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2025-03-30 11:33:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-30 19:53:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-30 23:02:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-30 23:05:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-30 23:30:00

Seattle, United States

Our inaugural recording for our AGS came at the tail end of a string of storms, including thunderstorms and hail, which are rare for Seattle let alone in March.

2025-03-31 11:41:09

Sasha Engelmann

Nicosia, Cyprus

Teaching undergraduate UK geography students in Nicosia, Cyprus is an experience of a clash between worlds- the worlds of Greek and Turkish Cypriots living across checkpoints and buffer zones, and those of students eager to extract 'data' on life in a divided city. Standing on the beach of the suburb of Varosha, yesterday, our guide Georgia pointed to her apartment building, framed by two once-regal hotels, to which she she has not been able to return, like all residents of Varosha, since the Turkish army arrived in 1974. She was due to be married on the day she had to leave her town. She points out fields that once boasted dense orange groves, and speaks about the tradition of making sculptures from oranges in the shapes of dolphins and other animals. She shows us the shop that had the "best cheese sandwich of the 70s- a delicacy", and the boutique where women would buy fur coats. An abandoned kiosk marks the place where Varosha first served soft ice cream. There is an eeriness both to being in such places on a research trip, and to seeing the ruins being photographed by the numerous passerby and members of the public. Many pose in front of dilapidated photo shops and ruined movie theatres. We speak about ruins, aesthetics, dark tourism and what the gesture of taking a selfie in Varosha means. It is unseasonably warm in Cyprus, as most residents tell us- at least ten degrees above the average temperature of springtime. Saharan dust arrived in Nicosia over the weekend.

2025-03-31 12:19:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-31 12:58:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

It’s forecast to be an astrological 0m tide in Falmouth – one of the lowest of the year. These extreme tides always sit relatively close to the equinox and, with the high pressure, the tides will creep even lower than expected. We clear the day and head to one of our favourite spots on The Lizard peninsular. This spot is very familiar to us, a tidal pool that offers calm water even when the sea is choppy and rough. The breeze today disrupts the sea and a swell is hitting this part of the coast – we find the pool to be the sanctuary we always hope it to be. Spring brings beautiful rock pooling – no seaweed has become large enough to swamp out other species, most are in their main growing season, so there is lots of beautiful fresh fronds. The sun-bleaching we see later in the year, as the temperature and UV increase, hasn’t yet happened. The water is still cool, not warm enough to support many fouling organisms. The results are clear diverse healthy-looking rock pools. Kelp semi-drys splayed over rocks, waiting to be freed by the incoming tide. Ruth, inspired, partially dries her Sea Lettuce harvest on a bolder. This sky is so blue, with just the wispiest clouds high above – a blue that makes any other weather seem implausible. On this little spot of coast its hard to belief there will be any visible weather systems on the image we receive today,- but there is lots, you can see The Lizard though, sitting under a pool of clear sky. We were here on the equivalent low tide in 2024, the 12 March. It was so cold we had to bring flasks of tea, hats, gloves and thermals so we could last a few hours out here. Today we bath in the sun, agreeing, with relief, that we’ve made it through winter. Sometimes on days like this we do surveys and try to document what we see – today we just enjoy the space. We wonder how we can incorporate more days like this back into our lives. The Seaweed Institute

2025-03-31 11:18:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-31 19:27:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-31 22:40:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-31 23:17:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-01 09:13:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-01 09:16:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-01 11:05:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-01 21:47:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-01 22:28:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-01 19:25:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-01 22:28:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-01 22:38:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-01 23:05:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-01 11:27:51

Sasha Engelmann

Nicosia, Cyprus

We drive up the road to the English School Radio Club at dust, the sky a soft purple-blue, and a tower with several Yagi antennas comes into view. At ground level are two bungalows, one with the historical 'home' of the English School Radio Club, and a new renovated bungalow used today, as the older structure is failing. Nestor (President of the Cyprus Amateur Radio Society) and Demetris (President of the Nicosia Chapter of the Cyprus Amateur Radio Society) tell me of the history of the club, the days when one had to call the fire department to be lifted on a raised platform to fix the antenna. They have a cabinet full of hundreds and hundreds of QSL cards, written postcards that confirmed amateur radio contacts between operators around the world. "There are some here from countries that no longer exist!" they tell me, and I immediately find myself spreading out hundreds of QSL cards from the former Yugoslavia on a peeling green table. Next door, we power up the transceivers and I make three QSOs (radio amateur contacts) with hams in Slovenia, Hungary and Barcelona. I speak the longest to the amateur in Barcelona, who tells me my contact is 'excellent' and makes good wishes to me and my family. While we listen and tune the radio, I hear many other stories of amateur radio on Cyprus, of speaking to amateurs in Syria, Egypt, Turkey and Iran, and of the politics of amateur radio and current educational programmes aimed to be inclusive to women and girls. The radio is so clear and engrossing - voice rising clearly on SSB through the 'whoosh' of the spectrum - that we are late for our dinner reservation.

2025-04-02 12:30:00

Arbroath, Scotland

At 12.30 the ground station recorded this pass. At 13.00 I was on the other side of town and heard a sonic boom. Squinted up in the sun to see two low flying jets at high speed, heading out to sea, leaving white trails on a bright blue sky. We aren't far from a military base, after all. Around 15.00 I head to the tower for some checks: increase buffer mins to 2, ensure ventilation around the AGS, check antenna's position. On the roof this time the puddles have dried up and the sky is clear. Some of the old bricks holding the tarp in place have Arbroath imprinted on them, and I wonder when and where in the town they were made. Just a small cold breeze to remind that it's spring, not summer. Daffodils almost seem luminescent in the strong light. Around 16.00 I'm down at the beach, the tide is high, almost all the way up to the sea wall. There's a dead seal that's lost its head and a solid pink plastic bottle left on the stair pillar like an extra ornate twirl. It looks recently left and goes in the bin, the seal looks like it's been there a while.

2025-04-02 08:57:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-02 10:52:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-02 09:15:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-02 19:34:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-02 11:15:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-02 22:15:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-02 22:15:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-02 22:51:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-03 10:54:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-03 08:28:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-03 08:49:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-03 11:02:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-03 19:49:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-03 12:50:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-03 22:02:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-03 23:09:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-04 08:21:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-04 12:00:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-04 12:14:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-04 19:22:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-04 12:37:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-04 22:57:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-04 19:46:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-04 23:37:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-04 22:19:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-05 09:08:00

Arbroath, Scotland

"To discuss the weather together = this it’s all the same of talking/ not talking about love." Barthes, The Preparation of The Novel Familiar but ever shifting images. A view from above. From the ground it’s been clear skies, daffodils, fire crackle, cold hands, cold breeze, hot cheeks, happy tears. Familiar but ever shifting images. Always contradictions. To talk/ not talk about love in times of genocide. To talk/ not talk about weather in times like these.

2025-04-05 11:08:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-05 12:01:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-05 12:24:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-05 22:35:00

Kassel, in my Backyard., Germany

Today was one of the first warmer days of spring here in Kassel, Germany. But by the night it gets quite chill again.

2025-04-05 23:25:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-05 19:20:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-05 22:06:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-06 11:31:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-06 08:53:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-06 09:11:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-06 19:29:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-06 12:11:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-06 23:12:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-06 23:15:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-06 21:54:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-07 12:29:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-07 19:44:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-05 10:40:00

Defuniak Springs Fl, U.S.

2025-04-07 22:59:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-07 22:52:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-07 23:02:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-07 21:41:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-07 23:28:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-08 12:56:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-08 11:17:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-08 11:20:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-08 21:56:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-08 19:18:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-08 11:40:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-08 19:41:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-07 10:45:17

David Alejandro Saavedra Herrera

Near of Zapatoca Market in the capital of Colombia, Colombia

It was hard to get it , but still i got an awesome result even for my first time and about the weather we are facing a rainy season so we can see the clouds

2025-04-07 10:45:17

David Alejandro Saavedra Herrera

Near of Zapatoca Market in the capital of Colombia, Colombia

Well we are facing a very long rainy season so i guess thats why we can see that much clouds in the image

2025-04-08 23:15:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-09 09:03:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-09 09:07:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-09 11:04:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-09 21:43:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-09 23:31:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-09 21:16:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-09 22:57:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-10 12:27:00

Arbroath, Scotland

Unseasonably hot for April. A sustained period of dry weather and clear skies. Dusty streets, high pollution and tree pollen adrift. Throat scratch. Can't actually remember the last time it rained. Reports of wild fires on the west coast, on Arran and Bute. It's the school holidays. Another news report of chaos at East coast beaches, masses of people flocking to the sea. Ice cream headaches for North sea dookers. As one of them, met an unexpected headwind cycling east from Arbroath to a beach, but the breeze felt hot. Wind sock dancing. And still cold at night.

2025-04-10 08:45:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-10 08:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-10 19:24:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-10 09:06:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-10 19:35:00

Central Europe, Czech republic

I dont see a lot, it is my first experience. But I see a lot of clouds above balkan countries

2025-04-10 11:14:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-10 22:15:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-10 22:49:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-11 12:14:47

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

Today's sounding was mainly a test run, with noise and audio cutouts (the dark striations) proving a persistent issue - although the image was better than expected. Suspect these artefacts are a quirk of the new laptop I have been using, as previous devices (now sadly defunct) were fine. Once again, a reminder of the intricate chain of systems that all need to align in order for a recording to be gathered and processed.

2025-04-11 08:40:00

Seattle, United States

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