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An evolving set of words chosen by contributors to reflect their experiences of the climate crisis.

squally,

costal,

oceanic,

Gradual,

Amber warning,

clearing,

light rain,

fish,

siblinghood,

siblings,

potencia,

cambio,

flujo,

tangible-intangible,

planetary,

vast,

rural,

sudden,

ubiquitous,

critical,

nice,

depressing,

bearable,

less,

becoming,

#NOKINGS,

in China,

in bubbles,

water,

bodies,

social relations,

brink,

the,

on,

warming up,

worrisome,

strange,

atypical,

light breeze,

blue sky,

no Kings,

unseasonable,

slow violence,

unsettled,

monsoonal,

shared,

monsoon,

protesting,

orange monarch,

charred,

everywhere,

aggression,

opportunistic,

Dense,

Static,

haunting,

un/graspable,

sensitive,

suspense,

expectation,

endings,

Fresh,

Cool,

connected,

complex,

crucial,

decommissioning,

data drop outs,

anomaly,

Gusting,

Thermic,

demonic,

witchy,

Saharan Dust,

slow-burn,

rebuilding,

Political,

adupt,

the first heat wave,

forecast,

changeable,

Fascinating,

Stunning,

Unique,

ever-changing,

restoration,

on my mind,

indistinguishable,

uncertain,

drizzle,

extraordinary,

fragile,

precious,

29.84Inhg,

edges,

glitchy,

29.75Inhg,

Magnetic,

Diverse,

Layered,

29.80 falling,

75F,

overcast,

arid,

sun-baked,

parched,

Cracked,

geological ghosts,

sunflowers,

defund,

appearances,

ranting,

historic,

curiosity,

silencing,

erasure,

fluid,

us,

enveloping,

scrambled,

heavy,

Polluted,

Hot,

adapting,

resilient,

taken for granted,

infinite,

Woman,

Definitions,

Enough,

politcal,

Trans rights now,

Polluters must Pay,

chaotic,

A transition,

A threshold,

A temporality,

Centrifugal,

Durational,

Rooted,

clouds,

of,

Lot,

hopeful,

sunny,

unseasonably warm,

INCREDIBLE,

VITAL,

ESSENTIALS,

Drizzling,

fluctuating,

temperate,

warming,

Unruly,

Agential,

debris,

canceled,

Bulbs blooming,

Peaceful,

honest,

climate whiplash,

changing,

Extraterrestrial,

high pressure,

Polyphonous,

Manifold,

Entangled,

early flowering,

misty,

early,

warmth,

rapid,

Finger pointing,

Ignition,

Rain,

physical,

unpredictable,

red warning,

un-weather,

Transatlantic,

Unwetter,

hollow,

ashen,

Haze,

angry,

confused,

failing,

moldering,

bone-chilling,

damp,

LA,

teleconnections,

snow,

Smoke,

Not a care,

Rollercoaster,

edging,

Santa Ana winds,

Palisades fire,

uncontained,

Evacuate,

Windstorm,

Fire weather,

invisible updrafts,

vultures soaring,

quiet,

Tract housing,

interference,

adaptation,

suspicion,

Sunken sailboats,

Idalia,

PM-2.5,

air quality alert,

inversion layer,

Future,

Unexpected,

Contrails,

new beginnings,

Polar vortex,

1.5°C,

chilling effect,

mossy,

sudden change,

rising,

cyclical,

loss,

fire,

climate reality,

huge,

bright,

underground,

hum of seeds,

Darragh,

elemental,

worms,

mulch,

conspiratorial,

passion,

Nebel,

brewing,

clamour,

forgery,

recycling,

repurposing,

concrete,

civil war,

common ground,

dialogue,

questions,

gloom,

weather,

numb,

grey,

Short-comings,

Uncertainty,

Fog,

wind,

Storm Bert,

Coming storms,

Flat earth,

Bomb cyclone,

indoor sunshine,

displaced,

Joke,

Chaos,

Irony,

temperature rising,

decay,

dirt,

soil,

what you know,

Resist,

Tribe,

Collective action,

Silver linings,

Searching,

harvesting,

Policy,

Climate denial,

Democracy,

Fossil record,

Geologic time,

Anthropocene,

betting on the future,

gambling,

risky business,

hope,

reality,

flooding,

Cognitive dissonance,

Crisis,

slowing current,

Atlantic cooling,

Amoc,

frustration,

anticipation,

troubling,

Troubled,

everything,

Anticipatory,

Serene,

remote,

ten foot surge,

1000 year storm,

warming Gulf,

Milton,

re-member-ing,

harvest,

mushrooms,

Palestine,

given names,

the wind singing,

a lifetime,

body,

overheat,

people,

noise,

moist,

fair,

local,

light,

hotter,

learn,

radiate,

weather balloon,

upside down,

floods,

Grief,

Relational,

Breath,

Lurking,

Medium Temperature,

a story,

greening,

darkening,

inter-relations,

immeasurable,

story,

xenomorphic,

lichenous,

trans-scalar,

saturated,

fractal,

multi-scalar,

circulated,

reflected,

emitted,

warning,

sensuous,

furry,

rainy,

cloudy,

wet,

memory,

calor,

coal,

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heat,

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clear,

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chilly,

windy,

differential,

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green,

gelatinous,

slimy,

deforested,

ominous,

sticky,

ponderous,

summer,

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sweaty,

silver,

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vruće,

sunčano,

suho,

energetic,

wavelike,

spectral,

ancient,

railway tracks,

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warm,

unstable,

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2025-06-11 10:51:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-11 21:36:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-11 11:11:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-11 08:45:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-11 19:44:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-11 19:43:49

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-11 22:40:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-11 22:35:11

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-11 22:36:57

Bidston Observatory, Wirral, UK

A warm and sticky day on Bidston Hill, with high clouds and wind moving in at dusk. I finally got the bits for a V-Dipole antenna and it felt nice to observe a passing satellite with an antenna in my hands. I also felt a little sad knowing that NOAA18 had stopped signalling last week, so was galvanised to connect with 19 at last! More to come...

2025-06-12 07:19:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-11 23:17:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-11 22:35:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-12 10:24:00

Asmit Rai Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-06-12 09:06:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-12 08:16:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-12 08:51:34

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Fully sunny, 18.8 Celsius, 1025kPa, wind: variable.

2025-06-12 09:30:03

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2024-12-12 21:54:12

clemens winkler

Berlin, Germany

One of situated NOOA-18 readings as inspiration for a dramaturgical piece "Waiting for Satellite". In this participatory play, new forms of dramaturgy emerge through our shared exploration of atmospheric phenomena—haunted by weather events, satellites, and cloud structures—as we attune to the invisible, question the origins and impacts of weather, re/pre/enacting weather events on stage. by MA students Anastazie, Annick, Frederik, Marla , Paolo, Szerafina, Yeganeh

2025-06-12 11:54:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-12 10:49:45

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-06-12 07:38:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-12 12:29:37

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-06-12 10:38:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-12 12:34:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-12 19:18:00

Hospitalfield (UK)

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-12 11:22:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-12 19:17:40

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-12 22:23:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-12 22:23:35

Bidston Observatory, Wirral, United Kingdom

Lots of heavy rain this afternoon - walking through the woods and you could feel the clouds wanting to release for a long time before they did. A clearer sky this evening but it felt like there was more static in the air. I liked moving around a bit more this time and playing with the signal.

2025-06-12 19:18:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-13 09:33:00

Jo Pollit Rumen Rachev

Perth , Australia

2025-06-12 23:05:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-13 10:35:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-13 11:01:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-13 09:04:00

Hospitalfield (UK)

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-13 09:07:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-13 09:04:26

Bidston Observatory, Wirral, United Kingdom

Very gusty on the roof today with fast clouds and pockets of sunshine! Nice to have a morning pass with NOAA-15 before I head back to London.

2025-06-13 09:03:54

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-13 12:16:29

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-13 10:25:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-13 11:56:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-13 23:30:00

Jo Pollit Rumen Rachev

Perth , Australia

2025-06-13 22:42:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-13 12:22:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-13 18:51:44

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-13 12:40:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-13 21:25:36

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Sunset, no clouds, 17.5 Celsius, 1023kPa, No wind at moment.

2025-06-13 11:13:18

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

Returned to a spot in Pacific Palisades overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The overcast skies are typical "June gloom". In the second image you can see the opportunistic and invasive black mustard being among the first to recolonize after the fires. Below the bluffs there is a mobile home community which was completely wiped out by the Palisades Fire. On the left you can see the burned lots that have been cleared and covered with an organic pulp to help reduce dust. On the right of the same image are lots that have not been cleared yet. Meanwhile, Los Angeles has been invaded by the National Guard which neither the mayor of governor requested. During the election, the current president categorized "illegal" immigrants as violent rapists and murders invading our country. Starting a week ago ICE officials started raiding a garment factory and a Home Depot where people go to find work. I didn't know the violent rapists and murders were also good a sewing and construction. Protests, mostly peaceful, showed up in a few areas. Questionable tactics targeting vulnerable workers justify the outrage.

2025-06-13 23:08:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-13 22:09:41

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-13 22:52:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-14 10:22:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-14 08:00:00

Alba Iulia, Romania

Today is a very nice day in my area, the temperature is expected to be around 25 Celsius, no clouds, 65% humidity and about 3km/h wind speed. As this was one of the last good passes above my home, before NOAA shuts down transmissions, I wanted to immortalize this nice view of Europe and even Africa.

2025-06-14 08:37:46

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-14 13:00:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-14 12:03:46

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

Warm with thundery downpours today - good for the garden!

2025-06-14 08:49:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-14 10:13:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-14 11:43:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

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 22:11:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-14 20:05:25

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-14 21:13:02

Lajosmizse, Hungary

No clouds, 18.3 Celsius, 64%Hum, 1021kPa, No wind, Sunset.

2025-06-14 12:28:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-14 21:58:00

Hospitalfield (UK)

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-14 21:57:00

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-14 23:29:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-14 20:45:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-14 09:38:37

Anna Madeleine Raupach and Leah Beeferman

Clear Range, Ngunawal Ngambri country, Australia

Recieved from a beautiful property in Clear Range, on a clear cold morning with bright blue skies up above the fog below.

2025-06-14 10:59:40

Steve Engelmann

Santa Monica Mountains, United States

From a trail in the Santa Monica mountains just above Pacific Palisades I captured this satellite pass. The marine layer is beginning to burn off a little earlier in the day. What used to be a charred landscape just a few months earlier is now mostly covered with some plant life. Fresh growth is emerging from the base of many shrubs (chamise, laurel sumac, elderberry) as the roots are still very much alive. Coastal morning glory climb up burnt skeletons. Many bees take sips from large-flowered phacelia. Meanwhile a "No Kings" demonstration in Santa Monica attracted thousands of peaceful protesters.

2025-06-14 20:03:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

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.

2025-06-14 20:07:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-11 07:56:20

Sejong City, South Korea, South Korea

A humid summer morning in Korea. In small groups, my students built a DIY ground station and received this NOAA-15 image, clearly showing the monsoon front over the peninsula and Taiwan — a shared moment of wonder.

2025-06-14 18:50:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-14 22:01:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-15 10:38:00

Jo Pollit Rumen Rachev

Perth , Australia

2025-06-14 23:32:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

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 22:26:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-15 10:09:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-14 23:58:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-15 08:11:41

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 09:51:32

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 09:52:02

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

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 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 11:52:00

Hospitalfield (UK)

Arbroath, Scotland

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 07:59:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-15 11:51:05

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

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 18:44:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-15 11:53:35

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

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 08:23:00

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 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 11:55:07

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 11:31:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

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