NOAA-15 – open-weather

2025-08-31 17:10:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-30 18:53:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-30 10:57:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-29 08:59:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-28 07:03:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-27 18:32:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-26 08:37:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-26 18:58:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-26 11:02:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-25 20:17:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-25 09:03:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-24 20:44:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-24 16:53:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-24 09:31:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-23 17:19:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-23 08:16:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-19 19:36:00

Centre for People, Place and Planet (AU)

Perth, Australia

Too attached to 15/19/18...was so sad to see only static noise images. That was it (for now?).

2025-08-22 19:56:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-22 08:43:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-22 08:37:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-22 19:03:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-22 11:07:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-21 09:04:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-20 19:34:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-20 19:10:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-20 08:14:35

Steve Engelmann

Santa Monica, California, United States

Today NOAA-15 was flying over with an 86° elevation. From recent posts on Open-Weather I was prepared for what I might receive, but I thought I would try regardless. As I was watching the sun rise over Santa Monica, we were witnessing the sunset of NOAA-15. But with any reputable seance it was a communal gathering. Several of my students joined me and persisted through 8 minutes and 34 seconds of static. NOAA-15, 18 and 19 shall live in my dreams.

2025-08-20 16:58:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-19 20:14:04

Sasha Engelmann

Donostia / San Sebastián , Spain

NOAA-15 You were launched on a Wednesday in 1998 on a rocket called Titan impossible heat fuelling an ascent into low earth orbit Your launch site named after an air force general was 15 minutes’ drive from the town ‘Lompoc’ or, for Chumash peoples lumpo’o̥ ‘in the cheeks’ where placenames are bodies When you entered space I was nine playing soccer in Lompoc County skinny legs trying and failing to curl a ball into a net You fell silent on a Tuesday in 2025, impossible heat raging in wildfires below a night-moth beat the air swirling particles I know it’s ’empty’ but I listen to your frequency cold static filling a void of recognition

2025-08-20 06:05:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-20 07:12:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-19 19:36:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-19 08:37:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-19 18:56:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-19 09:52:56

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

Endings are always messy – only in fiction can they be tied up neatly and beautifully, following a clear, timetabled arc towards a point where all actions are resolved, accompanied by a pithy epilogue that captures it all with suitable profundity. This time last week was meant to be the end of NOAA 15, and yet I nonetheless manage a recording this morning. I was not going to do so, but a brief glance at a Facebook group suggested that today is indeed the day that NOAA 15 will, at long last, be shut down. If the timings are true, then this morning’s pass over Europe will be the very final one. Breakfast in hand, I race to set up the antenna and make an IQ recording, a minute or two into the pass. It has rained, very softly, during the night, and the cool grey air feels more like mid-September – matching the appearance of the foliage around me. I am glad for the rain, but it is, of course, nowhere near enough to make up for this desiccating summer weather. I can still smell smoke from the ongoing Langdale fire. I am not a good writer, and I am not good at beautiful, thoughtful expression more broadly. No great poetry flows from my pen – though, I also admit, I am sometimes wary of the idea that it should be sought after, for it can belie situations that are far more quotidian, and are actually best recorded as such. The reality is that I was rather irritated with having to rapidly assemble my clumsy antenna, hook everything up, and try to record the pass amidst the damp and the overall rush of my morning routine. The antenna fell over twice, and I had to keep wiping the drizzle off my computer. I had nowhere near enough focused energy to meditate as the moment felt like it deserved, and instead I hurriedly finished the recording, disassembled my equipment, and with mild relief got back to the dozen or so tasks ahead of me – none of which have any significance at all, but which needed doing. Endings invariably happen at inconvenient times, rarely making their presence known predictably beforehand, and trying to offer a capstone statement amidst the flow of time can too readily underplay the mess of the actual moment. What else is there to write, then? Perhaps the Facebook post was wrong – maybe NOAA 15 will ring out later today, perhaps even tomorrow? I suspect not – the declared timings make sense. In any case, the closeout of NOAA 15/18/19 does not, of course, mark the end of weather observations from space – there is a veritable zoo of orbital artefacts that are diligently staring at the transforming Earth. I am currently investigating the costly challenge of trying to record some of their signals – a shift in technology and practice that mirrors worldly shifts in computing more broadly, from the faintly miraculous sound of the analogue APT downlink, and all the quirky openness it invites, to the much more slick, stratified, and expensive regimes required to interface with contemporary satellite systems. The latter are so much more capable, but are vastly more forbidding, and offer fewer windows for non-professional users to access them, whether for science or indeed art. The digital environment these satellites now feed into has so much more data coming through overall, underpinned by sprawling data centres, supercomputer clusters, and AI routines, but my sense is that it is not a richer or better place for it. I have now packed the antenna away in my office on campus. I won’t be trying again to listen to NOAA 15, absent of any 'official' confirmation of its impending shutdown. Ultimately, short of a contingency (like last week, in fact), this morning has been enough for me, and enough for this practice. It is not the technology that I am invested in, but the world that it records, and that still turns anew. Writing this at my desk, I am thinking now of all the weather that I have observed both below and amidst. I am thinking of how every moment of my life has been shaped and shifted by the presence of processes far beyond my minuscule registers of being. I think of what it means to “be” in this ocean of air, and what it means to attend to it. Weather satellites are instruments for paying attention, for trying to parse the flows of the Earth into markings and then into signs – a language all of its own. I am reflecting on how indeed everything can be read: every flow and every eddy and every sigh of wind and rain and cloud, every flare of sunlight and pall of haze, every thermal and every wave bar, every ripple of energy running through every leaf in every rustling tree. There are signals and signs all around, and I shall be listening and watching – to know them is to know one is alive in the world.

2025-08-19 11:29:34

Hospitalfield, Arbroath, United Kingdom

After the pass earlier this morning I sat on the tower for some time, listening to the birds, writing my weather note. Looking at the images, I often feel it's strange how my ears can filter so much of the static: I could hear NOAA-15 for much longer than the image might suggest. Watching the pips of yellow on CubicSDR's waterfall display, it was clearly weaker than I was expecting. I'm left wondering if it was the effect of the antenna, or if the satellite was starting to power down. Ross appears from the small blue door at the top of the spiral staircase. We figure we might as well take down the v-dipole from the balustrade, and unwind the RF cable from the staircase. When that's done it's not long until this pass. Ordinarily I wouldn't bother with such a low pass (usually saying 'it'll come back around') but I decide to have one last listen with the turnstile to say farewell to NOAA-15. NOAA-15 is coming from the north, reaching a max elevation of 13 degrees to the north west, which is pretty much exactly where the lightning rod is. So between that and the previous image my expectations are low for clarity, but that's not and is never the point. After the joys and buzz of passes on the beach with friends and the summer festival, being up here alone feels peaceful. I'm happy to pick up an intermittent signal amid the noise, moving my body with the trajectory of the satellite, searching with the antenna for one last time. On my way out I chat to the Hospitalfield team about endings, archives, and memory – and although there will be no new images from these satellites, still orbiting silently, there's lots of reflection to come.

2025-08-19 09:51:32

Hospitalfield, Arbroath, United Kingdom

It's overcast. On the way up the drive I bump into Ross mowing. Just the edges, the long grass and wild plants are left to grow, turning to seed. Leaves on trees looking just a little past their best. He says it's early, this turn to the autumnal. Up on the tower I can see him and another person down below working near the greenhouse. In the other direction there’s just a thin line of sunlight bouncing off the horizon out at sea. The wind is lightly rippling the puddles in the tarp on the roof. I haven't been up here for a while. The antenna has lost its gleam, tarnished after its months exposed to weather. I check the setup is working by drifting through the radio spectrum. I land on what I find out is radio north Angus. The presenter likes to play music by local musicians only. Montrose born and bred etc. She says we need to shout about Angus more. She says, Angus is probably not well known unless you're in the potato trade. I laugh and re-tune to 137.62 megahertz. I'm sitting cross legged on the tarp on top of the roof, my laptop is nestled on top of my laptop. The antenna here hasn't been receiving for a month or so - since the AGS stopped working with the WiFi and it proved hard to fix. Instead I've plugged the set up I use manually into the v-dipole. I feel like I'm sitting listening - statically - to the ‘static’ for ages, I'm used to holding and moving around with the antenna. It feels quite solemn. I hear the faint beeps and expect the sound to burst into full rhythm - butt it remains faint amid the noise. It really feels like NOAA-15 is fading out. After I decide I won't hear any more of the pass I sit up on the tower for a bit with the static ringing in my ears. While I've been sitting still, I've been thinking of all the places I've taken my turnstile antenna to and listened to these satellites. The familiar sound has been a sort of rooting wherever I’ve ended up. A sort of constant. I've listened in fields, beaches, leaning out of windows, at old observatories, in parks and some spots I'm sure I'm forgetting. In the day and in the night. Here, I think again of the telescope down in the store room that is thought to have been used on the tower in the Victorian period. Shifting technologies, shifting time, people, but perhaps something connected. I look up, squinting. The sun bursts through cracks in the cloud, bringing me back into the day.

2025-08-19 18:42:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-19 10:45:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-18 19:21:38

Augarten, Wien, Austria

Adult: "What are you waiting for?" Child: "Outer space!"

2025-08-19 06:30:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-18 09:40:19

Sasha Engelmann

On the phone earlier today, T's mom asks if we have been affected by the fires in Spain. For us, looking out the window into a salty, oceanic cloud, fire could not seem farther away. Yet a quick news search reveals that for the past few days, while we have been avoiding most news media on holiday, wildfires have been raging across Northwest Spain, driven by a heatwave that has seen temperatures reach over 45 degrees Celsius in many regions. The Basque Country appears protected by the Cantabrian and Basque Mountains, which extend westward from the Pyrenees. This year alone, about 343,000 hectares (847000 acres) have burned across Spain, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) - close to double the amount from the last year. '40,000 acres' is still etched into my mind from watching my home neighourhood burn in the LA Fires of January this year. I choose not to look up how many acres have burned in California this year, as I fear the number would rival that of Spain. In a monastery at the top of a mountain, I notice a repeated four-part symbol, and learn that it represents the four elements, and is a symbol of the Basque Country more widely, found in myth and spiritual traditions. Each of the four elements had a representative female goddess. Mari, the goddess of earth whose story predates Christianity, is the most powerful of the four. Walking along clay-rich trails, along humid ravines and against cliffs, this makes intuitive sense, here.

2025-08-18 09:04:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-18 19:22:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-17 18:50:21

East Haven, Angus, United Kingdom

It's been another hot day. We cycle along the coast from Arbroath to East Haven beach as a group of four, grateful for the breeziness. I'm bringing the antenna with me to make the most of this borrowed time NOAA-15 has been having, and with company keen to listen. The sky gets cloudier as we arrive, just as most people are leaving the beach, dragging paddle boards and picnic blankets away. Here we meet another pair, who quickly get caught up in hearing about NOAA-15's imminent pass. The tide is quite far out, but on it's way back in, and we've got time for a quick and quiet swim. I was in the sea closer to the town this morning at high tide, when the sun was stronger, floating ontop of the salty water and squinting with the glints catching on the waves. The water is warmer and darker for this evening's dook, or it's the effect of the air feeling cooler in comparison. We hear curlews, oyster catchers and gulls, and as I emerge from diving under am fooled by my friends joking they saw a dolphin. The sea is pretty clean with flecks of sea lettuce, laver and gutweed floating (I think: I've been trying to get better at identifying seaweeds). East Haven was first recorded as 'Stinchendehavene' in 1214, also known as Stink Haven, I believe on account of the stench of rotting seaweed. These days it's well looked after by a local environmental group. We emerge from the water in various states of cold - one person has Raynaud's syndrome that effects their hands, another is prone to catching the shivers. We layer up and share a few snacks, in Scotland this is called a 'chittery-bite' or a 'shivery-bite': something small and sweet to stop your teeth chattering. Back on the dunes we set up our ground station, seeing what local radio we can pick up before NOAA-15 is due to arrive. We bop to some dance tunes, maybe on Tay FM, find Radio 2 and a few unknown channels: one broadcasting dour Christian sermons, the other a radio play. Pointing the antenna out to sea NOAA-15 comes in, and we pass the antenna between four pairs of keen (and cold) hands. The other two are content with watching and listening, chatting and laughing among the group's glee. A wasp lands on the antenna and stays a while. It's a long pass, the sky wide and open. With it's end our group disperses, most are cycling onward to Dundee. Aaron and I turn back to Arbroath, into a bit of a headwind as a thick haar comes down over the town ahead of us. Rabbits dash out in the fields as they hear us coming, and small birds emerge from the gorse that narrows the path.

2025-08-18 08:42:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-18 19:08:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-18 06:56:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-17 19:13:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-17 19:29:33

Madison, United States

The last transmission of NOAA 15, Thank you for 24 years of service! (my father asked me about there is no clouds in the sky, i told him that the satellite is going to be decommissioned tomorrow)

2025-08-17 18:52:00

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

This weekend has been marked by eco-anxiety. There have been news reports that this summer could well be the driest on record for the UK, and the tinder-box conditions have resulted, here in Yorkshire, in a devastating fire across Langdale Moor (part of the wider North Yorkshire moorlands). 5 sq. km in size, ecologists have mourned the terrible losses in wildlife and vegetation it has inflicted, warning us that it could take decades, centuries, even millennia to fully recover what has been lost. Time I rather suspect it will not have. Smoke from the fire has been hanging low over the city of York, around 35 miles away. It has affected atmospheric visibility significantly, shifting the late summer light into a deeper band of gold - more akin to what I expect in early Autumn. On that point, I've noticed the leaves are turning brown and berries and apples are ripening rapidly, which is another sign of the ecological stresses caused by this relentlessly dry summer. My flight on Saturday was marked initially by some poor visibility - the photo provided has been cleaned significantly, but the conditions at height were noticeably dark. This was a clear result of the rising smoke from the fire - looking in the direction of the moor from launch height at 2,500ft, I could not see anything at all, other than a thick grey pall, many miles across. In contrast with this sobering sight was the fact this was also a flight where I got to share the air with the local Red Kites, who flew above, below, and alongside the glider, as we took advantage of a slowly drifting thermal to stay aloft. It is always a wonderful experience to be alongside birds in their atmospheric element, and it certainly gives pause for thought, given that Red Kites were persecuted to near-extinction in the UK. I note all of this as I think this image of the fires while thermalling alongside a recovering species cuts across many ways of thinking and being in the world as it is enveloped in climatic and ecological crises - of their origins, ongoing impacts, and what modes of kinship we might somehow try to foster and sustain in the face of it. The differing modes of agency that drive these activities and events often resist and recalibrate one another, but I want to believe, as the example of the Red Kites shows that generative, maybe even reparative gestures are still possible. The climate scientist Kate Marvel has characterised a need for courage, rather than hope - as the resolve to do what is right, even without the assurance of a good ending. My reserves of courage have been at a particularly low ebb this weekend, confronted by the scale of the Langdale fire and the visceral unease of catching smoke on the wind, but I know I must try all the same. The air has been mercifully clearer today, but my sounding of NOAA 15 was as messy and unsatisfactory as they have all been as of late. Away from the open spaces of the University campus, the signal is brittle and faint. I've reflected before on noise as a representation of the more-than-human agencies at play in the world, and such agencies are, of course, a key reason why I can still sound NOAA 15 at all - a malfunction aboard NOAA 19 interrupting the smooth decommissioning schedule and demanding immediate attention, leaving NOAA 15 to carry on, if only for a few more days. This is another instance of how agencies beyond our own often disrupt or forestall our best-laid plans, and as the world changes ever more, such contingencies will become not only more unavoidable, at every scale of daily activity, but will be increasingly insurmountable. Courage, again, is needed in the search for more thoughtful imaginaries, approaches, and ways of being. NOAA 15 is due to be decommissioned this week - I do not know if I will catch it again, but, as with all things, I shall try.

2025-08-17 18:49:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-11 13:37:32

COSMOS Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-08-17 19:48:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-14 00:08:46

Madison, United States

I live in a pretty secluded area and this is one of my best downlink from NOAA 15 yet!

2025-08-17 09:06:14

Sasha Engelmann

This morning a baby rabbit and a chicken escaped their houses, causing a chorus of exclamations like “Mira Mira!!” and “Rapido!!” from the group of small children playing around the farm. I had thought the site of me standing with an antenna in the garden would attract some attention, but the rabbits and chickens were far more important. In this ten-day holiday I have been avoiding most news from the outside world, focusing on the immediate needs of rest, and conversations with T about the future- yet I have woken up most days having dreamed of Palestine. The Basque Country is full of symbols of Palestine solidarity, from 'Palestine aurrera!' to flags draped from seaside windows. Yet my dreams are full of the feeling that a draped flag or a scrawled sentence of support is far, far too little - has been far too little for too long. I spend some of my time on this holiday building a Palestine geographies 'reader', an attempt, with two other geographers, one of them Palestinian, to make an open access, growing resource for thinking and remembering the expansive geographies of Palestine, including not only Gaza but the post-48 diaspora. I wonder if, like a draped flag, the role of this 'reader' will be symbolic, or if it will make possible other forms of reckoning and remembering. In 'A Map, the Sea, and Many Olive Trees', Elia Ayoub recounts how his grandfather was forced from his hometown in Haifa to Lebanon in 1948. He describes the systematic 'self-defencing' or obliteration of Palestinian settlements within and beyond Gaza, including importantly olive groves. "Many Olive trees are older than 1948. The Israelis must believe that these Olive trees have seen too much. Why else have they spent decades destroying them? Why do they still do it?". Elia concludes the essay: "You grow up a little bit. You're 34 years/centuries old now. You're already older than many Olive trees because Israel has been cutting those down, you see. That makes you an elder. An elder is someone who is older than the Olive trees"

2025-08-16 20:13:33

Sasha Engelmann

On the seaside earlier today, we observed a cliffside made of hundreds of striated rock layers. They followed each other closely, tracing back hundreds of millions of years in their gentle curves. One line was very thin and black, and represented the mass extinction event of 66 million years ago, during which 75% of marine mammals and other life forms perished. The layer was found to contain a very high amount of Iridium, otherwise very rare on earth, which corroborates the theory that a giant meteor caused the mass extinction. This is the meteor that fell in what is now the Gulf of New Mexico, creating the conditions for massive deposits of fossil hydrocarbons that are exploited by oil companies today. Though I was already convinced of the ‘fractal’ quality of such histories, whereby ancient ‘catastrophes’ spiral in self-similar yet changeable patterns into contemporary times, seeing the mass extinction event inscribed in striations of rock made this idea even more palpable.

2025-08-14 09:45:31

Sasha Engelmann

A lush green countryside of pines, vegetable fields and long grasses fades into the morning haze. One can barely make out the outline of a mountain ridge that must not be far away. A rooster has been crowing all morning, and a community of rabbits thump their hind legs, signaling inexplicable warnings to each other. Zumaia is a small town in the Basque Country in northern Spain, situated in a ‘geopark’ with one of the worlds longest continuous rock strata. It is a landscape unlike any I have ever seen, sparsely populated, and made of sharp peaks rather than rolling seaside hills. August temperatures don’t reach higher than 28 degrees, despite heatwaves occurring nearby in France and inland Spain. It is as if the landscape is wrapped in a marine blanket that literally dampens temperature extremes, while making it difficult to dry a bathing suit from one day to the next. NOAA 15's life has been 'extended' for around another week, but as I already said my 'goodbyes' in France a couple days ago, this extra time feels surreal - like a time warp or window that may collapse or stretch in unpredictable ways.

2025-08-17 08:26:28

Michele Boulogne

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Netherlands

First colder day after an historic heatwave above Europe; Thought I would catch a bit of NOAA 15 from my balcony before the end. It's only 7 minutes but always quite magical to do.

2025-08-17 07:22:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-16 19:39:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-16 19:15:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-16 08:18:15

Steve Engelmann

Venice Pier, United States

The summer in southern California has been unusually cool, and today was another rare overcast August morning. An anomalous high pressure system has been stationed over the northwest Pacific resulting in strong oceanic upwelling along the California coast. The cool water has a chilling effect along the coast. Not to worry, further inland, heat records are being set. With NOAA 18 and 19 fading away, I was hoping to capture NOAA 15 passing over at 85°. I went to the Venice Pier with unobstructed views. The pier was busy on a Saturday morning with many recreational fishers casting lines. While there wasn't much of a swell there were surfers in the water and tourists enjoying the view.

2025-08-16 19:18:12

Arbroath, United Kingdom

Another inside/ outside capture, this time poking the antenna out of the upstairs window. I've been outside a lot - if these notes make it seem I barely leave the house - and missed the other passes. The satellite is passing more to the east, so I'm on the other side of the house. It's a bit awkward, my arms get tired holding the antenna out beyond the building, swapping hands often and holding tight. The window sills are deep because of the old stone walls so I'm leaning quite a lot. Crows, seagulls and wood pigeons take turns at perching on the aerials across the road. There's a clear, cloudless blue sky and sun hits the rooftops. It makes the red sandstone glow a bright burnt orange. The storm has passed but until mid-afternoon the town was covered in a low cloud or haar that felt it could burn off any moment. When we were down at the beach, finding shell riddled hagstones and quartz veined pebbles, it was quiet. The sleepy feeling of early morning pushed through until the sun and the crowds came bursting out. It's the last weekend of the school holidays. I think I caught the sun on my face while cycling back along the coast. I'm quite happy to be inside now. We've had Joe to stay, who keenly remembered the satellite's sounds from working on a audio piece with me for an exhibition in 2021. It merged my daily recordings with extracts from personal weather diaries found in the Scottish Meteorological Society archives - made close to when I started listening to these orbiting bodies. Things (that) come back around. We talk about space junk. Archives. We have other conversations about silence, how it can be so loud, so felt.

2025-08-16 20:15:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-16 17:03:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-16 18:35:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-16 07:49:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-16 06:10:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-14 19:45:03

Arbroath , United Kingdom

Back garden NOAA-15 listen again. Sky a flat grey. Fairly still. Another break in the drizzle. Neighbour does pop out this time. 'Don't let me get in the way of your signal'. Surprisingly few questions.

2025-08-15 08:42:00

Seattle, United States

After weeks of excessive heat and smoke, today's image from NOAA 15 captures the arriving atmospheric river, bringing much needed rain amidst a record-setting drought in the Western US and Washington, and the first hints of fall on the horizon. At this point, each additional day of decoding a transmission from the one remaining program satellite is a gift.

2025-08-15 19:00:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-15 08:21:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-15 18:47:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-15 10:50:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-15 09:20:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-08-15 06:35:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-14 20:09:39

Arbroath, United Kingdom

The storm is not long passed. A muggy day, building to the break. Two hours of thunder, darkened skies and flashes of lightning. I watch my friends in nearby Dundee share pictures of walnut sized hail, as the streets flash flood. Here, the hail is less extreme. I was going to listen to an earlier pass but heeded warnings of lightning - the air had felt static. Now, it's calm and everything is soaking. I'm just at the back door again, laptop inside, antenna outside. Leaves are splayed widely after being pummeled by the downpour. My neighbour's back door is also open and I wonder what they'd say if they popped out now. The sound of NOAA-15 merges with the dance music on the radio in my kitchen. I look up at the clouds, patchy, the sun is a low orange glow. The neighbour's aerial pokes out from the building. There's something about the switch in scale that always hits me, from my domestic interiority to beyond, from below to above the clouds. I come inside just in time: I write this the rain starts again, straight and heavy. Catching these moments, I'm feeling melancholic, thinking on the thinking and writing this practice has sparked, the sociality of it. The influence of doing this over the last 5 years I find hard to measure.

2025-08-14 09:08:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-14 08:52:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-14 08:47:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-14 11:16:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-14 07:01:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-13 19:18:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-13 18:54:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-12 06:52:00

Centre for People, Place and Planet (AU)

Perth, Australia

Third manual signal capturing and best so far. Make-shift manual weather station. Behind the walls of the gallery, we wait for the weathercasting.

2025-08-13 08:32:15

Rooseveltplatz, Wien, Austria

On the way to work I pull over to listen for NOAA-15, which is transmitting despite having been scheduled to be decommissioned yesterday. I set-up my ground station opposite the Votivkirche and brace myself for lots of radio frequency noise. The small park I am in is ringed by tall buildings and traffic, beneath is a subterranean car park and construction site for one of the city's new subway lines. I am also encircled by trams, whose overhead power lines surely leak radio waves. Against the odds, I hear the familiar, piercing, beep beep of NOAA-15. In a Facebook group, I had read comments that said its signal was weak, yet it rises above the radio noise. The experience is like listening to someone who has come back from dead. NOAA-15 is meant to be silent, stuck in lifeless orbital decay. Yet since NOAA-19 developed an 'anomaly' and stopped transmitting on Sunday, the satellite's decommissioning has been postponed by a week. In other words, it’s surviving on borrowed time. As I receive its transmission, I imagine that in a last act of resistance NOAA-19 has sabotaged the planned decomissioning, taking control of its timeline and gifting NOAA-15 a extra week of life.

2025-08-13 07:27:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-12 19:43:00

Seattle, United States

This may be one of the last images captured by our AGS in Seattle, which was decoded at dusk from NOAA 15, and it happens to be on one of our hottest days of the year, with a sun setting behind a large plume of wildfire smoke blowing into the Puget Sound from the Bear Gulch fire burning on the Olympic Peninsula. It is a stunningly striking and somber sunset, as we also witness the sunset on a program of instruments that have allowed use to capture and observe data in real time on the ground, all the way from LEO. It seems only appropriate that during these days of increasing heat and smoke are the times when we turn off these instruments to fly blindly into a future of anthropogenic climate change...

2025-08-12 19:20:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-11 20:44:58

Sasha Engelmann

Miroir d'eau, Bordeaux, France

A waning, red moon; a mirroir de l’eau; a dying satellite. One of the last passes I may capture from a NOAA satellite echoes the very first on a beach in Cornwall in 2019. There, standing in the intertidal zone, I read an early version of the poem ‘satellite séance’ while receiving a live satellite image. The 'mirroir' in which I am standing today is a point of séance for many other bodies and reflections, especially given the 37 degree heat. NOAA-15, by far the oldest of the three remaining analogue satellites (having transmitted for 27 years, 2 months and 29 days) is the last to send a 137 MHz radio signal to the ground. Most of all, I am amazed at the way this project has gathered people inside and around it. Since open-weather launched in 2020, hundreds of people have built DIY radio antennas, tracked NOAA satellites, and received images, each time adding to the sense that seeing the earth and its weather through distant orbiting machines does matter, and in ways we, as practitioners, cannot foreclose or forefeit. In practising together, we opened and expanded what 'remote sensing' means. I am clumsy in my sandals as I stretch my antenna to the sky, my centre of gravity warped by the small human in my belly who is growing every day. I wonder if she can hear the ‘tick tock’ of NOAA-15 amidst the laughter of small children skipping on the ‘mirroir’, the rush of evening taxis, and the boats on the Garonne. My partner smiles as a toddler in a bright pink swimsuit stops her skipping right in front of me, plants her feet and stares. I hope, in some small way, the passing moment we share inspires a curiosity, a story.

2025-08-12 19:22:00

Carnoustie beach, near the golf course , United Kingdom

Even at the end, a joy to introduce friends to this practice. We listen to NOAA-15 on the beach, after an evening swim. It's been a hot day, another UK heatwave. Sun going down, tide going out. Eager questions. I explain I'm a bit worried we won't hear anything. I'm also a bit worried about getting sand in my laptop. Pointing the antenna straight out to sea, after the static we grin as the rhythm comes through, steady, strong. We talk about the feeling of listening to the satellite and its likeness to jumping in the sea. Feeling small, insignificant, located, connected.

2025-08-12 19:20:37

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

2025-08-12 20:18:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-08-11 19:05:46

Augarten, Austria

2025-08-12 09:34:12

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

One last call - Almost surprised to hear a signal come through. The ringing music of the APT cascading down the waterfall. A warm, heavy atmosphere in the grey morning - new discussions of drought in the news. How does one write for an ending such as this? NOAA 19 is a source of static now, but the older 15 carries on - officially on its last day. I want to write something that feels up to the occasion, something that draws together the technology, the politics, the science, the history, the Earth itself - to acknowledge the conjunction of processes, human and more-than-human, that come together for an instrument such as this, and which will flow into new configurations after today. I don’t trust myself for this task - preferring to let the clouds above, the passing wind, and the (unsteady) antenna, do the speaking for me. Their particular registers of being are enough for this moment - and, of course, our attentiveness towards them. Perhaps this is what sounding out the NOAA satellites has meant to me over the past year or so. We have myriad technologies of attention, and modes of being attentive that are bound up with them. Each satellite pass is a duration that requires a particular act of observing to sustain - a temporary entanglement of various artefacts and processes and practices that all must hold. I’ve been reminded afresh that satellite images are no straightforward “snapshots” of the planet, but always emerge from a period of sitting with it, as the satellite passes and the signal downloads and the picture builds. The data, of course, is then woven into a far bigger durational image, but the act of attention required for each pass feels significant in its own right - as a manifestation of the kinds of attentiveness and being with the world that is needed more than ever. There is another NOAA 15 pass in 10 minutes, very low angle, 10 degrees. I will listen, but may not record. The act of listening, and reflecting, and observing, is perhaps enough. I always wanted to get involved in gathering satellite signals, but the Open Weather project gave me the inspiration and guidance to do so - for that I am very grateful.

2025-08-12 09:40:54

Arbroath, United Kingdom

Left it too late to get up the road in time. Antenna quickly stuck out the back door to the house. It's already warm, a close clammy morning, even though the sun hasn't reached the garden yet. A partial image. On the news this morning, wildfires in Scotland, Greece and France. Genocide being named as such by the Scottish government.

2025-08-12 07:54:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-08-12 07:22:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-11 19:47:22

Arbroath, United Kingdom

I'm over at the water tower again, with its dishes and antennas that I wonder the purpose of. It's not the best spot in terms of obstacles but it's quite high and the sky is open to the south west (trees, water tower). It's a warm evening, a summer glow cast over the pond and out towards the seafront. In the tall grass are a few blue corn flowers in front of me, a patch of purple thistles and yarrow. Sky full of gulls, swallows and wood pigeons. We're at a bench, which is covered in ants, it transpires, some with wings. We talk about the myth of 'flying ant day'. The weather is favourable for this particular colony to emerge (warm and calm). Aaron has come with me on account of it 'maybe being the last time' to listen to NOAA-15. I didn't know that the last time listening to NOAA-19 would be on Saturday, at the end of the summer festival. Tried to listen to NOAA-19 this morning. Dead air. Tonight, more of a fuzz than expected but happy just to hear the familiar sound pass over as the sun sets.

2025-08-11 19:46:08

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

2025-08-09 12:00:27

Arbroath, United Kingdom

The first pass as part of the Hospitalfield Summer Festival.

2025-08-11 08:47:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-11 08:26:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-10 19:31:53

An Der Kehrbachbrücke, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

Endings are eerie.

2025-08-11 10:55:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-11 09:25:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-08-10 20:12:42

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

2025-08-10 18:33:02

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

A difficult effort in a far from ideal spot, hemmed in by late summer foliage, and propping the antenna unsteadily on my shoulder. A noisy outcome, reminding me of my very first attempts at signal gathering just over a year or so ago. It feels apposite, in light of the news that NOAA 15 and 19 are to be fully decommissioned in the next few days - grateful to have had the chance to do this work in their final year of operation.

2025-08-10 09:13:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-10 08:57:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-10 08:52:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-10 09:51:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-08-09 19:22:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-09 16:46:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-08 19:48:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-09 07:00:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-08 20:23:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-08-08 17:12:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-08 08:09:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-07 08:52:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-07 08:30:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-07 18:56:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-07 09:30:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-08-06 20:15:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-06 06:11:58

Near Graz, Austria

2025-08-06 09:02:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-05 20:02:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-08-05 16:51:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-04 20:28:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-08-04 17:17:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-04 09:04:00

2025-08-04 09:04:00

2025-08-03 19:15:00

2025-08-03 08:57:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-03 08:35:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-08-03 19:01:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-08-03 09:34:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-08-02 09:06:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-08-01 19:32:00

Seattle, United States

2025-08-01 16:56:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-08-01 07:10:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-31 10:43:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-30 19:58:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-30 09:01:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-30 08:44:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-30 08:40:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-30 19:06:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-30 11:09:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-29 20:25:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-29 09:11:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-27 08:40:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-27 08:18:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-27 18:44:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-27 09:52:26

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

This weekend has been a meditation on clouds from below, above, and even amidst. The slightly gloomy conditions indicate strong sources of thermic lift, which I took advantage of on yesterday's flight over the city of York. The relatively calm passage of the clouds belie the energies at play, especially near the cloud-base itself - I admit that I remain mildly daunted, even now, when the variometer is beeping away and I'm being drawn up so strongly, jostled in my seat, with only a couple of hundred feet between me and the ominously dark, cloudy ceiling above the canopy. It is a privilege to take flight. From another standpoint, the conditions have been particularly good for radio reception, relatively free of noise, allowing this morning's NOAA-15 sounding, from a fairly low passing angle, to be surprisingly good. A good vantage on the early light over the Atlantic, from a satellite I now quite rarely get the chance to listen to.

2025-07-27 09:18:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-26 20:02:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-26 09:06:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-26 08:49:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-26 08:45:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-26 11:14:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-26 09:44:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-25 20:29:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-25 06:54:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-24 19:17:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-24 20:16:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-24 17:05:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-23 19:42:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-23 08:28:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-23 10:53:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-23 06:21:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-22 20:07:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-22 18:30:40

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

A noisy sounding in poor conditions, but, as always, the grain emphasises the material frictions at play.

2025-07-22 19:09:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-22 08:54:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-22 11:19:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-21 20:34:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-21 16:44:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-21 09:09:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-07-20 19:22:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-20 19:23:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-07-20 20:21:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-20 17:10:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-19 08:50:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-19 08:28:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-19 18:54:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-19 09:28:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-18 20:12:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-18 08:54:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-18 19:20:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-18 09:54:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-17 19:25:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-17 20:38:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-17 20:00:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-17 07:03:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-16 19:27:00

Gilboa, New York

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-16 20:26:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-16 10:36:00

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-15 08:37:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-14 20:17:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-14 18:53:32

Bucharest, Sos Pantelimon, Romania

Today at 5:00 PM in Bucharest, there were heatwave conditions and intense thermal discomfort, under a yellow heat warning in effect until tomorrow at 10:00 AM EEST. The temperature was high, with maximums between 35 and 38 degrees Celsius, and the atmosphere was dry and stifling.

2025-07-14 18:57:25

Bucharest, Sos. Pantelimon, Romania

Today (14.07.2025) at 5:00 PM in Bucharest, there were heatwave conditions and intense thermal discomfort, under a yellow heat warning in effect until tomorrow at 10:00 AM EEST. The temperature was high, with maximums between 35 and 38 degrees Celsius, and the atmosphere was dry and stifling.

2025-07-13 19:30:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-13 16:54:00

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-13 07:08:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-12 19:32:00

Gilboa, New York

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-11 08:59:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-11 09:32:00

2025-07-11 08:38:00

Gilboa, New York

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-11 19:04:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-11 11:07:00

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-11 09:37:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-10 20:22:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-10 06:47:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-09 19:11:00

Gilboa, New York

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-09 20:09:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-09 08:10:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-07-09 07:13:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-08 08:38:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-08 10:46:00

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-08 09:16:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-07 20:00:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-07 09:04:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-07 08:47:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-07 11:12:00

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-06 16:37:00

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-05 08:20:16

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

NOAA 15 was flying by with a great exposure of 88°, so I went for a short hike into the Santa Monica Mountains. The marine layer, known here as "June Gloom", is starting to burn off earlier in the morning as it was today. Most of the burned lots from the Palisades Fire have been cleared, but you can still hear some jackhammers at work. Six months after the start of the Palisades Fire most of the terrain is covered with plants. The burnt skeletons of taller shrubs have fresh, knee-high growth at the base. A friendly assortment of wildflowers bring yellow, orange, purple, white and red to the scene. Scarlet larkspur was showing off near the satellite capture. After decoding the digital file, I was disappointed in the missing infrared channel. Looking at other NOAA 15 submissions, this seems to be a pattern. With the demise of NOAA 18, it looks like NOAA 15 may be next.

2025-07-05 17:03:00

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-05 08:15:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-07-04 08:43:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-04 08:21:00

Gilboa, New York

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-04 18:47:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-04 09:56:09

Richard A Carter

University of York, United Kingdom

2025-07-04 08:41:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-07-03 09:09:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-03 08:47:00

Gilboa, New York

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-03 19:13:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-02 19:10:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-07-02 06:56:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-01 19:20:00

Gilboa, New York

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-01 20:19:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-01 17:08:00

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-01 08:20:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-07-01 07:22:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-30 08:31:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-30 08:26:00

Gilboa, New York

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-30 10:55:00

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-06-30 09:25:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-29 20:10:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-29 08:56:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-28 19:02:18

Alltan A'bradhan, Scotland, UK

In front of us is a pod of Short-beaked common dolphins. The crew turn the ferry toward the dolphins and kill the engine. What follows is a moment of great collective excitement, recorded in our wide smiles, "wows", and smart phones. From the ferry crew, I relearn the joy of stopping to take in what is in front of you. I have with me Ocean Vuong's book, The Emperor of Gladness. When we reach Alltan A'bradhan and are inside the cottage, I read the first line: "The hardest thing in the world is to only live once." Where N and I are staying in Assynt, in the far North of Scotland, we are geographically closer to Iceland than London. For the first two days, weather is wild and the winds so strong, the North Atlantic looks like it's boiling. I learn from two separate locals that I should be checking the Norwegian weather service, not the Met Office. In volunteering this advice, I suspect that they are also, rightly, making a point about their political and cultural distance from the rest of the UK, in particular England where the Met Office is headquartered. During our stay, I keep a log of the less familiar animals that I see: Common Lizard, Camusdarach, 26 June 2025 Short-beaked Common Dolphins, Mallaig–Armadale crossing, 27 June 2025 Elvers, Vesteys Beach, 1 July 2025 Moon Jellyfish, Vesteys Beach, 1 July 2025 Compass Jellyfish, Vesteys Beach, 1 July 2025 Sea Eagle (possible), Scourie, 2 July 2025 Blue Jellyfish, Vesteys Beach, 3 July 2025 Barrel Jellyfish, Vesteys Beach, 3 July 2025 Sea Slaters, Alltan A'bradhan, 3 July 2025 Sea Anemones, Alltan A'bradhan, 3 July 2025 Snipe, Alltan A'bradhan, 3 July 2025 Sea Gooseberries, Sanna Bay, 6 July 2025 I swim everyday except for the first two when it is too stormy and the last three when I have a cold. I look out for Lion's Mane Jellyfish but thankfully I see none.

2025-06-28 19:14:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-28 07:01:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-27 19:24:00

Gilboa, New York

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-27 08:24:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-26 18:56:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-26 09:29:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-26 08:50:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-25 20:14:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-24 19:18:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-23 20:51:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL)

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-23 20:28:00

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Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-23 18:49:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-23 06:23:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-22 19:53:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-22 08:40:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-22 19:01:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-20 21:28:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-20 19:49:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-19 08:33:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-18 20:40:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-06 06:51:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-06-05 19:39:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-06-18 19:05:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-18 08:20:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-18 08:33:06

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-17 21:06:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-17 08:59:13

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-17 09:03:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-17 08:28:13

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Cloudy, 20Celsius, 62%Hum, 1021kPa, variable wind. I missed the pass...

2025-06-16 19:37:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-16 20:34:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL)

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-16 19:13:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-16 19:13:01

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-16 20:11:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-16 19:28:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-16 07:33:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-16 07:07:24

Lajosmizse, Hungary

21,9 Celsius,63%humidity, 1017kPa, variable wind, no clouds.

2025-06-15 21:00:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL)

Valparaiso, Chile

Son las 11 de la noche y cae la lluvia más intensa del año sobre Valparaíso. Desde mi ventana veo las colinas del cerro del frente y una calle inundada con un río de agua bajando la quebrada. Una bruma acompaña el ruido uniforme de la lluvia, iluminada por los faroles de la calle. La ciudad está silente y vacía, tomada por el agua que cae y su suave sonido.

2025-06-16 07:14:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-15 19:38:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-15 20:37:17

In the village where I grew up and live, Saint André, Pyrénées Orientales, France

Saint André, Pyrénées Orientales, France

Particules have been in the air for weeks without interruption. Depending on their density, the blue sky, the clouds and the sun are indistinguishable. The sky is white, blinding.There's a veil between us and the trees. Today was a little bit better than it had been for several weeks. Yesterday I was even worst ; in the night it rained for 2 or 3 minutes and dust settled.

2025-05-15 19:44:58

In a tiny desert, Morocco

An empty place filled with waves.

2025-06-15 18:57:07

Soph Dyer, Nicola Locatelli, Mykola

Steinspornbrücke, Wien, Austria

1. It is a hot, cloud free day as Nicola and I drive down Refinery Road to a bridge over the Danube to capture this last image from NOAA-15's 'Extended Life' operations. Car parking spaces back onto the river bank and grill parties are in full swing. Charcoal smoke and river mist hang in the air. Large groups of friends and families have set-up chairs, tables and gazebos. On the far side of the bridge, the road curves away creating an only slightly more secluded area that is designated nudist. The nudist zone extends well beyond its official markings on the cycle path that announce, 'FKK' (Freikörperkultur or Free Body Culture). Nicola and I set-up our makeshift satellite ground station at centre point of the bridge: my rucksack shielding the laptop from cyclists, large cat fish swimming below. We are soon joined by Mykola, who introduces himself as being part of a 'space team'. Mykola is Ukrainian, has purple hair, and an immediate warmth about him. He stays for the entire satellite pass and after we listen to air traffic control chatter. Mykola has more technical knowledge than me, but is humble in his questioning and openness to learn. It is a good feeling to have shared this particular satellite pass with someone so enthusiastic, and at such a beautiful location. 2. This symbolic image of three satellites transitioning to different 'life phases' is for my siblings. Three being, for me, ever associated with navigating siblinghood. Three in the back of the car, three battle-scarred teenage bedroom doors, and the skill I had no choice to develop of being able to accurately divide anything into three equal parts. I am one of four but my youngest sibling joined us years later. So, Ray and Joe: this image of transition, of storms, and of night turning to day, is for you. 3. I am writing this Weather Note a day late, sat in bed, my mind and body still trying to cohere after ten days of international travel for work. I have a strong, consuming feeling that I have experienced since childhood, which is the world needs to slow or stop or pause just long enough for me to catch-up. I first felt this way as a primary school-aged child, sat on the intensely patterned carpet of the stairs in my parent's house, overwhelmed by the conviction that Earth was spinning too fast. I worried that if it sped-up anymore, I would be thrown off and tumble in outer space, my home receding into the darkness. I had good reason to feel this way, I was multiple academic years behind my school mates, unable to read even the most basic words. Now, when I read the news, I have the sense that geopolitical events are accelerating. Yesterday, Iran and Israel exchanged missiles ("Tehran will burn" warned Netanyahu), the day before a US lawmaker and her husband were assassinated. Throughout, people in Gaza continue to be be killed by the Israeli military as they seek food aid. In these unreal days, my thoughts often drift to our collaborator and friend, Golrokh Nafisi, who is in Tehran with her family.

2025-06-15 19:42:39

Arbroath , United Kingdom

A partial image. Not where I intended to be. It's been a while since listening with the turnstile antenna, now the AGS is installed, and returning from some time away I'd forgotten my laptop needed charged. So, just catching the end of the pass by the time it had enough juice to get going. I'll head out later for NOAA19, energies permitting. This, a portion of NOAA15's pass, came as I sat on the slightly shoogly picnic bench in my wee bit of back garden, a bit too close to the building. The street in the post-tea-time lull, all the washing just taken inside from the lines that criss cross with the antenna's spindley structure as I look through it. There was a big storm here yesterday, thunder, the works, but I wasn't here, and just now it's bright and calm. Quite humid. I've just emptied assorted pots and trays of the water that gathered. I've got 3 bags with potatoes growing in them, right in front of me, and I noticed while listening to NOAA15 that the first flowers have bloomed since I was away. They are gently blue: it's a mystery purple potato seed that was gifted without a name nor an instruction. Perhaps we will yield a portion or two.

2025-06-15 19:39:07

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 20:37:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-15 08:43:21

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

This was the first morning this summer that didn't start off under a marine layer. At the time of capture (08:43am) it was 20°C and will warm up to 27°C. Warm enough to push the marine layer out to the ocean. I could easily hear the waves crashing on the shore, as if I was on the beach. Early on a Sunday morning, the scene was very calm and tranquil.

2025-06-15 08:40:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

This morning pass of NOAA-15 captured by the Seattle AGS highlights the clear skies above the Puget Sound region, where we've experienced a few days of respite after a record-setting heat wave in early June. The high pressure system that is currently contributing to the comfortable temperature and cloudless skies is also helping keep the Canadian wildfire smoke at bay and out of the region for the most part, which cannot be said for the Midwest and Eastern US where the plumes and particulate have been blowing for weeks.

2025-06-15 08:23:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

It was a truly remarkable day in my neighborhood this Sunday, as if the weather itself knew that NOAA 18 and 19 would send their final signals. We had our first summer storm since Friday in a typical central Florida pattern - sunshine and heat, followed by sudden clouds and patches of rain. I love summer storms in Gainesville because they feel the same as summer storms on the island of Hvar in Croatia. As shown in these photos, one begins to walk down the street under perfect blue sky, and just thirty minutes later, the first innocent puffs of white clouds travel above, followed soon by their older, grayer and heavier companions. And then, for a brief moment, all the birds and cicadas are suddenly quiet, before the first sounds of thunder in the distance. Ancient oaks with their Spanish moss lace and tall pines among patiently wait for the first drops of rain.

2025-06-15 08:18:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

Misty day today. Atmospheric and cozy, though I do find myself wanting to see into the distance and the open sky. Antenna tree is fully leafy now here in late spring. Is the antenna a sort of imposter leaf, handling a different part of the EM spectrum from the tree leaves?

2025-06-15 18:44:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-15 07:59:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-15 19:08:10

Sejong City, South Korea, South Korea

Captured on June 15, 2024 — the official retirement day of NOAA-15. Received just before a summer downpour under the East Asian monsoon front. The Korean Peninsula is hidden in clouds, but the image stands as a meaningful record.

2025-06-15 09:52:02

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-06-15 09:51:32

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 08:11:41

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-15 06:32:31

Quatre Bornes, Mauritius

A rather strong anticyclone approaching from the South-West is causing moderate and relatively cold trades over our region.

2025-06-14 18:50:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-11 07:56:20

Sejong City, South Korea, South Korea

A humid summer morning in Korea. In small groups, my students built a DIY ground station and received this NOAA-15 image, clearly showing the monsoon front over the peninsula and Taiwan — a shared moment of wonder.

2025-06-14 20:07:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-14 20:03:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-14 20:45:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-14 20:05:25

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-14 08:49:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-14 08:37:46

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-14 08:00:00

Alba Iulia, Romania

Today is a very nice day in my area, the temperature is expected to be around 25 Celsius, no clouds, 65% humidity and about 3km/h wind speed. As this was one of the last good passes above my home, before NOAA shuts down transmissions, I wanted to immortalize this nice view of Europe and even Africa.

2025-06-13 18:51:44

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-13 09:03:54

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-13 09:04:26

Bidston Observatory, Wirral, United Kingdom

Very gusty on the roof today with fast clouds and pockets of sunshine! Nice to have a morning pass with NOAA-15 before I head back to London.

2025-06-13 09:07:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-13 09:04:00

Hospitalfield (UK)

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-12 19:18:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-12 19:17:40

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-12 19:18:00

Hospitalfield (UK)

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-12 07:38:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-12 09:30:03

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-12 08:51:34

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Fully sunny, 18.8 Celsius, 1025kPa, wind: variable.

2025-06-12 08:16:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-12 07:19:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-11 19:43:49

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-11 19:44:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-11 08:45:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-11 19:37:00

Jo Pollitt Rumen Rachev

Perth , Australia

2025-06-11 08:03:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-11 09:56:43

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-06-11 08:16:21

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-11 07:54:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-10 20:49:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-10 08:54:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-10 08:42:26

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 20:16:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-09 21:16:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-09 18:56:22

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 09:08:33

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 09:12:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-09 09:09:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-09 08:30:05

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Fully cloudy, 15.9 Celsius, 1024kPa, Wind: 12.6km/h from NW.

2025-06-08 19:46:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-08 21:43:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-08 19:22:20

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 19:23:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-08 20:20:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-08 09:34:43

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 08:56:18

Lajosmizse, Hungary

2025-06-08 07:16:39

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Sunny, 20 Celsius. Wind 8.2km/h, from NW.

2025-06-08 08:21:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-08 07:33:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-07 19:48:30

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 19:18:02

Next to Sejong Arts Center, Sejong City, South Korea, South Korea

A cool summer evening. I felt a sense of excitement and wonder as I held the antenna under the sky, listening to signals from space. This was my first solo attempt before joining this project with my students next week — I’m thrilled to start this journey together!

2025-06-07 08:32:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-07 08:29:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-07 18:53:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-07 08:08:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-07 08:21:38

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 09:27:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-07 07:42:35

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Sunny. 24 Celsius degrees.

2025-06-06 19:55:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-06 20:54:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-06 19:36:00

Ostrava, Czech republic

2025-06-06 08:47:06

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-05 19:25:00

Seattle, United States

It's only appropriate that just as the first heat wave strikes Seattle this summer, the life of 1 of only 3 remaining NOAA polar-orbiting satellites in operation has unexpectedly come to an end. Thanks to the unprecedented agency funding cuts in the current presidential administration, NOAA has ended support for this satellite program. While our skies are becoming smokier and hotter, we are losing more instruments to observe and document these changes. This image of static is the first pass decoded at the Seattle AGS after NOAA 18 was decommissioned. Rest in peaceful orbit...

2025-06-05 20:22:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-05 19:00:59

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-05 09:13:14

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-05 09:13:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-05 07:02:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-04 19:27:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-04 19:26:59

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-04 19:27:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-04 20:25:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-04 07:47:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-04 08:26:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-04 08:01:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-04 06:20:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-03 20:33:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-03 22:28:47

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-03 19:53:11

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-03 08:54:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-03 08:33:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-03 18:58:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-03 08:25:39

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-02 21:00:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-01 19:08:07

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

Today at a seminar, a woman asks me about 'witchy weather' and 'necromancy'. I blank on 'witchy weather' until I remember that, while the Palisades fire was still burning, my uncle sent me a YouTube video in which two men in a typical American podcast setting blamed the 'three lesbians' in the LA Fire Department, together with mayor Karen Bass ("rumoured to be a lesbian", they say) for the destruction of the fires. On the train ride home, I dig out an unfinished poem that I wrote some months ago using lines from that podcast. Reading it again, the link to the figure of the witch seems all too clear... “The mayor was in Ghana at a cocktail party when she was warned of the Santa Ana wind.” “She was warned about the winds that the chaparral had not been cleared that there was not sufficient water” “That she’d cut the fire department budget by 17 million dollars and wanted to cut it by 50” “That she appointed an LGBTQ activist as the fire chief who bragged she was to hire 70% DEI.” ~ ~ ~ “I just have to ask, as I don’t live in California: Is most of the leadership of the LA fire department overweight lesbians?” “The fire chief is,” “The assistant fire chief is,” “There’s rumours the mayor is.”

2025-06-02 08:51:45

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-01 19:29:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-01 21:20:42

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-01 19:05:37

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-01 09:20:47

Pembrokeshire, Wales

Mixed blue and cloudy sky, later overcast. Light breeze, Beaufort 2/3. Rain in the west did not make it to the receiving station.

2025-05-31 19:32:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-31 20:12:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-31 19:31:38

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-31 20:30:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-31 07:42:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-30 08:42:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-30 08:37:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-30 08:18:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-30 08:30:18

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-30 09:36:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-29 20:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-29 21:04:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-29 08:56:24

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-29 09:00:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-28 19:34:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-28 21:31:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-28 20:30:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-05-28 19:51:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-28 19:10:13

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-28 19:10:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-28 19:25:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-28 07:31:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-28 07:13:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-27 19:37:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-27 20:17:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-27 19:37:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-27 20:34:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-27 07:57:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-26 08:23:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-25 20:09:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-05-25 21:09:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-25 09:01:02

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-25 09:01:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-24 19:39:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-24 19:14:50

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-24 19:30:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-05-24 07:36:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-23 20:22:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-23 08:02:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-23 09:19:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-05-22 20:48:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-23 06:06:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-22 08:50:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-22 08:28:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-22 08:39:33

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-21 21:14:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-05-22 06:30:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-21 18:53:31

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-21 09:05:40

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-21 09:09:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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 19:19:26

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

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 19:45:34

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-05-19 19:46:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-19 08:25:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

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 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 06:35:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-17 09:14:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-15 18:32:00

Michele Boulogne

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Finland

2025-05-16 19:48:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-16 20:22:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

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 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 18:56:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-15 09:28:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

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 09:17:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-14 19:34:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-13 19:27:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-13 20:23:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-05-14 06:39:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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 19:53:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-12 19:28:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-12 19:29:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-11 19:55:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-11 08:56:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-11 08:35:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-10 20:18:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-10 09:22:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-09 19:31:00

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 19:33:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

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 09:00:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-07 19:18:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

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

2025-05-06 19:10:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-06 20:22:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-07 06:24:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-05 19:36:00

Seattle, United States

2025-05-06 06:48:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-05-04 19:38:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-04 19:38:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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 19:22:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-03 08:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-02 09:06:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-01 08:15:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-30 19:43:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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 19:27:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-29 08:53:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-28 19:19:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-28 20:32:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-29 06:32:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-04-28 09:11:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-27 08:24:59

Steve Engelmann

Santa Monica Pier, United States

A typical April morning at the Santa Monica pier. A gentle breeze with a high of 16°C. A group of about 20 people gathered near me as I captured the satellite pass. They all wore a paper number pinned to their shirt. My guess is that there was some kind charity run/jog with the pier as the end point.

2025-04-27 19:45:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-28 06:57:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-04-27 19:21:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-26 08:27:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-26 18:53:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-04-25 20:10:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-25 19:31:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-24 09:15:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-24 09:12:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-23 19:25:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-23 19:26:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-23 19:26:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-22 19:52:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-22 08:31:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-22 08:03:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-21 20:15:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-21 19:36:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-18 08:36:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-17 10:54:19

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

Cable problems mean even the slightest breeze generates noise in the image - but this does result in the rather pleasing fact that the weather itself affects the image generated. You can see when significant breezes come in as striations over the image.

2025-04-15 19:35:37

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

A very noisy sounding, but fortunately free of the audio cut-outs that have beset many recent efforts. A chance also to see the image 'click' across the night time threshold.

2025-04-15 19:35:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-14 09:02:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-14 08:41:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-13 19:11:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-13 20:24:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-13 08:59:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-12 19:37:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-11 19:39:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-11 08:40:00

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 09:06:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-10 19:24:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-10 08:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-10 08:45:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-09 09:07:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-09 09:03:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-08 19:41:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-08 19:18:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-07 19:44:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-06 19:29:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-06 09:11:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-06 08:53:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-05 19:20:00

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.

2025-04-04 19:46:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-04 19:22:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-04 08:21:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-03 19:49:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-03 08:49:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-03 08:28:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-02 19:34:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-02 09:15:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-02 08:57:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-01 19:25:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-01 09:16:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-01 09:13:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-31 19:27:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-30 19:53:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-29 20:16:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-29 18:39:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-28 08:19:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-27 19:32:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-27 18:31:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-27 12:24:38

KLIDEN FLORES LIMA

Satellite: NOAA 15 Pass Start: 27 Mar 2025 12:24:38 GMT Pass Duration: 14:55 Elevation: 54 Azimuth: 281 Solar Elevation: 14.8 Direction: southbound Creation Time: 27 March 2025 12:26:28 GMT Satellite Type: NOAA Channel A: 2 (near infrared) Channel B: 4 (thermal infrared) Enhancement: HVCT Ground Station: LIMA, PERU/South America. My experience was pleasant because in my exact location there are no weather problems, but in other latitudes of my country there are weather crises of various types.

2025-03-26 18:59:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-26 18:57:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-26 18:17:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-26 08:38:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-25 20:20:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-23 19:36:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-23 18:36:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-22 18:21:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-21 20:25:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-19 19:41:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-19 18:35:00

The Seaweed Institute and Goonown Growers

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, UK

Blue skies for installing the ground station the day before this first image uploaded, we worked together with Ray from Goonown. It was warm and springlike in Helston, the magnolias on the streets around CAST had just come into their element. We thought we knew the aspect of the building but we were surprised by the direction of true north, we had been looking closer to north north west. Spent some time pondering magnetic deviation, unsure if the smart phone compass already accounted for it, wished we had a proper compass with us. We chatted with Ray about the dry weather and how different it’s for them planting this year compared to last. A few passers-by already stopped and mused on the new feature - ‘are you installing Sky TV?’. The computer, sitting under the desk of the buildings office, seemed to be working okay and we were intrigued to see if it would upload. Ruth listened to the audio file before we saw the first image, as the automatic upload didn’t work the first time - a strange sound. Seeing this first image we couldn’t quite comprehend any features poking through the noise, it wasn’t until someone else pointed out Scotland and Ireland beneath the clouds, upside down. We worried the granite building was obscuring the reading too much but were excited to see if we could trouble shoot the image with help from Sasha and Soph. The Seaweed Institute

2025-03-18 18:26:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-17 20:29:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-17 07:28:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-15 07:56:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-14 18:30:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-14 19:29:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-14 08:54:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-13 20:34:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-13 07:11:23

Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This is my first reception of NOAA-15 through a Yagi-Moxon Antenna.

2025-03-10 20:12:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-10 18:33:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-09 07:37:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-06 18:38:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-02-26 19:24:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-11 18:38:54

Receive location: Lublin, Poland Time: 18:38 Software: SDR++ Hardware: RTL-SDR v4, dipole antenna on window

2025-02-06 19:12:00

Received with a remote SDR

2025-02-04 07:45:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-02 18:15:43

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

Having accidentally left out my aerial and SDR for two nights I feared my kit was dead. Having left the kit to dry for a good 24 hours I tried two passes this morning that had such bad interference I felt annoyingly gloomy even with a day of blue skies and sun. However after some online forum research and some kind soul giving me some tips for testing it looks like my precious kit is okay. The Moon and Venus are neighbours tonight. 3.7 degrees Celcius 74% humidity 1015 hPa/mb

2025-01-28 08:22:43

Testing, testing. Same antenna position, same satellite, different dipoles and a lower altitude pass of 54º. Vienna Inner City weather station at 3pm: temp. 16.8°C relative humidity 52% wind South, 29 km/h precipitation [last hour] 0 mm Sun [last hour] 19% air pressure 997.0 hPa Source: www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/wetter/wetterwerte-analysen/wien

2025-01-27 18:29:14

I am experimenting with different DIY antenna set-ups in an effort to reduce the electromagnetic noise that silently engulfs my apartment's balcony. Its origin remains a mystery. At dusk, as I wedged the wooden pole supporting a new copper v-dipole into an umbrella stand, I could hear a blackbird's distinct evening song. Like me, the bird seemed awakened, and perhaps confused, by the warm weather. It is spring-like and yet we are January. Yesterday, the air in the woods smelled moist and leafy as if living things were stirring, breathing. The days have been mostly dry, with broken sunshine. Tomorrow afternoon, the temperature is forecast to reach 15 Celsius. If true, that will be a whopping 20 degree increase on last week. The photograph on the left was taken on 18 January, the photograph on the right was taken on 26 January. There appear to be lots of fresh moles hills in the photograph on the right, although it is impossible to say as the framing is different.

2025-01-27 06:47:32

Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

We can see the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil completely covered in clouds.

2025-01-27 07:53:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

After days of chill and even snow in parts of Florida, today was a bright, sunny day and less cold. Older residents tell me that freezing temperatures rarely happened in the past. Most indigenous plants survived, but on my walk I observed that many non native shrubs have wilted under icy rain a few nights ago. Birds flocked to my feeder and some strange cloud formations passed in the afternoon.

2025-01-26 17:54:58

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

After Storm Éowyn. More wind is on it's way and the sky tonight has layers of higher denser cloud with lower and thinner fast moving cloud that race by across the faces of Jupiter and Venus. The breeze is getting stronger and by the time the pass has finished the clouds part like theatre curtains to reveal more of the planets and the winter constellations of Orion and Taurus. The idea of grabbing my telescope briefly floats in my head but it's quickly squashed by the processed pass of NOAA 15 more where I can see more weather from the west and pushing up from the south. Like the life span of a cloud the moment has gone. 5 degrees Celcius 88% humidity 974 mb

2025-01-26 19:09:09

Mersin Tarsus, Turkey

2025-01-23 07:57:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-22 17:59:07

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

Storm Éowyn is on it's way but they are unclear how it will unfurl. I can see from the pass that something is heading towards us off the Atlantic. Warnings are changing from yellow to red and I feel for those who will again experience flooding or winds that will cut power for hours or days. We are not a robust country. Our red warning is very different from other places on the planet. The merging of seasons has left us confused and stuck. Sort paralysed by the bigger picture. A low cloud sits above my head as it glows an unsightly orange from the light of the city. Jupiter's pinpoint of light shines through the blanket of cloud. This is another night without the stars. 5 degrees Celcius 90% humidity 995 mb

2025-01-19 08:13:00

Alba Iulia, Romania

Yes, I know the photos look bad, but my rig was a Baofeng UV-5r with the stock whip antenna, recorded with a phone. The NOAA-15 came today at 6:19 UTC almost over head with 89 degrees of elevation. There was a lot of fog out, humidity 84%. Temp was -3 Celsius.

2025-01-12 07:44:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-09 18:37:29

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

Another cold frosty night. An 80% Moon illuminates the frost on the grass. Tiny ice crystals shimmer and glimmer in brightness of the reflected moon light. I try and spot the satellite overhead but lots of fainter objects are fighting for recognition in the blinding lunar light. There the pin sharp brilliance of Venus to the west, Jupiter to the south east and Mars rising in the east. On packing away I walk across the grass leaving footprints that remind me of the moon landings or the fossilised prints left millions of years ago by the dinosaurs. As I type this I can hear the news from the next room reporting on the fires in California. What kind of footprints are being left there today and what about the footprints of the generations to come? 0.1 degrees Celsius 90% humidity 1005 mb

2025-01-08 07:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2024-12-31 14:02:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2024-12-27 14:06:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2024-12-04 07:50:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 10

2024-12-02 15:32:00

Los Angeles AGS

Los Angeles, United States

2024-11-30 18:38:57

Waxeneck, Austria

2024-11-26 07:58:00

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

After another round of Automatic Ground Station testing late last night, I saw that there would be a NOAA-15 pass around 7:50am today. Carrying the AGS in a tote bag, and my turnstile antenna in another, I found a spot on the largest field in the park, as the sun searched above the horizon toward an array of small cottonball clouds. A man was in the middle of the field before me, pacing up and down with a flip phone in his hand. The grass was damp and water-logged. A few schoolchildren hurrying along the park's main path looked over and pointed in my direction.

2024-11-25 18:09:02

@astro.anderson

South West England, United Kingdom

As storm Bert leaves I take the opportunity to test my mobile rig consisting of electrical wire in a joiner, a short coax, RTL-SDR and a Samsung Galaxy S6. With no rain and a light breeze I was quite happy wandering around and aiming it roughly. I did not expect it to work so well after reading up on the 137MHz antenna variants and the precice calculations, pass filters and leaky coax.

2024-11-25 18:08:48

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

The air bit my fingers as I held onto the metal handle of my turnstile antenna in the pool of darkness that is Hackney Downs at night. A police siren rang out in the distance and a high-speed chase progressed, two police cars tailing another car around two sides of the park. Suddenly a faint neon light appeared to bounce and leap toward me, revealing itself to be a small bulldog wearing a glow-in-the-dark collar. NOAA-15 circled overhead, scanning the outlines of North Africa, Italy and Croatia until I lost the transmission in the blurriness of the Arctic.

2024-11-21 07:17:23

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

Took another satellite capture from the bluffs over-looking the Pacific Ocean. Over the last couple of days a "bomb cyclone" formed and is making landfall in the Pacific Northwest. The name comes from how fast the storm developed. Heavy rains and strong winds have hit Washington state already. A few lives were lost to falling trees. From the image you can see a tail of the cyclone that might bring some precipitation to Southern California in the next few days. While recording the pass a construction worker came over for a chat. He asked if I was recording aliens. I later pulled up a hotspot, decoded the wav file and showed him the image. He then asked me if the world is really round or flat. I guess sometimes it is however you want to see it.

2024-11-18 08:07:00

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

It was 8am, but the sun hadn't properly risen over Hackney. As stream of uniformed children ran across it diagonally, somehow in an evenly spaced line, sleepily on their way to the primary school on the opposite corner. In five minutes I was smothered by a black terrier, trounced on by a visla, and I had to separate an Australian shepherd from the previous two, while their owners called vainly in the distance. Perhaps my status as a single dog-less human in the middle of the largest field meant I was a good one to mess with! As I was testing an Automatic Ground Station outside for the first time, using a battery pack and my phone as a hotspot, I was anxious that one of the dogs would sit or step on the delicate cables or pee on the station itself, open as it is to the air because of the need for heat vents. Luckily only one dog leg brushed the AGS, and in a few minutes more, they had raced off. The satellite image collected by the station was oddly grainy, and I resolved to try again later tonight, after 9pm.

2024-11-12 10:04:55

At the cross roads, but the tram lines, Austria

Grey skies, newly biting cold. My attempt at recording a satellite pass for several weeks. I forgot the radio frequency extension able and used a wobbly USB converter… which caused SDR++ to freeze multiple times. Next time I will pack different kit.

2024-11-10 09:17:26

Sasha Engelmann

Via Giovanni da Udine, Latisana, Italy

A NOAA-15 satellite pass at only 21 degrees to the west was not the strongest option for an image of the Adriatic, but I wanted to capture one last satellite image while nearby to this sea. Standing at the corner of a balcony reachable from T's childhood room, I fished for signals in the quiet Sunday morning. I could hear the squeak of laundry lines being pulled in, and the occasional shutter being lifted, but otherwise it was calm, near-silent. The sky lifted into a clear blue and I felt a little cold in the wool jumper that T's mom had given me when she last visited in London.

2024-11-09 07:33:11

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

In the wake of last week's national election I've been trying to find silver linings among the chaos and wild projections over what the next four years will bring. My email feed has been flooded with requests from environmental/social justice NGOs. Apparently membership and donations increased during the last time this happened. In blue California there are pockets of red. Beverly Hills High School needed to institute new regulations to tone down celebrations by teens. Monday is the beginning of the next climate conference - COP 29. The tone of the conference will pivot widely on the election results. Curious to see what, if any, strategies arise. Hopped up on my roof this morning to capture NOAA 15. Seems as if some power lines interfered with the end of the pass.

2024-11-05 17:48:43

Sasha Engelmann

Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

It’s dark, and I am standing in the botanical garden of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. It has been a sunny, cold day. Across the street from where I am standing is the US Embassy, a place whose politics will change in the next 24, or maybe 48 hours, depending on how close the election is. The embassy is measuring the air quality as part of the IQ Air network. The level of pollution is currently 122 on the AQI scale, meaning ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’. The main pollutant contributing to this unhealthy air is PM2.5, the most deadly of the microscopic particles. In comparison, London’s air today is around 70-80. It feels somewhat prescient that, on the day my home country is voting to elect (or not) a fascist leader, I have been conducting historical research on the Antifašistička Fronta Žena (AFŽ) at the nonprofit organisation and art space called Crvena. I learned about women’s efforts to organise between 1942-1953, largely around issues related to women’s working lives, their capacity to aid in the fight against fascism by taking up all manner of jobs, their need for labour recognition, their literacy, and childcare practices. As Andreja Dugandžić, co-director of Crvena explained to me, the term ‘feminism’ was not so popular at the time as it was seen as a bourgeois idea, but a ‘women’s antifascist front’ was a concrete and inspiring movement for many women in former Yugoslavia. I read magazines like ‘Nova Žena’, poems by women writers, and looked at prints and engravings. Some of it felt very contemporary - expressions of power and voice - while other parts would turn to the domestic, for example ‘how to treat diarrhoea in your baby’ or even an article on 'butchering chickens'. One article was called ‘čudno kuhinje’ (strange cooking) and I look forward to translating it to understand what kind of cooking the AFŽ thought to be strange! I wasn’t able to understand or read everything given my basic Croatian/Serbian /Bosnian, but I absorbed so many themes and images, it will take months to entirely unpack. I am left with the feeling of the Yugoslav women’s antifascist movement as a prideful one. I also felt something resonant between the thematics of the AFŽ and what I have come to understand as ‘cuerpo-territorio’ (body-land) in South American feminisms. Like cuerpo-territorio, the movement of AFŽ was about relations to land, as much as it was about anti-fascist struggle. Sharing some of the poems of 'Nova Žena' with my Mom, she immediately replied with the exclamation that she felt so much pride, like those women did, and that she also wrote poems as a teenager in Belgrade about the pride and struggle ('borba') of Yugoslavia. As I ride the tram back to the hotel, I think of my Mom, who now lives in the 'red state' of Florida, and I reflect, not without a lot of worry, about the political systems she has weathered in her life.

2024-11-05 07:32:33

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

As the sun rises over the western US, the national election is in full swing. Regardless of the outcome, about half of the US adult population agrees with a candidate who thinks the climate crisis is a hoax played by the Chinese government. As president he pulled the US out of the Paris Accord and promises to resurrect the coal industry. Two days before the election he stated that the cool weather in Pennsylvania was "evidence". Looking out upon the calm Pacific Ocean hasn't done much to calm my nerves - yet.

2024-11-03 18:39:01

Sasha Engelmann

Petra Kočića Street, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

“Gdje je mala sreća, bljesak stakla, lastavičje gnjezdo, iz vrtića dah; gdje je kucaj zipke, što se makla, i na traku sunca zlatni kućni prah?” wrote Ivan Goran Kovačić in the poem Jama or ‘the pit’. It describes village life near the town of Jasenovac in modern day Croatia. In these lines, happiness flows through a ‘window’s glint’ and ‘windborne garden sweet’. It manifests ‘by the threshold, sunshine at my feet’. These lines evoke a bucolic, gentle, rural life. And yet the poem - immediately recognisable from these four lines by anyone borne in the Balkans - is far from a picture of happiness. It narrates what occurred at the town of Jasenovac after Axis forces invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during WWII, and installed an Independent State of Croatia (NDH) ruled by the nationalist Ustaše militia. Jasenovac became the site of one of the deadliest forced labour and extermination camps of the war. What happened at the camp is disputed, but most evidence suggests that the majority of people imprisoned and executed at Jasenovac were ethnic-Serbs, largely civilians brought there for their collaboration with Partisan rebels. My grandfather, Deda Milan, was one of those anti-fascist Serbs brought to Jasenovac, but luckily he was released after my great grandmother, of Croatian / Hungarian heritage, managed to use her influence to save him. Roma, Jews, and political communists were also targeted. Kovačić’s poem goes on to narrate the horrors of Jasenovac in gruesome detail, and its power in communicating these scenes made it one of the most celebrated anti-war poems of its time. Most children educated in former Yugoslavia (and even, I learn at dinner in Banja Luka, in present day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) learn this poem in school. This context might help explain why the lines quoted at the beginning of this note - about happiness, gardens and sunny thresholds - are engraved in a plaque inside a large scale monument designed by Bogdan Bogdanović in the 1960s that now stands at the former centre of the Jasenovac camp. Its shape resembles a giant flower with six petals from some angles, but from others, it looks like a pair of wings. The edges of the petals are sharp, and diamond shaped holes allow the sky to shine through, against the heaviness of concrete. As I walked around it at sunset, its form seemed to transform, always asymmetrical. In the landscape around the monument, Bogdanović created mounds to denote the places where buildings of the camp used to stand. The monument was Bogdanović’s attempt to memorialise the history of civilian suffering without reproducing it, toward “termination of the inheritance of hatred that passes from generation to generation". To place lines of poetry depicting ‘sunny thresholds’ or ‘windblowne gardens’ at the heart of this monument is perhaps to use peaceful images - peaceful weathers - to break the ‘inheritance of hatred’ while recognising the importance of careful, watchful memory.

2024-11-02 08:10:31

Steve Engelmann

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

8am on a Saturday morning outside the Strat casino in Las Vegas is pretty quiet. Few cars, but a disheveled man with many tattoos asked me if I was communicating with aliens. When I told him I was receiving an image from a passing NOAA satellite, he seemed interested - but not enough for a conversation.

2023-08-20 08:34:30

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

Standing on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean you could feel the anticipation. Light rain had started and the winds of the incoming storm were beginning. Over 50 years I have spent many hours looking out, working through dilemmas, contemplating, searching for perspective. Today was like no other. Hilary had been down graded to a tropical storm by the morning. She tracked east of Los Angeles and ended up closing down Death Valley with historic floods.

2024-07-30 08:46:30

Steve Engelmann

Geneva, New York, United States

From the docks of William and Hobart Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York the weather was humid, but pleasant, from the shores of Seneca Lake. Powerful thunderstorms were developing for later in the day.

2024-10-10 06:37:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

The weather today sounds like names: Milton, Kirk, and Leslie. The weather sounds too like rain, even though here it is not raining. This is because the tree outside my studio window makes a rustling, swishing, and swooshing sound in the wind. Laden with dried beanpods it has become a musical instrument. I see passersby turn to find the origin of its percussive song. While working, I tune out of the news feeds of Hurricane Milton crossing Florida and tune into the tree.

2024-10-09 18:30:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 10

After having watched Hurricane Milton on various media throughout the day, and thinking about my family in Northern Florida, going to sleep tonight feels like a very difficult thing to do. As I try to distract myself with a book, I can still see the slowly spinning 'arms' of the hurricane, like an after-image.

2024-10-07 07:57:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 10

In Enemy of the Sun, Samih al-Qasim writes: I may – if you wish – lose my livelihood / I may sell my shirt and bed. / I may work as a stone cutter, / A street sweeper, a porter. / I may clean your stores / Or rummage your garbage for food. / I may lie down hungry, / O enemy of the sun, / But / I shall not compromise / And to the last pulse in my veins / I shall resist. | You may take the last strip of my land, / Feed my youth to prison cells. / You may plunder my heritage. / You may burn my books , my poems / Or feed my flesh to the dogs. / You may spread a web of terror / On the roofs of my village, / O enemy of the sun, / But / I shall not compromise / And to the last pulse in my veins / I shall resist. Samih Al-Qasim, “Enemy of the sun,” in Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance , Edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb (Washington, DC and Dar es Salaam: Drum and Spear Press, 1970).

2024-10-06 06:40:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

“How cold do you think it is outside?” I ask N as I hesitate between a light woollen or puffer jacket. “Now maybe it'll get cold. Until recently, with the sun it was okay,” he replies. I choose the black puffer jacket and we make a walk around the neighbourhood, appreciating the changing colours of dusk. We wander into a large Gemeindebau and weave through its ascending courtyards until, unexpectedly, exiting onto a familiar street. After three days of rain the sky is clear and air crisp. TD and GD left for Berlin this morning. Their spirits were not dampened by the wet weather. GD left an tunnel made of pillows, chairs and towels in our living room. Except for the walk, N and I spent the day in our pyjamas enjoying the afterglow of a weekend spent with friends.

2024-10-05 18:34:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 10

Today's night-time capture from Automatic Ground Station 10, currently in testing phase in London, looks like the 'ectoplasm' of 19th century clairvoyants, a current of veiled matter flowing over the continent.

2024-10-02 06:44:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

2024-10-03 17:41:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

New automatic ground station test location. Today is cold! Or perhaps I am just feeling the cold as I type this because I have to keep a small window open to run the ground station cable indoors. Brrr.

2024-09-30 17:19:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

"Helene Has Killed More Than 90 People. Here Are Some Of Their Stories" read the New York Times headline. I tried to recall if I had heard of the serial killer. Woman serial killers make headlines as the embodiment of evil – women who choose to take life, rather than reproduce it. I realised that I knew Helene. She had been seen a week ago in the Gulf of Mexico, before making landfall over the Big Bend of Florida's Gulf Coast, churning out death and destruction in her wake. Helene was a hurricane. Her first name was Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine, given to her by United States meteorological service on 23 September 2024. A day later, as she grew in strength and her personhood took shape, they renamed her Helene. In writing about plants, Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer observes that “names are the way we humans build relationships, not only with each other but with the living world” (Kimmerer 2013). My home country, the UK, began naming storms in 2014, following the US which had started giving tropical storms female-only names in the 50s. It took decades of feminist fighting for the US meteorological service to assign storms names coded male too (Skilton 2018). Lately, I have been thinking about the power of naming and names to affect real-world relations. I read a British study that compared named and unnamed storms of similar strength, and found that there were fewer cars on the roads during the named storm. The study's authors reason that this is because of the media event that formed around the named storm, possibly saving lives (Charlton‐Perez 2019). In North American and European nomenclature, storms are named at their geographic origins. If a storm named by the US meteorological service crosses the Atlantic and reaches the UK, it will retain its American name. What if, I wonder, we were to reference a different origin? For example, social, historical or political? In ‘Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)’, Rebecca Solnit argues that to name is to “diagnose” and so to transform our ability to speak about a subject, even articulate our relations to it (Solnit 2018). What if, rather than naming storms after each other, we traced their social origins? One outcome could be that unusually large storms, such as Helene, are named after the extractive industries that make their existence statistically so much more likely. If Hurricane Helene had been introduced to us as Hurricane ExxonMobile or Storm Shell how might our relations to such 'extreme weather' events be changed? To name storms after Big Oil feels as offensive as it is flattening. Yet current naming practices fall short too. It would be apt if, in media coverage, mega storms sounded less 'woman serial killer' and more 'corporate killer' or 'colonial menace'. Could such an expressive exercise help us grasp our role as "weathermakers" (Neimanis 2014), to diagnose the social-political origins of today's weather, and so articulate our relations, our knotty response-abilities to it?

2024-09-21 19:16:12

Imperial California , Imperial county

Imperial county

2024-06-12 20:04:12

Dordolla, Italy

A musician, Pietro, joins us for the satellite pass. The alpine village of Dordolla is so small, we just needed to walk around for word to get to Pietro that we were at the only bar. There is a light drizzle. N makes a beat to the sound of the satellite, tapping the puddle with his foot. Pietro makes a sound recording. He is a drummer. The air is thick with moisture. The energy of yesterday's electrical storm has dissipated, but the clouds have not broken yet.

2024-09-09 06:40:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

Heavy rain and cold. In the Vienna woods, mist hangs dense and low between the trees. Back in the flat, on the phone to my mum, I noticed a red balloon suspended above the rooftops. It appears to be tethered by a long string, implausibly stretching the length of the block before disappearing behind a roof. The string is long and weighs down the balloon, which despite its size must have had significant buoyancy. It looks not much larger than a child’s party balloon, but perhaps this was an illusion of perspective. I wondered if it is a weather balloon come back to Earth, however there is no visible payload. Perhaps it is a child's ambitious experiment?

2024-09-05 19:09:26

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

'Cabbage clubroot'; 'bee leg with pollen sack'; 'cucurbita ts stem' (cucumber stem); 'dryopteris filix-mas' (male fern); T and I pored over dozens of microscope slides rescued from an old science building due to close or be refurbished at Goldsmiths University. T had even rescued a microscope - the older kind with no light for illumination, and only a mirror - that otherwise would have been tossed. Too engrossed to cook dinner, we ordered pizza and kept speculating about the worlds made visible through tiny pieces of glass and magnifying lenses. Based on my undergraduate training in plant biology I thought I could identify the cambium in a slide containing a sliver of wood, but I wasn't sure. In the midst of this I went outside for an early evening NOAA-15 pass and wondered again about scale, patterns, fractals.

2024-09-04 19:40:52

Toronto (High Park),

lots of mosquitoes out this evening

2024-08-31 19:39:13

Toronto (Sunnybrook Park), Canada

2024-08-29 09:13:02

Toronto (High Park), Canada

2024-08-27 19:46:18

Toronto (High Park), Canada

2024-08-26 20:10:27

Toronto (High Park), Canada

2024-08-29 19:17:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-28 19:30:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-27 19:42:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-26 20:50:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-25 18:56:29

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

I awoke to a flood of sunlight in the apartment, though the colder air temperatures persisted. My head and body ached and I wondered about residual tiredness or a travel bug. This was all counter-balanced by a morning of indoor plant gardening: trimming the willow tree in the corner of the living room, crafting support structures for newly grown arms of vines near the ceiling, and watering others. When I finally emerged from me and T's apartment to catch an early evening pass in the park, the wind caused the dipoles of my tape measure Yagi to bend and angle all over the place. I tried to find positions where the antenna would slice through the air rather than be buffeted like a kite, but often gusts came from unexpected directions. It was not stormy, but unusually unpleasant, especially with the recent memory of sun-drenched beaches and warmer air.

2024-08-24 19:20:36

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

From the heat, humidity and air pollution alerts of northern Italy, T and I travelled back to the UK by airplane in the mid-morning. The previous evening, a thick red and orange layer of particles coated the horizon. It was particularly visible during a long, late afternoon swim to the buoy that marks the limit of the swimming zone at the beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro. Normally, while swimming one can see the coastline of the lagoon and even as far as Trieste, but the haze completely occluded our vision. I read that the air pollution alert would increase in urgency over the rest of the weekend, and wondered whether my asthmatic lungs would react, or whether we were leaving too early on Saturday for my lungs to register. The airplane journey was cloud-free until we reached the agricultural flatlands of Germany, when a few cotton ball clouds appeared. By the time we were crossing the English channel, there were at least three layers of cloud: a thin, staccato layer above the airplane; an intermediary, patchy layer below; and a thicker, grey, monotonous layer close to the ground. We descended through the middle layer but spent another thirty minutes circling above and within the lower layer before landing. As we emerged from the plane, passengers cried out at the cold drizzle and wrapped their bare, tanned shoulders in scarves and other random clothing items - taken by surprise. The rain came and went for the rest of the day. I chose a lucky rain-break to head out to Hackney Downs with my yagi antenna for an evening pass. I noticed yellowed grass; large clumps of maturing chestnuts; and the late-August sunset piercing through the trees to the west, making silhouettes of people gathered around a bench with a sound system. I thought about Soph and urged Soph's cells and molecules to keep binding, smoothing, healing.

2024-08-25 08:37:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-24 08:49:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-23 09:58:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-22 17:29:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-17 18:24:32

Sasha Engelmann

Jadrolinja Ferry between Stari Grad and Split, Croatia

The inside deck of the Jadrolinja ferry from Stari Grad to Split was far too crowded, so me and T sat on the floor of the upper deck. The air rushed around us, but the humidity stuck to our hair and skin. We said goodbye to Hvar for the summer. I said goodbye to my Baba.

2024-08-16 18:53:42

Sasha Engelmann

The rocks of Zaraće, village of Gdinj, island Hvar, Croatia

A school of tiny black fish swirled around the rocks, and island swallows swooped and dived for insects above. I sat on a rocky perch at the edge of the sea, under the fisherman’s chapel, where someone had left a bouquet of olive branches, Tradescantia pallida, yellow cow parsley and long grass. A fisherman walked past me on the rocks and I suspected I had taken his usual spot, but he didn’t ask me to move, and he climbed on further, somewhat awkwardly navigating the steep Karst with its jagged edges and slant into the sea. I meditated on the deep time histories of Hvar - how my memories of Zaraće were so bound up with every edge of these rocks, and how far back in time they had emerged from the ocean floor, pushed up by tectonic and geomorphic processes. As I faintly recorded NOAA-15 at only thirty degrees to the east, the tide was coming in, and by the time I packed up, the sea was waking up the limpets and sleeping snails where my feet had been.

2024-08-20 19:28:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-19 20:38:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-18 20:50:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-15 19:56:25

Toronto (Sunnyside beach) , Canada

I biked to the edge of Toronto, on Lake Ontario this evening. I am trying different city parks to see where might be the best place to capture. It's been fun to cycle around the city to scope out potential sites. The Toronto beaches aren't very accessible, I have to cross a large highway on a very narrow bridge. But the sunset over the bridge on my way back home was really beautiful. Clear skies for my on-the-lake capture, very humid, and I got a lot of questions from folks on their evening stroll.

2024-08-17 06:35:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-16 08:48:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-04 20:20:00

Toronto (High Park), Canada

The weather in Toronto was beautiful today, the air was a bit humid and there was no cloud coverage. The satellite passed exactly as the sun was setting, and the sky was turning pink and orange. This was my first capture in Toronto, so the image came out a bit noisy, but I as thrilled to see that I had captured the Great Lakes and Hudson's Bay! My goal is to capture The Canadian Arctic which begins at the North end of Hudson's Bay. This time of year, the sea ice has melted and we can see an ice free Hudson's Bay!

2024-08-14 17:35:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-14 10:11:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-13 06:38:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-12 19:27:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-11 19:39:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-08-10 20:50:00

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Vienna, Austria

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2024-06-04 09:27:43

Sasha Engelmann

Grassy Field near the Physics Department, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

Today has been about rhythms. I organised and choreographed so many rhythms for myself and others, but the most intense was chairing a meeting with Soph and two Croatian scientists with whom I have been in email contact for months, and whose work I have studied extensively in order to include in a recent article on 'wind's animacies' and dust over the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea. After so many protracted email exchanges and engaging slowly and carefully with their scientific work these last months, meeting them online was an experience of personality-encounter, joy, Croatian-language exchanges and rapid firing of questions (though I didn't manage to ask all the questions on my list). Later, during a research group seminar on ‘research rhythms’, we read aloud and discussed fragments of writing that suggested different rhythms, whether poetic, scholarly, scalar, material, or musical. The notion of ‘rhythming’ in research and a general tuning to the ‘science of the word’ is examined in an essay called "Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter's Science of the Word" by Katherine McKittrick, Frances H. O'Shaughnessy and Kendall Witaszek (2018). Starting from the work of poet and philosopher Aime Césaire, the authors write: “Césaire’s observation—that a creative science reckons with how poetic knowledge “is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge”—calls on the harmonious structures of collaborative thought in order to reconceptualize what it means to be human”. In other words, a 'creative science' suggests that there are ways to speak and enunciate research (including science) that are more truly collaborative and so rhythmic. I was immediately reminded of the interdisciplinary collaboration of the Croatian scientists and their willingness to be in dialogue with me and Soph on the call. McKittrick et al (2018) continue: “Like Césaire, Wynter does not turn away from scientific knowledge and privilege poetic knowledge, but rather shows that science of the word is an articulation of science and poetics together. This provides a “fulfilling knowledge,” one that understands the human in its most actualized form through the “climate of emotion and imagination.”” I love the idea of ‘science of the word’, that through a sensitivity to the craft of writing and ‘making’ words we are enacting a science that can perhaps see through the ‘silences’ of normative Science, which as the authors outline, has been responsible for articulating a version of nature that makes it possible to imagine and enact culture as separate to nature. We can ‘think science and poetics together’ in ‘fulfilling’, actualised and emotional ways. This is where I hope the collaboration and conversation with the scientists is going, though I know it is unfair to presume or predict outcomes. In the mean time, I want to return to their articles with an attention for 'science of the word' and 'narrative devices'.

2024-08-09 21:03:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 2

Vienna, Austria

Today, I came home from the hospital. The weather was fair and I wore a tee white printed shirt and black slacks, loose at the waist. Satellite not known.

2024-07-22 19:33:19

Park bench, Lackerngasse, Wien, Austria

What I thought was the beeping of a heart monitor was actually the beeps of a pedestrian crossing. I feel hollowed out. Heavy and exhausted, I sit on the street corner bench. I began the satellite pass stood next to the empty plot beside our house but moved because there was so much radio noise. It has become a mysterious fact that, since the block of flats that stood there was demolished last summer, the void has been filled with radio waves. I imagine live electrical cables buried under the compressed rubbled. Electric snakes hidden under shattered brick. This image has stopped me from venturing behind the flimsy construction site fence to pick wild flowers. A woman walking to beautifully glossy dogs stops to ask if I am listening for bats. For a moment, I wish that I was engaged in a short-range, in-situ sensing that could connect me more directly to the nature that surrounds me. Before the building was demolished there was a large bat population. No, I say, weather satellites. Man-made, metal birds, a thousand kilometres away. One of the three sisters in my building passes and asks what I am doing. I offer a less than satisfactory explanation as I have decided to rush to the nearby supermarket before it closes to buy a 'sports drink' in an attempt to replenish the electrolytes in my body.

2024-07-21 18:59:29

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

I wake up having had a nightmare, but it is really a memory of a real event that was playing out in my dreams. In the memory, I am seeing one of my PhD students get publicly attacked by a senior professor (who is also someone I respect and in some ways depend on). I run through all the ways I could have acted differently in that moment. I visualise myself standing up in front of the room and hitting back. It plays and plays, until I manage to have breakfast. By lunchtime, though, I am lost in the flow of an article I'm trying to finish before holiday. As a visual contribution to the article, after lunch I experiment with making a satellite image (one that features a current of 'Saharan Dust' moving northward over the Mediterranean) into a 'thaumatrope': an analog, double sided, spinning device that creates an optical 'illusion' of blurred borders, animated shadows, and miscible surfaces. It feels good playing with a satellite image not on a digital screen (as I overwhelmingly do in open-weather) and rather in tactile, DIY form, using a tool that is reminiscent of children's games. For me, the thaumatrope creates a kind of optical 'irritation' of moving forms, nebulous shapes and shadows, and disappearing or fading-out land and sea edges. It also seems to 'agitate' the cartographic orientation devices that we use when we see the coastline of North Africa and the 'boot' of Italy. Writing of images of the monsoon, Harshavardhan Bhat writes, "Satellite images empowered by spectroradiometer science and international coalitions begin to not just inform the science of the state but the imaginary that the monsoon unifies the entity called South Asia as part of a planetary system... This is a gift to political theory as the monsoon then becomes this technology through which the planetary infrastructure of surveillance and governance slowly unfold, silencing the complex work of the air of the monsoon" (2022: 240). Does the thaumatrope help to destabilise the 'unified entity' of the Scirocco or Jugo wind that brings 'Saharan Dust' to Europe? Does seeing a satellite image flicker and blur between channels demonstrate something about the 'slippages' of materials and elements in satellite imagery, inviting us to see beyond the 'optical ontology of pixels'? In contrast to a regional 'event', can we recognise something about the 'complex work of the air'?

2024-06-30 18:05:38

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

'So humid' proclaims T as we walk to Hackney Central to catch the overground to Stratford on a rare trip to the Westfield Mall. The air is misty with a light rain, though it is just as warm as it has been under bright sun for the last week or so. On the overground, two Moms are taking a large group of young boys paintballing. We arrive at the Mall hoping to be early enough to evade most crowds, but we find we are not the only people waiting for the Adidas store to open at noon. As soon as the metal gates have been pulled back, throngs of people enter, and it is almost impossible to locate and calmly try on shoes. We persevere in JD, Footlocker and Office before both me and T begin to feel physically unwell from the press of the crowds, the 'hall of mirrors' that is every sports apparel store, the stress of finding our way around, and the ultra loud grime tracks that are booming from every corner (though some lyrics have clearly been redacted for children's ears). We flee after no more than 45 minutes and head home, shoeless.

2024-06-28 09:06:47

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

Last night I finished 'The Well of Loneliness' by Radclyffe Hall, first published (and then banned because of its lesbian content) in the UK in 1928. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, a woman from a rich family who, in the words of the time, demonstrates "sexual inversion" from an early age. Her life story moves from the rejection of her mother and expulsion from her home in the English Countryside, to driving an ambulance in World War II, to moving to Paris where she can live a little more openly with her partner Mary. To find places where they can be and dance in public, Stephen and Mary visit 'the bars' in Paris where queer people can go without fear of prosecution, yet these places are also full of despair, substance abuse and sadness. At the end of the book, and though it breaks her heart, Stephen pushes Mary away from her, as she sees that Mary could have the possibility of a 'normal' life with a man called Martin. In the last few lines of the book, Stephen, in anguish, pleads to God: "give us also the right to our existence!". I think of how much has changed in the 100 years since the publication of The Well. I can live together with T, I can live an openly queer life, and I can freely access and read this book. Yet the 'pull' of 'normal' has not lost its strength. Society's 'straightening devices' work in new and different ways today, but they still work. Living obliquely or 'slantwise' requires unusual and surprising effort at times. And in an even odder development, queer identities and politics are now being used to 'pinkwash' the actions of corporations or governments committing acts of violence. In many ways, and in Ahmed's terms, society today might be oriented 'to' different things on the surface, but in many ways it is still oriented 'around' the same 'straightening' logic.

2024-06-27 09:35:31

Sasha Engelmann

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

I awoke this morning not having slept because of the heat. T and I had left the bedroom and living room windows open but there was little breeze. In the middle of the night, the bedroom blinds started knocking against the window and I dreamed someone was trying to get in. Foxes screamed (or intensely rejoiced?) at 3am in the garden. In Waterloo station at 7:30am, an old, bearded, probably homeless man stood still with his eyes closed in the middle of the river of city commuters emerging from the tube and walking to the train platforms. I had to cross the current by hopping a few feet at a time through moving bodies in order to speak to him. He had an American accent but I shied away from asking about his origins. He didn't open his eyes when he spoke. By the time I bought him a coffee, he had got another one from someone else. We joked about the double coffee situation before I re-entered the commuter river. When I left he had opened his eyes, gazing straight ahead.

2024-06-24 18:56:11

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

Hackney Downs was golden and glowing this evening, as the city held on to its heat. My arms and shins throbbed slightly from a fast cycle ride from Bloomsbury. I thought about my meeting with J earlier today. We had sat in Russell Square on an uncomfortable metal table, discussing place-based weather knowledges, hierarchies in academia, performance journals and practitioners, and a possible open-weather automatic ground station in Western Australia. J mentioned many collaborators, institutions and places who I imagined with fictional appearances and atmospheres. As I recorded the satellite pass, reflecting on the possible station in Australia, two people came over to speak to me. They appreciated the measuring tape. Their names were Alex and Tamsin, and Alex kindly took the attached photo (thanks Alex!).

2024-06-19 16:48:07

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

This is day two of measuring tape Yagi antenna experiments. I missed all of the 'good' passes in the morning, so I tried for a NOAA-15 pass in the early evening that peaked in elevation at 17 degrees to the East. In contrast to my experience yesterday, where the Yagi effortlessly picked up the signal of NOAA-18 at a max elevation of 45 degrees to the East, this lower elevation pass turned out to be a struggle for the Yagi. I felt either I was not being precise enough with my aiming, or the pass just wasn't high enough for a signal to be well received by the measuring tape components. As I tracked the satellite, I became uncomfortably conscious that I was pointing this conspicuously large antenna almost horizontally over an open field where some young boys were playing football. I hoped I wouldn't be noticed by an anxious parent or onlooker.

2024-06-06 20:50:00

Issey Sushi & Co, Wien, Austria

My sister, R, and her partner, B, are visiting from Cornwall. They have come to see me and N, with the hope of drying out after the wettest spring on record in the UK. They both work on the land so are very exposed to the recent extreme weather. R has decides to me how the land, after being so waterlogged has now dried smooth and cracked making planing difficult. Plus, the warm wet weather has caused the local slug populations to explode. I’ve been having nightmares of the weather being so terrible when they visit that R decides to emigrate with B to Australia. At least the first part of the nightmare comes true. R, B and me are trapped in a restaurant shop as the heavens open and day turns to night. Only an hour earlier we’d been swimming in an outdoor pool. Now the road is a torrent of grey water. A standing wave forms where the pavement used to begin. Everyone in the restaurant is watching the storm, impressed by its power. The lightening strikes close, the thunder cracking overheard with almost no delay. The limbs of trees flail, adding to the drama. R says that the sorting of sushi boxes into the square bags of delivery drivers looks like a three dimensional game of Tetris. At some point the delivery drivers must have headed into the storm as when I look up from trying to photograph the rain, they’re gone. When the rain lessens we pay up and leave. The rain has stopped but the lightening continues to flash until after midnight. I give up the idea of sticking an antenna out of the window and decode to upload this weather note instead.

2024-05-24 09:10:47

Sasha Engelmann

Founder's Field, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

Today, the headlines say that the ICJ is delivering 'a new ruling on Israel's war in Gaza'. In doing so, reporters state, the ICJ could order a halt to Israel's offensive. This is coming months after the ICJ ruled that Israel was plausibly committing genocide back in January, and many thousands of deaths later. Meanwhile, Israeli forces intensify attacks in Jabalia and Rafah. Meanwhile, the Guardian warns that we are about to experience the busiest bank holiday in years with more than half the nation's cars on the road this upcoming weekend. Meanwhile, this last week's heavy rains have caused playgrounds in East London to flood with sewage, according to my geography colleague who lives on a boat and works as a river guardian. Meanwhile, students in my department are taking an exam in a third year cultural geography course on commodities. The university campus is green, leafy and quiet; there are no visible acts of protest, no encampment, no sit-in or lie-in. Yet, from a union meeting earlier in the week, I know the university has passed new policy making it more difficult for students to engage in protest in the form of encampments, though people objected to this new policy being called 'draconian'. In a poem titled 'Fuck your lecture on craft, my people are dying' Noor Hindi writes "Colonizers write about flowers / I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks / seconds before becoming daisies". Later she writes, "Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound / When I die, I promise to haunt you forever".

2024-05-23 08:56:54

Vienna, Austria

Sunny morning, slightly hazy sky

2024-05-22 09:25:54

At home, Hernals, Wien, Austria

The air is fresh. Broken sun and wind. I left the bedroom window open during the night and half-asleep-half-awake dreamt of a fierce wind, rain lashing the window, and flying debris. I have been thinking and writing about 'fire weather'. This morning, staring my left eye that had swollen shut in the night, for not apparent reason, I wondered if inflammation is a an internal, bodily fire weather.

2024-05-07 17:57:11

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

The solar elevation was only 10.2 degrees as NOAA-15 passed overhead in the early evening today. The chestnut trees, now dense with foliage and pink-white flowers, cast long shadows on the grass. A man and a young woman (I presumed his daughter) walked up behind me, the man asking 'are you in touch with outer space today?' or some variation. I explained the image loading in on the screen, though it was too dark to make out land and sea borders, and I fear it might have looked very abstract to them. As I left the park to do an errand I noted a burst of blue underneath a sycamore tree and identified the plant as 'green alkanet'. Reading later, I learned that the five petalled, deep blue flowers of green alkanet are edible and can be added to salads and drinks. The roots were traditionally used for red dye. And the leaves, though mildly toxic, have various medicinal properties, recommended for treatment of coughs, digestive issues and fevers. When crushed and combined with vinegar and rose water they are also an effective remedy for burns and ulcers. As I walked through the neighbourhood to the grocery store, I noticed how much green alkanet was springing out of cracks in brick, in shady corners and in other uncared-for places.

2024-05-06 19:19:44

On the corner of Diepold Park, Wien, Austria

Bright sunlight, thunder booms and rain drops the size of marbles. Israel has ordered civilians to leave Rafah, but to where? In Vienna, European Election posters line the larger streets: Patriotisch, Zusammen in Europa, … I will try to collect the slogans.

2024-05-05 19:47:02

Reclaimed community garden, Hernals, Wien, Austria

First day of summer, first mosquito bite of the 2024, my first ever swim in the Alte Donau (Old Danube). The forecast on my phone predicted rain at 3pm, but the clouds passed us and Veronika, her dog and I enjoyed several hours at the Alte Donau. We made the most of the cooling clear waters before they turn murky with summer algae and river weed. I didn't realise until I got home, how much my face had 'caught the sun'. I received an broken-up transmission from NOAA-15 in a long abandoned building lot, recently commandeered as an unofficial community garden. On the way home, I could see a towering anvil cloud to the South. Tomorrow should be sunny, despite multiple storms in the region.

2024-05-02 08:38:36

Sasha Engelmann

Myddelton Square Gardens, London, United Kingdom

Myddelton Square Gardens is the name of a green, flower-filled square on top of a hill in Islington, and in which St Marks Church stands. According to the St Marks website, it is 'a country church in an urban setting'. As I held my V-dipole antenna to the sky, I tried to imagine where I was standing 'as country' without the church or surrounding three-story Victorian buildings. The Thames would probably be glistening in the distance, widening on its way to the sea. Or, given the density of the mist in the morning air, the hill would be shrouded in a small cloud, wrapped up without a view of the horizon.

2024-05-01 19:47:52

My flat, Wien, Austria

It's 1 May or Workers' Day or Labour Day. It's still novel for me live in a country that celebrates the 1 May with a national holiday and street parties. I cycled into my studio and instantly felt guilty for working, as if I were a 'scab'. Vienna has a festive, carefree atmosphere. I crossed two rallies for the Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ) and for the KOMintern at Sigmund-Freud-Park. According to a crude translation of their German-langauge website, the KOMintern is a "combative, internationalist association and trade union fighting alliance of working people, councils, the unemployed and trade union political activists". The weather is sun with some cloud and wind. If I had a barometer, it would have pointed to "Change".

2024-04-29 18:02:25

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

Hackney Downs was golden in the late afternoon light, dogs frolicking and wrestling with each other across the grass. I had chosen a place for my ground station in the thicket of the action. A woman kept yelling for 'Eric!!!' though she didn't seem worried, it was more of a 'come on!' kind of yell. Eric turned out to be a small bulldog who paid zero attention to the calling of his name as he stole tennis balls from other dogs. The satellite image I collected was unusually dark- I wondered whether this could be because of 'night time' mode, or because I am live-decoding with SDR ++ for only the second time and some settings are off.

2024-04-28 19:26:34

On my balcony, Wien, Austria

Sun. I sat in the sun and willed my vitamin D level to rise. I have been feeling under the weather since Friday and blame it on a lack of vitamin D. After sunset the temperature dropped quickly, then stabilised. N and I sat on the balcony without the lights off and watched the stars for a good hour. Bored from bring at home all day resting for the day, I used the broken co-ax cable, magnet wire from Shortwave Collective and some copper tape to improvise a full wave length v-dipole antenna. I can't find any documentation online of full wavelengt v-dipoles to receive NOAA POES satellites, so maybe it is not a good design. I recived a faint, noisy signal from NOAA-15. Perhaps the poor signal was because I had accidentally cut the dipole wire 30cm too short or becasue the balcony didn't allow for a true North-South orientation. Regardless, the anntena was satisfyingly sculptural.

2024-04-26 20:17:23

At home, Wien, Austria

2024-04-24 18:32:05

Sasha Engelmann

Shoreditch Park, London, United Kingdom

I arrived in Shoreditch Park after meeting a friend for a coffee on the Strand. It was very cold but people were lounging on the grass and strolling around the park making every effort to enjoy a semi-sunny early evening. The 'radio weather' was very active. The amplitude of the signal jumped around wildly, and the waterfall display was checkered and criss-crossed by lines of radiation. I belatedly took a screenshot to record this, but only after I had unplugged my antenna so it is not as representative as I hoped. I wondered about very tall, black streetlights installed throughout the park that looked like they had cameras or other attachments on them. The signal of NOAA-15 would jump into audibility for one or two seconds and then get swallowed up by interference, even at the height of the pass.

2024-04-24 19:27:05

Augarten, Wien, Austria

Athens is enveloped in Saharan dust, but it remains so cold here! On Friday it is forecast to drop as low as 1C degrees. An Austrian friend told me that it has snowed nearer the Alps, harming the fruits trees, which had budded early and were already in full leaf. On an emotional level the cold and damp is making me want to curl up and stay away from more energetic tasks, such as work and exercise. I checked 'wind map' to improve understanding hoping that this would bring me comfort. The slick data visualisation shows cold air coming from the artic, passing Sasha in London, before arriving in Southern and Central Europe. Sasha are you cold?

2024-04-03 08:43:01

Rossauer Brücke, Wien, Austria

It is beautifully clear and sunny. I woke early feeling rested after a good swim in the Stadthallenbad last night, which surely helped rid my body of stress hormones. This morning, I stopped on a bridge on the way into the studio to receive an image from NOAA-15. I've noticed that its imagery appears degraded, less detailed, compared to the other two satellites. At this time of day, the sunlight bounces off the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Seas creating a white flare around the the coastline of Crete and other Greek islands. No Saharan Dust was visible in the image, just two large anticyclonic clouds.

2024-04-02 09:10:37

Dornerplatz, Wien, Austria

It rained all night. Not "blood rain" coloured by Saharn Dust, normal rain. I sat on a bench in Dornerplatz and received the satellite image in the sun and wind. The sky is a true blue this morning. Seeing it made me realise how grey and brown it has been the last couple of days. It's amazing how quickly one can forget the colour of the sky, and then be shocked by its rediscovery. In The Memory Police by Japanese author Yōko Ogawa, a community living under a phantasmagorical authoritian leader slowly forget the existance of mundane things: hat, ribbon, bird, rose. These things disappear in the night. Once they are gone they no longer have meaning. In the community, forgetting is policed and takes three stages (1) the erasure of the thing (2) the erasure of the memory of the thing (3) the erasure of the memory of the memory of the thing. The news this morning is all about the war in Ukraine and the war in Palestine, and how Israel had killed Iranian Military Commanders in Syria. Iran has sworn to take punitive action against the United States. [Interval] Three people close to me messaged today to say that someone they knew had died. I have sent my condolences, even thought this never feels enough. Today, has grown into a day marked by learning of the passing of people who I will never know. I am writing this down as a minor act of recognition and remembrance.

2024-04-01 19:19:06

Ferienhaus Post Sozial, Wien, Austria

A cold wind cuts through my flimsy Uniqlo jacket, making me shiver during the satellite pass. Only three hours earlier, I'd been sat on our balcony in shorts and a cut-off tee-shirt, reading Lucy Sabin and Jorge Olcina Cantos' article 'Weathering Saharan dust beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: An interdisciplinary dialogue'. In it, they paraphrase Michael Marder writing that "to face dust is to face not the Other, but the self" (Marder, 2016: 6) Taken out of context, for me, there is something liberating in the idea that we can change state, transmutate, to the extent that we are unrecognisablle, even to ourselves. Back in inside the flat, a change in the soundscape of the street alerts to the rain. Perhaps a interin "cold drop" or the end of the dust weather. N and I take the opportunity to return to the balcony in raincoats and, under the cover of darkness, throw fists fulls of flower seeds into the empty lot next door. Last year, when the old building that had to occupied the lot was being torn down, angry, I had bought online two litres of wildflower seeds. Now we were completing the plan. The seeds rained down, hopefully accomopanied by nutrient rich Saharan Dust.

2024-03-24 18:26:50

Tyršův sad, Brno, Czechia

I saw people carrying palms leaves and realised that its Palm Sunday. I am stood a well kept park at dusk. There is cut grass, old trees, and a goats in a petting zoo. Local dogs and their owners gather nearby. Its a full moon and the satellite transmission clear. The air feels moist, cool, spring-like.

2024-03-23 18:50:46

Pítko Letenské sady východ, Prague, Czechia

The cold wind cuts through the light clothes that I packed. N and I are staying in Prague's old town but have spent the evening in Holešovice district. There are lots of Ukrainian and Czechia flags in the windows and on buildings. I was reluctant to go on holiday and leave work but I'm glad I came. The writing block I have had is softening with conversation, reading time, and thoughts about unrelated things. I am unsticking myself.

2024-03-20 18:26:26

Augarten, Wien, Austria

It's so peaceful in the park. The air is rich and still. Dusk has always been my favourite time of day. I need this moment of stillness after working on a project about the war in Gaza. I feel a familiar combination of profound gratitude and guilt. The sky is clear, it helps me.

2024-03-16 18:33:56

Diepoldplatz, Wien, Austria

Experimental copper tube v-dipole antenna.

2024-03-05 18:57:46

Sasha Engelmann

Windowsill on Downs Road, London, United Kingdom

Today is the first day I felt a slight note of spring in the air. When I woke up at 7am there was already plenty of light in the garden. On my cycle ride to Bloomsbury, my hands didn't feel the bite of cold on my handlebars. I was overdressed for the temperature, and had to unzip my coat halfway through the ride. Later in the evening I perched on our flat's back windowsill holding my radio antenna in full exposure to the night air.

2024-02-29 18:41:05

Augarten, Austria

2024-02-21 08:10:33

Sasha Engelmann Soph Dyer

Wave Farm, Acra, New York, United States

Wave Farm was quiet on this Wednesday morning in February except for the 'whoosh' of sometimes-passing cars on route 23, and the chirping of finches and other birds. The grass outside the Wave Farm building was white and crunchy with frost. We were late to set up for the NOAA 15 pass , but as both our ground stations launched, NOAA-15's signal virtually lept into the waterfall displays on our laptops. We shuddered with cold as the pass progressed. The image captured from the V-dipole antenna I was using shows the outline of the east coast of the US and the impressively large fingerprints of the great lakes.

2024-02-21 08:09:54

Sasha Engelmann Soph Dyer

Wave Farm, Acra, New York, United States

2024-02-14 17:29:33

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

Ashen, cinereal, dusky, smoky, slated, drab, grey: this is how I would describe my experience of the weather today. It is in many ways unremarkable weather, as it is not very cold, nor very wet, nor stormy or very windy. It is simply grey- a matte feeling of the colour like it surrounds you everywhere, inside and outside, dampening even your thoughts.

2024-02-09 17:58:13

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

A break in the rain allowed me to duck outside to catch a NOAA-15 pass. The sun had set already, and very few people were out in the park and nearby streets. I searched for a bench near a streetlamp and assembled my ground station. I sat on the bench in the orbit of light provided by the streetlamp and extended the antenna, its metal dipoles glinting.

2024-02-03 18:10:42

Near Pontebba, Friuli, Italy

We are in the mountains but it is above freezing. A thin layer of water covered the last of the melting snow. In Vienna last night, the wind was so strong it crashed against the bedroom windows, keeping me awake. After working on open-weather during the day, I was too excited too sleep deeply anyway.

2024-01-24 19:06:51

Augarten, Wiem, Austria

It almost feel warm today. In the afternoon, it rained but I was inside the studio so didn't notice until I saw the wet pavement. My body also feel springy-ier, the migraine and stiffness I've had since Saturday is receding.

2024-01-13 17:53:11

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

I assembled my antenna on a bench in a dim pool of lamplight after sunset in the local park. I had just come back from the march for Palestine and still had my placard with me. As I was already so cold and tired from being out at the march all day, and the park was even colder than the streets, I struggled to concentrate, almost dropping my antenna and laptop.

2024-01-13 18:50:29

Cold but clear. I enjoyed being in the weather because I have a new coat and I have been inside all day. Amazingly, the snow on the balcony is the same as when I left a week ago. I take pleasure in this stability because I am feeling disorientated: I did not sleep on the night train and I stayed in bed all today.

2024-01-12 19:22:06

Between Amsterdam and 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

The Netherlands

I am on the night train. The weather inside is controlled by a continuous cold draft from an overhead ventilation duct. I rigged my v-dipole antenna to the ladder for the beds, and tuned to NOAA-15 mid-pass. As the train sped between lit buildings, I could see the satellite dip in and out of reception. I finish the recording just before we reach the next station. I am thinking about how the current political climate renders some lives disposible, ungrievable. "An ungrievable life is one that cannot be mourned because it has never lived, that is, it has never counted as a life at all", wrote Judith Butler. Is this fascism? Golrokh messaged from Tehran. There is so much weather between us. At 's-Hertogenbosch, a woman paediatrician boards the train. She is wearing a blue surgical mask and says that she’s got the flu (later, she corrects, she thinks that she has Covid). Our shared compartment feels tense as we exchange gases, aerosols, and possibly virus. She is going on a skiing holiday.

2024-01-08 19:18:03

Peace Palace, Den Haag, The Netherlands

The Netherlands

Brrrr. It is bitterly cold! I almost stopped the recording early because I couldn't feel my fingers despite my gloves. The sky was icy clear so I tried to spot NOAA-15, without luck I arrived in the Netherlands this morning after taking the the night train from Wien. I woke to thick snow flakes floating outside the train window. Inside the weather was toasty. It's no long snowing, but a wide current of cold air, coming down from Russia, is chilling Central and Western the Europe to the bone! Tomorrow I will wear my thermal leggings.

2024-01-07 08:58:27

Mount Florida, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Scotland, United Kingdom

It was really misty, I couldn't see anything beyond the garden, cold too.

2024-01-07 08:21:24

White-grey sky. Not too cold. It began to snow just before the satellite pass, so I had to change plans and stay on my balcony, where my laptop could stay dry, instead of going to the park. I used a stretchy piece of plastic to weatherise my dongle.

2024-01-04 07:54:36

Chilly, damp morning air. It is misty on the lagoon. Cloudy, soft light, pastel colours. There is lots of radio frequency noise. The satellite's signal is weak, perhaps because of the noise or because my turnstile antenna is missing a pole.

2024-01-03 07:51:57

Sasha Engelmann

Heather Village, Fox Hills, California, USA

A storm has passed through southern California overnight, and there are still impressive clouds in the sky. The air is brisk and full of water. I captured an image from NOAA-15 which turned out without glitches but unusually dark – as if the satellite was somehow sensing the atmosphere on the ground.

2023-12-28 19:00:15

It is my second night in Bergamo at same location but with my v-dipole antenna instead of the turnstile. Yesterday I learned that that the radio environment was noisy, however I was still surprising to receive no image. During the day Nicola and I observed an opaque haze hugging the alluvial plains of Lombardy. At dusk, a narrow slip of sky, frame by the haze below and clouds above, glowed blood red. Having heard how the Alps trap air pollution from the small factories on the plain, the red glow felt menacing.

2023-12-26 18:10:44

2023-11-08 07:34:42

Anna Madeleine Raupach

Ngunnawal / Ngambri Country, ACT, Australia

The sun was bright although there were clouds in the sky. I remember there were flies and insects in the air. While receiving this image I noticed my mobile network was down, and after returning home I found out that Optus (one of Australia's main data networks) had a nation-wide outage. I am not sure if this would have affected the signal from NOAA15, but I did notice the radio landscape was more clear than normal that morning – however that did not result in a particularly clear image. (This is not the best image of the bike-tenna but the one I took on the day of this capture.)

2023-05-18 09:51:51

West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, United States

Clear Sky, temp around 20 deg celsius

2022-10-14 20:23:03

Andrea González

Amsterdam, Netherlands

2022-10-14 20:21:04

amsterdam, netherlands

humid, post-rain weather with pretty clear sky

2022-07-15 11:57:41

2022-05-07 20:36:17

Onasis Stegi, Athens, Greece

Windy and cool while the sun was setting

2022-06-15 11:56:53

Karolina Pawelczyk

Nice and sunny.

2022-05-07 19:38:41

2022-05-07 20:36:00

Christos Tsetsis

2021-11-01 08:56:00

Atsugi Kanagawa, Japan

Pattern of cloud is the beauty of the nature.

2021-10-31 19:29:13

Albany, NY, USA

2021-11-01 07:15:00

Atsugi Kanagawa, Japan

Pattern of cloud is the beauty of the nature.

2021-10-31 08:47:49

Carl Reinemann usradioguy.com

Jefferson Wisconsin, United States

Fall is here. Tempsdown to a chilly 44°F this morning and the leaves are a briliant crimson

2021-10-31 08:10:59

Reston, Virginia, USA

It is 11.1 Degrees C. Misty pleasent

2021-10-31 07:48:00

mar del plata, Argentina

muy bueno hacer la antena instalar configurar sdr para ls recepcion, hay mucho para mejorar sin duda.

2021-10-31 07:47:48

Aimee Juhazs Joaquin Ezcurra

Parque Nacional Ciervo de los Pantanos, Campana, Argentina, Argentina

Today was a day of unexpected low temperatures, after many days of intense heat in the region of Buenos Aires and surrounding areas. After a week of record high temperatures -this has been the hottest October in record- the, but the arrival of a Sudestada, cooled the region. The Sudestada (Southeast blow) is a common meteorological phenomenon in the region of Río de la Plata and surrounding areas, of cold winds from the south to the southeast quadrant, which saturates polar air masses with moisture. Since the Río de la Plata is immensely wide and rather shallow, this wind has been historically associated with rising waters and floods. As we were recording the NOAA satellite passes, the wind was blowing at roughly 30kms per hour – and increasing- from the SE, and the temperature falling. The moving mass of air lifted the dust of a dirt road, and at times, the screen of my laptop moved when it received a sudden wind gust. The arrival of this breeze had us a little worried if it would be accompanied with precipitation, but thankfully no, we could do the whole satellite pass without getting wet. The wind did give us a sense of excitement and connection with what we were doing. In this respect, as the sky was overcast, we reflected on how the satellite download link was offering us a glimpse above the very same clouds we were seeing.

2021-01-26 03:51:56

n.n.n. collective

This stellite pass was recorded while it was snowing. Although the pass was happening at almost 90 degrees it was very difficult to receive the signal. We were standing on a hill that overlooks valleys on both sides. Theoretically there were no large obstructions blocking the signal and the direction of the pass was clear.

2021-01-23 03:51:57

When I woke up I wanted to check the satellite passes for the day and realized there was one happening in that very moment, passing right in front of my window. I quickly assembled the antenna and caught the second half of the pass through the open window of my room.

2021-01-20 03:51:57

n.n.n. collective

The sensing happened on a hill everyone refers to as Teehaus due to the tea house that stands there. The hill allows a North-West-South view over the city valley. It was difficult to climb the hill due to ice and there was a cold wind blowing. Our hands were extremely cold during the sensing. Since the satellite passed only at 49 degrees and the hill we were standing on was not higher than the hills surrounding the valley on the other side, we received only a very weak and partial signal.

2020-09-20 03:51:59

2020-09-06 03:52:00

Joaquin Ezcurra

Island in Sarmiento river,

Recorded on an island in Sarmiento river, part of the Delta of Paraná river, where wetlands have been burning in the last months.

2020-09-06 03:52:00

Saint André, France

It was raining today so I installed my V-Dipole antenna on one of my studio's rooftop. I covered it with plastic bags to protect connexions. The antenna is facing south, which means that it is kind of facing the house of my neighbour. This neighbour is often spying us, so I wonder what she thinks about this antenna.

2020-09-06 03:52:01

Reston, Virginia, USA

2020-09-06 03:52:01

Sky – Clear, Ambient Temperature – 29 Degree Celsius, Night pass, Country – India.

2020-09-06 03:52:01

Reston, Virginia, USA

2020-09-06 03:52:01

Albany, NY, USA

not sure of the political climate, seems mixed.

2020-09-06 03:52:02

Santa Vittoria in Matenano, Italy

As the temperature rises, the political climate gets heated here in my village. The extremely high temperatures during both summer and winter have negatively influenced the amount of drinkable water during the year. The local government implemented strategies for preserving water by cutting off water supply during the night hours. Collectively the community is trying to rationalize water. The shortage and scarcity of water are creating tension between citizens. The fear of not having water or being able to take a shower, wash your vegetables, cook meals is growing among the villagers. Particularly during the pandemic where washing hands is an important hygienic step, water scarcity generates an unsettling climate.

2020-09-06 03:52:02

Sky – Mostly clear with few Clouds, sunny day , Ambient Temperature – 35 Degree Celsius, Country – India.

2020-09-05 03:52:03

Atsugi Kanagawa, Japan