2025-01-02 10:06:55
Pauline Woolley
The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK
UK
NOAA-19
A bright and crisp morning. Blue skies and frost underfoot. There is a stillness to the day and though it's already the 2nd January the new year feels like it's still slowly unfurling. Blue Tits and Robins interject with pips and chirps that are bumped off the musical score by the prehistoric caws and croaks of the corvids. The British Isles are clear. A rare sight indeed. 2 degrees celsius 82% humidity air pressure 1011 hPa/mb
2024-09-17 10:58:00
Soph Dyer
On a train and in my bed, Between Czechia and Austria
Between Czechia and Austria
NOAA-19
I wake groggy from the late arrival of my flood delayed train. Out of habit, I open my phone and load the news. Brown water fills the screen, punctured by branches, submerged buildings, and the fluorescent jackets of emergency workers. A climate scientist in Switzerland, Sonia Seneviratne, is quoted as saying that "most of the water vapour came from the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea, both of which have grown hotter as a result of human-induced climate breakdown". I share the article in our Signal group. Our intern, LJ, replies that this is a "vivid image". I agree, picturing the Mediterranean falling onto Vienna, in an inversion of sky and sea. It is a literal image of our world turning upside down.