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

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,

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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,

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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,

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early flowering,

misty,

early,

warmth,

rapid,

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Rain,

physical,

unpredictable,

red warning,

un-weather,

Transatlantic,

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hollow,

ashen,

Haze,

angry,

confused,

failing,

moldering,

bone-chilling,

damp,

LA,

teleconnections,

snow,

Smoke,

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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,

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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,

sweat,

heat,

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grounded,

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clear,

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chilly,

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differential,

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green,

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deforested,

ominous,

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ponderous,

summer,

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sweaty,

silver,

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vruće,

sunčano,

suho,

energetic,

wavelike,

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ancient,

railway tracks,

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warm,

unstable,

cold,

sandy,

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2025-05-18 11:37:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-18 11:14:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-18 11:03:11

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-18 08:55:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-18 08:44:11

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-18 06:35:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-17 23:45:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-17 23:44:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-05-17 23:16:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-17 22:05:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-17 11:31:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-17 11:26:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-17 09:14:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-16 23:57:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-05-16 23:03:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-16 22:46:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-05-16 22:17:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-16 20:22:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-16 19:48:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-16 13:10:08

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-05-16 11:51:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-16 11:43:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-16 11:42:31

Transfer, Pennsylvania, United States

2025-05-16 11:32:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-16 11:31:01

Sasha Engelmann

Between Schilling and Queens Buildings, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kindom

From the cavelike darkness of my university office, my day is textured by a slow livestream of weather from around the world. Yesterday we launched the Year of Weather Map - a collective map of weather created with satellite imagery contributions from DIY satellite ground station operators around the world. Around lunchtime a new series of images over Europe roll in, adding wispy cloud textures over the North Atlantic. Later in the afternoon, an incredibly clear image arrives spanning from the Great Lakes to Central America and featuring a brilliant sun-glint in the Gulf of Mexico. I await with some expectation an image from India but it does not appear in the Archive- suggesting a power cut, wifi failure or other infrastructure issue on the ground. Then on my train ride home it’s there in the archive and map - a ghostly nighttime image with a condensed mass of cotton-ball clouds to the South and the faint coastline of India and Pakistan. All of these weathers layer in slow, meditative fashion on the somewhat glitchy map we have created, the result of five years of network building, tool-making and the design, testing and crafting of small units of hardware.

2025-05-16 11:28:52

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-05-15 23:16:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-15 23:09:16

Merzouga, Morocco

At night, life, elements and forces draw the star of Morocco.

2025-05-15 22:32:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-05-15 22:04:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-15 21:56:49

Michele Boulogne

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Finland

2025-05-15 19:44:58

In a tiny desert, Morocco

An empty place filled with waves.

2025-05-15 18:56:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-15 18:32:00

Michele Boulogne

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Finland

2025-05-15 18:31:00

Michele Boulogne

Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory, Finland

The weather is clear on Northern Finland this week, you can really feel the Spring starting strong finally. It felt extra special to catch a NOAA pass so close to the North pole.

2025-05-15 12:04:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-15 11:53:37

Transfer, Pennsylvania, United States

From station N3TTI in Transfer, PA. Ground Station using RTL-SDR and SDR++. Current weather was overcast. Antenna is V-dipole tuned to 137MHz. The audio is captured to a WAV file and then run through the APT Image processor at open-weather.community for image processing. Future updates will be automatic signal captures and automatic uploading to the Public Archive. Thanks to open-weather.community for hosting such a fantastic project!

2025-05-15 11:48:00

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

A hurried, last minute sounding, and an odd sense of sadness, given the impending decommissioning of the analogue NOAA satellites. Cool and dry conditions, amidst what is likely to be the driest Spring on record in the UK.

2025-05-15 11:45:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-15 11:41:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-15 11:38:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-05-15 09:28:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-15 08:34:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-15 08:30:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-15 06:14:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-14 23:30:51

Transfer, Pennsylvania, United States

Included processed image from noaa-apt showing mapping

2025-05-14 23:26:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-14 22:27:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-14 22:16:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-14 22:02:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-14 20:13:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-14 19:34:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-14 19:01:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-14 12:25:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-14 12:02:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-14 11:58:41

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

It is always pleasing to watch the signals of two NOAA satellites together, on the waterfall.

2025-05-14 11:54:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-14 09:17:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-14 06:39:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-13 23:38:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-13 22:57:00

Hangar, Ràdio Web MACBA, Foto Colectania

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-13 22:29:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-13 22:03:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-13 20:23:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-05-13 19:27:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-13 12:38:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-13 10:51:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-13 09:18:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-13 09:15:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-12 23:07:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-12 22:53:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-12 22:13:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

The soil at Goonown Growers is a clay loam so the limited rain over the past month has turned the top layer into a solid crust which cracks. This makes it hard to harvest crops like these leeks without damaging the base, but also cultivate the soil using the hand tools we rely on. We have reprioritised setting up irrigation systems as a result of this dry spring to ensure crop are well watered going into summer, reducing the likelihood of crops going to seed earlier or low yields due to plant stress. Goonown Growers

2025-05-12 19:53:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-12 19:29:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-12 19:28:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-12 12:51:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-12 12:32:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-12 12:20:14

Sasha Engelmann

Between Queens and Schilling Buildings, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

Another year, another Cosgrove Lecture at the Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway. Our speaker this year is Siobhan Angus who has written Camera Geologica, a book tracing the interrelations of geological materiality, social-environmental history and photographic image-making. I learn that in the 19th century, 20% of global silver went into photographic production processes. Gelatin, derived from animal bones, was so important for photographic practices that slaughterhouses were kept near Kodak and other major photo studios and facilities. Platinum printing processes were used to print and archive photographs of indigenous and global south communities, and the softer, ethereal aesthetics of platinum is therefore irrevocably linked to archives of communities at the threshold of ‘disappearance’. These are the traces of what Kathryn Yusoff calls ‘geological ghosts’ in historical visual cultures. Siobhan follows the work of Azoulay in stating that photography was not born in the 19th century, it was born in 1492 upon the threshold of the colonisation (and extraction from) the Americas.

2025-05-12 11:12:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-11 22:52:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-11 19:55:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-11 12:45:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-11 12:31:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-11 11:25:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-11 11:17:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-11 08:56:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-11 08:35:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-10 23:05:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-10 22:50:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-10 20:18:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-10 12:47:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-10 12:43:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-10 11:37:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-10 11:15:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-10 11:05:22

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

Our sunflower seedlings that we planted in mid March are now around 20cm high, and growing fast. Hackney Downs is scattered with blankets and some people are even in bathing suits, as the sun climbs toward noon. Later in the day at a playground with friends who have a three year old child, we make another 'sunflower' by spinning a yellow plastic bucket chair that has been filled with sand.

2025-05-10 09:22:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-09 23:18:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-09 23:03:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-09 22:52:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-09 22:51:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

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