Dark Sky is gone. NOAA continues to be cut. And yet, one guy rebuilt a weather API used by 40K+ devs & 80M+ requests/month — in his spare time.
This is a story about resilience, infrastructure, and kindness as punk rock.
📰 The Indie API Forecasting Your Future
🔗 https://netapinotes.com/the-indie-api-forecasting-your-future/
As we kick off into summer, I always like to think back to just a few months ago when summer was just a dream, and cold was the present reality.
It's so easy to forget, especially in the heat of summer, that nature has her seasons, with different features in each one. Cold in winter, hot in summer, BUT, because nature and weather are unpredictable, surprises aren't unexpected.
Snow Retreat art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/snow-retreat-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#weather #art #artwork #nature #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart
Not that long ago, it was cold, and we shivered when we went outside without a coat.
Not too many weeks from now it will be hot, and we'll hold the glass of iced tea against our face as we think about snow . . .
Winter Light art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/winter-light-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#nature #art #artwork #weather #winter #snow #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #rural #country #landscape #peaceful #USA #washington #hiking
#Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from #privatizing #weather forecasts
As #commerce secy, #HowardLutnick oversees the US govt’s vast efforts to monitor & predict the weather.
#law #broligarchy #profiteering #BudgetCuts #MassLayoffs #NWS #NOAA #climate #NaturalDisasters #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #flooding #Texas
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lutnick-weather-service-privatization-conflicts-9892de853c283468e6fb970cfd898d96
New today: It’s a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This story—the one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash #floods following an intense period of extended drought—is a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/
#Kerrville #KerrCounty #Texas #CentralTexas #flooding #history #environment #weather #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange
The administration is trying to kill every program that pops up in a search for the word “climate.” In the process, the heart is being cut out of agencies that produce information that the state needs to manage its environmental threats. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/
#weather #Trump #FEMA #politics #USpol #news #Texas #environment #ClimateChange
I send thanks to the buyer from North Carolina who purchased a canvas art print of
Storm Maiden -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/storm-maiden-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
May the artwork inspire you to stand strong and brave in the face of storms and trials.
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #arizona #grandcanyon #southwest #nature #USA #storm #rain #clouds #weather #brave #wallart #sale #red #bold #woman #beauty #strong #travel #mist
To watch a storm brewing, slowly unfolding, you need an unimpeded view of the sky -- no buildings in the way. And that's what you find in a large field with mountains and trees in the distance.
Watch the wind whip its way through the clouds, stirring them up, pushing them about, piling them up, getting ready for the big show.
Pine Grove art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/pine-grove-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #weather #storm #rain #landscape #rural #country #farm #washington #nature
Environment #Canada has an ad campaign using unmade and made poutine to help citizens understand the difference between a Weather Watch and a Warning!
It wasn't going anywhere, the mountain.
No matter what you said to it, no matter what names you called it, what slurs you cast upon it, it did not bow down, droop its head, slink away, acquiesce in your opinion.
It just remained: strong, determined, immovable.
Chief Joseph Mountain framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/chief-joseph-mountain-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print
#art #artwork #mountain #nature #oregon #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #travel #hiking #outdoors #USA #strong #outside #weather #confident #painting #noai
this is why I don't cope with hot #UK #weather, not only is it #hot,
if we have 4 days of sun, it never gets cool for at least 4 days.
outside is hot all day, inside is hot all day and all night!!
there's no relief!
hottest #temperature during the day before 28°c
at 1 AM
outside 19°c with a low of 15°c at 4 AM
(kitchen not living room, preemptive HA moving update)
inside 24°c and was pretty much 23°c all night
with a massive low of 23.5°c at 7 am.
just before it started to heat up again.
Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue
Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?
The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder
Around where we live, summers tend to be hot and dry; come August there may be a ripping thunderstorm that brings much desired water, but for the most part, the rains wait until autumn.
And how we wait for, and love, those autumn rains!
After an Autumn Rain art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/after-an-autumn-rain-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#weather #storm #rain #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #landscape #nature #climate #trees #road #journey #artist #wallart #travel #washington #USA #autumn #fall #color
Spring and autumn are unpredictable and capricious -- you never know if the day will be warm or cold, calm or blowsy.
But summer . . . you wake up and know that the day will be warm, then warmer, then hot, because that's what summer is: sleepy and quiet, the landscape resting under the season's heat. As we can, too.
August 2 framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/2-august-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print
#summer #weather #nature #hot #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #climate #country #rural #peace #peaceful #USA
He earned a Michelin star, but all Arvin Wan really wants to do is sell ice cream https://www.diningandcooking.com/2225441/he-earned-a-michelin-star-but-all-arvin-wan-really-wants-to-do-is-sell-ice-cream/ #business #cars #classifieds #food #FoodTopics #Homes #jobs #Lifestyle #local #news #radio #SaltLake #sports #Television #traffic #travel #Utah #weather
The clouds are broody, the wind kicks up, the slightest sting of rain touches my face.
And yet I don't feel like turning back, running into the safety of the indoors and missing the drama of this place and moment.
Evening Shadows canvas print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/evening-shadows-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #weather #storm #country #rural #fedigiftshop #landscape #washington #clouds #sky #hiking #nature
A Sierra Wave Cloud at sunset over the Truckee Meadows in Northwest Nevada. From Wikipedia: "Known as lee waves, Sierra Waves form as winds hit the Sierra Nevada and are forced to rise, causing water vapor to condense as it cools and forming lenticular clouds on the leeward side of the mountain range."
#Landscape #Weather #Clouds #Nevada #Sunset #Sierra #Photography #Darktable
him *reading on screen*: "tornado warning"
me: where?
him: I dunno, but there's a big red penis going through oklahoma
me *GIGGLESNORT*
him: apparently it's trying to get to the big red vagina over Wisconsin
me *dies* 🤣🤣🤣
(We're okay, but there is/was a tornado on the ground up north. Stay safe up there, y'all.)
The coming #ElNiño could be the strongest in over a century.
Warming water in part of the #PacificOcean is raising the odds for the biggest El Niño on record. The #weather pattern could fully form by July.
It could lead to record high global #temperatures & #food shortages, & shift patterns of #droughts, #floods, humidity & #SeaIce across the planet.
#ExtremeWeather #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/05/06/el-nino-record-weather-impacts/?utm_campaign=rct_2406:2;tt_2510:control&no_nav=true&utm_source=webview&utm_medium=referral_home
35.1 C in Stratford, Ontario, Canada 1830h UTC.
From when I visited this place regularly decades ago as a student, I recall zero 3-4 day stretches of such weather.
Meanwhile, our PM coddles an-oil-industry-intoxicated Alberta toward adding a million barrels a day to our contribution.
To an atmosphere so thin, it looks like a lightly drawn pencil-line from space -- our last shield against death by radiation.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/alberta-bc-oil-pipeline-9.7253528
