March 23 is WMO World Meteorological Day! Celebrate by viewing the World Weather Watch photo exhibition via flickr : Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer … [Read more...]
Snowstorm in 38 seconds
Here is the snowstorm that hit the Northeast in the last few days, out a Long Island City, Queens, New York window, in 38 seconds (timelapse: one frame per minute from 9:06pm February 7 to 12:31pm February 9). Amusing follow up about this snowstorm: an article on the gawker website, 'Snow Panic Has Driven Weather.com Completely Insane' … [Read more...]
Leandro Erlich’s “La Vitrina Cloud Collection”
Leandro Erlich's "La Vitrina Cloud Collection" … [Read more...]
On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755
From The New York Times: "BEIJING — One Friday more than two years ago, an air-quality monitoring device atop the United States Embassy in Beijing recorded data so horrifying that someone in the embassy called the level of pollution “Crazy Bad” in an infamous Twitter post. That day the Air Quality Index, which uses standards set by the United States Environmental … [Read more...]
Bleeker Street Documents
SP Weather Station interpreter Peter Jellitsch has recently completed 'Bleeker Street Documents', a project which records and makes visible WLAN-Wireless Local Area Networks in an apartment in Manhattan. See more at: http://www.peterjellitsch.com/2012/12/21/bleecker-street-documents/ … [Read more...]