Wharf. The towers obscure the signal for the final minutes of the pass, so as I turn back towards the skyline all I hear is static, fading in and out of the tide as it crashes against the stone wall of the embankment.

2025-06-15 11:55:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Today we had to collect washed up seaweeds for a craft workshop on seaweed pressing. We love the pressing process as a way to engage people with seaweeds. The day is perfect and I had more time than I usually do to collect. The seaweeds best for pressing are red seaweed that tend to grow at the bottom or below the intertidal zone. When they become dislodged from their holdfasts, dying, they wash up. A northerly wind blew from the land, making the nearshore water calm – it was bliss. Over the last half a year we have been trying to learn a little how to interpret these beautiful satellite images of familiar landmasses and unfamiliar cloud masses, not often sure what exactly we are looking at. One thing has been certain over the last few months – it’s been mostly warm and dry. We have seen many clear outlines of the cornish coast send down to us via audio file from the satellites. It feels sadly fitting to have spent these months with our ground station, thinking more about weather, whilst the coast our work focuses on is current experiencing the warmest heat waves since records began. Throughout April and May we have seen an ‘unprecedented’ marine heatwave in the northeastern Atlantic. The Met Office has described this heatwave as being unusual in its intensity and persistence. The last time this was observed was in 2023, at the time the most severe marine heatwave recorded in this part of the ocean. Then, both Ruth and I were working harvesting seaweed at every low tide on The Lizard peninsular. Unaware of the data being gathered that summer, we anecdotally saw a large bleaching and dieback of our favourite seaweed Dulse. We worried about its recovery after this local marine heatwave and we wondered what data was being gathered on the effect of heat on the very shallow waters of the intertide. The Dulse seemed to recover well but we couldn’t help wonder how many of these events the ecosystem could withstand. Now working less physically close to this ecosystem, seeing more extreme marine heatwaves, we are left even more concerned for their future. Today, whilst the tide is metres above most species, I swim in the unseasonably warm waters and gather dead floating seaweeds, a tool to teach people about the ecosystem. I wonder how many of them have died prematurely due to heat or if this is just the normal natural lifecycle.

2025-06-15 11:54:51

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

The bees are busy. I wonder if they know.

2025-06-15 11:53:35

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-06-15 11:52:34

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

I sit on the browning grass of Hackney Downs in unseasonably warm weather and read Kaya Barry's latest article on 'unseasonable seasons'. Kaya - a fellow geographer, artist and allied thinker from many symposia and conferences - uses Rob Nixon's famous conceptual framework on 'slow violence' to explore changing meanings of seasons in a time of climate crisis. At least since colonial times, the seasons have been employed to overlay the Gregorian calendar and Western thought-systems onto many other landscapes and peoples, so that local observations of seasonality were heavily suppressed or treated as 'vulgar' (Barry, 2025). This is a slow violence of vernacular weather knowledge erasure. Yet the 'slow violence' of seasons is also about how unseasonable variations in temperature, rainfall, humidity, drought and cloud cover can sometimes be relatively subtle, minor variations, barely breaching thresholds of noticeability. I think of many years growing up in Los Angeles when an ever dryer and dryer, sunnier and sunnier winter was pleasantly enjoyed by most people I knew. Kaya cites artist Roni Horn: 'weather that is nice is often weather that is wrong' (2007: 10). As I write, my home city of Los Angeles is invaded by the national guard: heavily armed military troops whose presence in a city that has just been devastated by wildfire is an obvious violence. 'First fire, now ICE' chant protesters in Pasadena and downtown LA, describing a feeling of living through a climate disaster that is underpinned and exacerbated by a human rights disaster, where migrant workers helping to clean up and remediate burned areas, not to mention how they sustain and contribute in myriad other ways to the culture, fabric and joy of life in Los Angeles, are ruthlessly targeted by ICE forces. The apocalyptic, elemental, even biblical metaphors of fire and ice are difficult to ignore. These thoughts swirl like fractals as my partner and I catch one of the last passes of NOAA-19 over London to contribute to the open-weather 'end of life' nowcast, the day before most instruments on NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 will be shut down.

2025-06-15 11:52:00

Hospitalfield (UK)

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-15 11:51:05

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 11:31:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-15 11:02:26

Nashville, TN, United States

2025-06-15 10:54:25

EMBL astronomy club

Heidelberg, Germany

The weather was cloudy and rainy. The image of the region captured showed clouds over a part of the land regions.

2025-06-15 10:46:46

Steve Engelmann

Santa Monica Pier, United States

I went to the Santa Monica Pier to capture NOAA 19 as it flew over. The pier was a little busier than recently. The weather was great. School is out. It is Sunday and Father's Day. I was approached by a group of what I guess were Chinese tourists. They asked if someone is doing this in China. Almost a soon as they finished the question, they added, probably a bad idea. Another man was entertaining people with his bubble making abilities. The problem was his audience was up on the pier. He was down below on the sand. His tip bucket was in the sand next to him. Just as I was packing up a small airplane flew by pulling a sign that read, "TRUMP YOUR BDAY SUCKED #NOKINGS".

2025-06-15 10:38:00

Jo Pollit Rumen Rachev

Perth , Australia

2025-06-15 10:14:42

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

The rain from the night has cleared and sun begins to emerge along with heat and humidity. An intermittent breeze moves the wild mustard flowers, creating a joyful sway. It bends instinctively, knowing what to do in order to move in time with the weather. In that brief moment it is apparent it's evolutionary development is far more refined than ours.

2025-06-15 10:09:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-15 09:52:02

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-06-15 09:51:32

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 09:28:29

Anna Madeleine Raupach

Sydney, Gadigal Country, NSW

In sub-tropical Sydney, very green and humid for winter. I felt the climate today through noise - of traffic, planes, groups of people, sirens, and only a few birds. I could only recieve a faint satellite signal through it all, but am contributing the noise to the Now-cast.

2025-06-15 08:43:21

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

This was the first morning this summer that didn't start off under a marine layer. At the time of capture (08:43am) it was 20°C and will warm up to 27°C. Warm enough to push the marine layer out to the ocean. I could easily hear the waves crashing on the shore, as if I was on the beach. Early on a Sunday morning, the scene was very calm and tranquil.

2025-06-15 08:40:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

This morning pass of NOAA-15 captured by the Seattle AGS highlights the clear skies above the Puget Sound region, where we've experienced a few days of respite after a record-setting heat wave in early June. The high pressure system that is currently contributing to the comfortable temperature and cloudless skies is also helping keep the Canadian wildfire smoke at bay and out of the region for the most part, which cannot be said for the Midwest and Eastern US where the plumes and particulate have been blowing for weeks.

2025-06-15 08:23:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

It was a truly remarkable day in my neighborhood this Sunday, as if the weather itself knew that NOAA 18 and 19 would send their final signals. We had our first summer storm since Friday in a typical central Florida pattern - sunshine and heat, followed by sudden clouds and patches of rain. I love summer storms in Gainesville because they feel the same as summer storms on the island of Hvar in Croatia. As shown in these photos, one begins to walk down the street under perfect blue sky, and just thirty minutes later, the first innocent puffs of white clouds travel above, followed soon by their older, grayer and heavier companions. And then, for a brief moment, all the birds and cicadas are suddenly quiet, before the first sounds of thunder in the distance. Ancient oaks with their Spanish moss lace and tall pines among patiently wait for the first drops of rain.

2025-06-15 08:18:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

Misty day today. Atmospheric and cozy, though I do find myself wanting to see into the distance and the open sky. Antenna tree is fully leafy now here in late spring. Is the antenna a sort of imposter leaf, handling a different part of the EM spectrum from the tree leaves?

2025-06-15 08:11:41

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 07:59:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-15 06:32:31

Quatre Bornes, Mauritius

A rather strong anticyclone approaching from the South-West is causing moderate and relatively cold trades over our region.

2025-06-14 23:58:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-14 23:32:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-14 23:29:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-14 23:18:00

Jo Pollit Rumen Rachev

Perth , Australia

2025-06-14 22:30:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-14 22:26:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-14 22:11:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-14 22:01:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-14 21:58:00

Hospitalfield (UK)

Arbroath, Scotland

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