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costal,

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fish,

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#NOKINGS,

in China,

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social relations,

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the,

on,

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orange monarch,

charred,

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endings,

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data drop outs,

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the first heat wave,

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restoration,

on my mind,

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drizzle,

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29.84Inhg,

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29.75Inhg,

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75F,

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us,

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clouds,

of,

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INCREDIBLE,

VITAL,

ESSENTIALS,

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debris,

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climate whiplash,

changing,

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high pressure,

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early flowering,

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confused,

failing,

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snow,

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Santa Ana winds,

Palisades fire,

uncontained,

Evacuate,

Windstorm,

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invisible updrafts,

vultures soaring,

quiet,

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interference,

adaptation,

suspicion,

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air quality alert,

inversion layer,

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new beginnings,

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1.5°C,

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rising,

cyclical,

loss,

fire,

climate reality,

huge,

bright,

underground,

hum of seeds,

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worms,

mulch,

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forgery,

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civil war,

common ground,

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temperature rising,

decay,

dirt,

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what you know,

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Democracy,

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Anthropocene,

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Atlantic cooling,

Amoc,

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everything,

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ten foot surge,

1000 year storm,

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people,

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light,

hotter,

learn,

radiate,

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floods,

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2025-05-21 13:08:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-21 10:27:54

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

Alongside these soundings I have been conducting another small project of my own - Nephoscope. Named after 19th century instruments for measuring the movements of clouds, my digital equivalent analyses these movements using the camera in my phone, using the data to then generate a form of poetry over the video feed. I like this idea of these two electronic instruments, satellite and nephoscope, working together to map and articulate the atmosphere along two different registers, and at two very different scales.

2025-05-21 09:05:40

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-20 21:29:54

Paulinengasse, Wien, Austria

"We used to swim in the river at this time of year" a friend laments. It's true that the unheated, outdoor public pools have been open for almost three weeks, but I doubt that they've had many visitors. As a Northerner, I am tempted by the icy rewards of cold swim but I know that this is not what most Viennese have in mind when they think of the Freibäder. From the other side of the Polar Jet Stream, my sister, Ray, writes that the UK has been dry and wam. It's so dry that the earth on the farm has cracked into irregular, tessellating shapes. Earlier in May, when visiting family in England I read sections of my mum's childhood diary. The diary had been left out to cheer-up my Gran who has dementia. Each entry opens with a single line about the weather. On this day in 1971, Hampshire was the "same as yesterday", which was "a bit windier". Two days prior, it had been "very sunny and warm", my mum's 12-year-old self wrote.

2025-05-21 09:09:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-21 10:51:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-20 22:41:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-20 23:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-20 22:16:32

Transfer, Pennsylvania, United States

Current weather conditions from my Home Weather System. Image is pretty bad tonight - a lot of noise. May need to relocate antenna.

2025-05-20 22:15:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-20 22:56:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-20 22:55:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-20 21:41:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-21 06:56:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-20 20:01:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-20 22:11:47

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-20 22:13:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-20 23:10:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-20 23:05:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-05-20 19:19:26

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-20 10:28:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-20 07:40:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-20 08:18:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-19 23:08:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-19 23:20:00

R9J9+C7F Dwingeloo, Netherlands, Europe

my first time doing this. i did my best and i might continue doing this for more pics ee

2025-05-19 22:24:30

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-19 19:45:34

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-19 23:18:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-05-19 19:46:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-19 11:24:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-19 12:43:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-19 10:41:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-19 08:25:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-19 12:27:41

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-19 11:16:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-19 09:24:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-18 20:52:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-18 22:48:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-18 23:31:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-05-18 11:37:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-18 12:54:23

N3TTI, United States

2025-05-18 11:03:11

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-18 11:14:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-18 08:44:11

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-18 08:55:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-18 12:44:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-18 12:09:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-17 23:16:00

Seattle, United States

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 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

2025-05-15 21:56:49

Michele Boulogne

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Finland

2025-05-15 18:32:00

Michele Boulogne

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Finland

2025-05-16 23:03:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-16 19:48:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-16 22:46:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-05-16 23:57:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-05-16 20:22:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

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 22:17:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-16 11:42:31

Transfer, Pennsylvania, United States

2025-05-16 11:43:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-16 13:10:08

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-05-16 11:28:52

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-05-16 11:32:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-16 11:51:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-15 22:04:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-15 23:16:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-15 22:32:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

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 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 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 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 18:56:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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 12:04:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-15 11:38:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-05-15 09:28:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-14 22:16:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-14 19:01:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-14 20:13:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-15 06:14:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-14 23:26:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-14 12:25:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-14 22:02:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-14 09:17:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-14 12:02:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-14 22:27:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-14 19:34:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

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

2025-05-13 22:29:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-13 23:38:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-13 19:27:00

Seattle, United States

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