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29.84Inhg,

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INCREDIBLE,

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air quality alert,

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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

2025-05-09 22:50:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-09 22:05:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-09 19:31:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-09 13:00:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-09 11:51:30

Steve Engelmann

Tongva Park, Santa Monica, California, USA, Earth, United States

This satellite pass had a slightly better elevation than the earlier one. The marine layer is starting to fade. The pass was captured from Tongva Park (in honor of the indigenous peoples of coastal southern California). During most of the satellite capture a woman was loudly ranting at a police officer. Sometimes I feel like ranting too. Under the topic of "government efficiency" defunding the EPA's Energy Star program is the latest casualty. The program costs the government $32 million, while saving American consumers $40 billion annually. Maybe I missed something on efficiency, but that sounds like for every dollar the government spends on the program, consumers benefit $350. California's goal of selling only new electric vehicles by 2035 is also up in the air. And the defunding of NOAA may also result in NOAA 18 being turned off. From space, everything seems so peaceful. I guess appearances may deceive.

2025-05-09 11:50:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-09 08:11:58

Steve Engelmann

Sears, Santa Monica, California, United States

The call it May Gray (and then later June Gloom). It is a typical marine layer that hugs the coastline in late spring/early summer in southern California. The clouds usually "burn off" by noon and return in the evening. I found a nice spot on a bridge near the Santa Monica pier. The 10 fwy passes under and the historic Sears building stands nearby. The high school I teach at partially burned in the Palisades Fire. The Sears building has become our temporary school site. The sidewalk on the bridge is narrow. A number of students and teachers squeezed by as I was doing the recording. Only one teacher paused to ask me what I was doing.

2025-05-08 23:31:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-08 23:02:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-08 21:51:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-08 19:33:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-08 13:09:40

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

Last week was the hottest May day on record in the UK, today is decidedly cooler and greyer. A reminder that Spring is always an unstable threshold, like any season.

2025-05-08 11:43:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-08 11:33:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-08 08:34:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-08 07:44:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-08 06:00:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-07 23:44:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-07 23:15:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-07 22:04:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-07 21:49:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-07 19:18:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-07 12:15:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-07 11:48:24

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

Last night, at an event called We Are Not Numbers at the Southbank Centre, Palestinian writer Ahmed Alnaouq and artist Malak Mattar shared stories from their personal lives and those of their family members in Gaza. Malak described an event of being denied border crossing into Israel for the purpose of showing her paintings in an exhibition in Jerusalem when she was just a teenager, and realising for the first time that she was 'in a cage'. Ahmed spoke about how writing and storytelling helped him emerge from a depression after his 23-year old brother was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2014. Both spoke about the sometimes visible, sometimes invisible barriers to speaking about Palestine in the UK. In Palestine, Malak said, "I would never be barred from speaking at my own exhibition". Yet she spoke about countless experiences of being silenced in the UK, whether in arts institutions or in public forums. Ahmed added that UK institutions are so concerned about being 'neutral' that they implicitly support Israel's genocide. For me, hearing these claims, especially from Palestinian artists whose family members have been killed in the current genocide and in previous Israeli assaults on life in Gaza, made the conditions of speaking, voicing and expressions of mere humanity in the UK more palpable than ever before.

2025-05-07 11:42:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-07 09:00:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-07 08:44:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-07 08:39:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-07 06:24:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-06 23:57:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-06 23:28:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-06 22:17:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-06 22:02:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-06 21:48:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-06 20:22:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-06 19:10:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-06 12:05:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-06 12:00:00

Hangar, Ràdio Web MACBA, Foto Colectania

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-06 11:30:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-06 06:48:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-05 22:56:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-05 22:29:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-05 22:04:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-05 22:01:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-05 22:01:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-05 19:36:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-05 12:40:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-05 12:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-04 23:54:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-04 22:13:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-04 21:00:00

2025-05-04 19:38:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-04 19:38:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-04 16:38:00

2025-05-04 11:04:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-04 07:48:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-04 06:04:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-03 22:40:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-03 22:26:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-03 21:28:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-03 19:22:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-03 12:33:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-03 11:03:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-03 08:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-02 22:53:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-02 22:39:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-02 21:53:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-02 12:46:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-02 11:15:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-02 09:06:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-01 22:55:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-01 22:52:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-01 22:06:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-01 13:02:16

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

This image was gathered as part of a class workshop I ran today, as a simple way of bearing out the radio networks that underpin much of our contemporary environment.

2025-05-01 13:02:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-01 11:31:45

James, Fer, Paola

Goldsmiths University Greens, United Kingdom

Sunny and clear, occasional fine clouds. Faulty hardware.

2025-05-01 11:31:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-01 11:26:00

tally, ayesha, ayşe

tally: "it is a very hot day in london. my min is blow by this "citizen science"." ayesha: "it is hot, we see italy, climate crisis is in the blood" Ayşe:"the screen is blinded by the sun, I sweat the sun, the grass is greener under the sun, and the climate crisis is disproportional to justice"

2025-05-01 11:24:00

Hana, Iker, Silvia

New Cross, London, United Kingdom

We made the mistake of starting and stopping the recording sporadically. So this image represents the individual recordings spliced together using Audition.

2025-05-01 11:23:00

Prajvi Mandhani

Goldsmiths College Green, Lewisham, London

Lewisham, London

Recording taken by Ravza, Lene, and Prajvi. Lene holding the antenna. 22, mostly cloudy

2025-05-01 11:23:00

Prajvi, Lene, Ravza

Goldsmiths College Green, Lewisham, London

Lewisham, London

Recording taken by Ravza, Lene, and Prajvi. Lene holding the antenna. 22, mostly cloudy

2025-05-01 11:23:00

Prajvi, Lene, Ravza

Goldsmiths College Green, Lewisham, London

Lewisham, London

Recording taken by Ravza, Lene, and Prajvi. Lene holding the antenna. 22, mostly cloudy

2025-05-01 11:21:51

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

This image was gathered as part of a class workshop I ran today, as a simple way of bearing out the radio networks that underpin much of our contemporary environment.

2025-05-01 11:21:38

Manu Sancho, Omar Ferwati

Goldsmiths University, London, UK

It was a very sunny day in London, it was 28º

2025-05-01 11:20:01

Bernal Pérez, Florence To, Laura Palmer, David Birkin, Debora Swistun

College Green, Goldsmiths University, London, United Kingdom

The weather was summy, clear, 27 degrees celcius. Capturing the waves started with white noise then eevntually after 5 minutes it became clear and sharp. Image captured from 11:18 - 11:26. It was a collective exercise with open weather community at Goldsmiths Univerity in the green.

2025-05-01 11:20:00

first time recording weather images sunny day in london amazing teachers, sensitive knowledge, embodied physics

2025-05-01 11:18:54

Giorgia Chiarion, Delphine Tomes, Riccardo Rizzetto

Goldsmiths College Green, Lewisham, London, United Kingdom

it was very hot and muggy but also dry? much excitement as we heard the sounds of the satellite broadcast. simultaneous conversations in Spanish Italian and English. Curious fellow students and researchers stopped by to experience what we were capturing. we can see all of England some of Wales but Scotland and Northern Ireland were covered by a cloud_static_nebulous_void we can see where all 3 of us were born!

2025-05-01 11:18:19

Sasha Milonova & Julia Nueno

London - Goldsmiths, United Kingdom

it's the hottest labour day that we have on record it was our first time capturing satellite images in our image we can see sunny London and cloudy Madrid

2025-05-01 11:15:48

Laura, Aya & Tom

College Green, Goldsmiths, New Cross, United Kingdom

The hottest May 1st the UK has ever had at 28 degrees celsius

2025-05-01 08:15:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-30 23:07:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-30 23:05:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-30 23:04:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-30 19:43:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-30 11:56:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-30 07:53:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-30 06:08:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-04-29 23:20:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

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