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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Awesome! Real gold! It lived up to its name (Chrysalis - Χρυσαλλίς - from "χρυσός", gold)

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Does he speak English or something?

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Around 20 #red #sprites occurred at ~00-01 UTC, 22 Sep. 2026 over the northern #Aegean Sea close to #Lemnos isl. Four of these events follow, as they were captured from the eastern coast of Attica.

Red sprites through clouds over seascape and the mountains of Evia isl.

Red sprites in a cloudy and starry sky. The horizontal lines in front of the sprites are thin clouds

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rapid Warming in the Himalaya Exacerbates Geohazard Cascades Beyond Adaptation Limits www.worldweatherattribution.org/rapid-warmin...

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So sad! I'm so sorry for your loss 😞

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

17 years of love. I'm sorry for your loss

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

😶 This is a completely different level. These events exhibit an increasing frequency around the planet, from the Alps to India and Nepal.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No words. No reason for any of this to happen.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An addition to the very informative list: 1987, Greece, officially 1300 dead (mostly in Athens), unofficially 3000-4000. It was the first heatwave of the modern era. Unprecedented. 6+ days with over 40 deg. No air-conditioning. After that they all bought one. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A contribution to the study of the extreme heatwave over the south Balkans in July 1987 - Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

In this paper, an attempt is made to study the atmospheric circulation, which caused the extremely hot weather in the Balkans and south Italy during the time period from 19 to 27 July 1987. Also, base...

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Jure Atanackov @jureatanackov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just how quickly an activity surge happens: this is the Sun from Oct 18th to Nov 4th, 2003. Note the *3* enormous & complex active regions popping up. This was later in the cycle than where we are currently at, so there is still hope that we will see more severe space weather before solar minimum.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Oh yes we have. A prime minister and his gang. No rules, no laws, only scandals. Feels like trump? I agree!

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Unfortunately, this started happening here too the last 2 years. Car racing in the center of the city, in the middle of the day (not weekend), with no warning. Closing main roads for hours. You can imagine what happened...

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sometimes, I'm thinking of that too. The closest experience I had of this, was while being on mountains at an altitude of over 2 km. Absolute silence. But, you still have lights from below, although fainter. Noise and lighting (esp. led) at night is frustrating!

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Opposition effect (the white aura around Ingenuity's shadow) clearly seen as well.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Observing how terrible was Germany's decision, and after the blackout they had a year ago, they seem to think again about this totally non-sense decision of shutting down nuclear, instead of boosting it alongside with "renewables".

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Data from Global Meteor Network confirms that in this year's peak of #Perseids there were more meteors and more bright ones

Graph showing the peak of Perseid meteor shower activity for 2026

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you find some time during the next few nights and the weather gets better, give it a try if you want. Even 1-2 weeks after their peak, they still have some nice "surprises" 🙂

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#Perseids 2026 were by far the best since 2016 outburst. There was an increased number of #fireballs, as well as periods with 3, 4, even 6 #meteors within a few seconds. Best period: from twilight till midnight. Shots from cape #Sounion #Attica #Greece night of 12 Aug. Circular fisheye is 4.5 mm...

Large meteor (fireball) near Milky way over seascape with some ships and a small island full of wind turbines

Bright meteor with very long trail as shot by a circular fisheye lens with f.length of 4.5 mm

Bright meteor which flashed like a lightning and its ionization train lasted at least for 1'. Shot with a circular fisheye lens of f.length 4.5 mm

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dimkate.bsky.social @dimkate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What a celestial event! The fact it was near the horizon made it look even bigger! And got the reflection of the corona over Sil river. A pity it lasted barely over a minute. #solareclipse2026 #eclipse

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Dan Burns @the-physics-well.net · 06/08/2026

A Sunado? No, it's just a swirling tower of plasma interacting with the Sun's magnetic field and gravity. 3-hour time-lapse taken yesterday morning. Lunt 50mm double stack, ZWO ASI178MM, each frame made from 15s video taken at 15 s intervals. Thanks Autostakkert and ImPPG! #astrophotography

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The Sunset of August 7, 2026 featured only a few fairly distant clouds low on the Western horizon, but with a 55-250 mm lens I could zoom in on an intriguing adornment, an 'Sun Pillar' forming a fuzzy vertical bar of light as the reddening sunlight was reflected by roughly aligned ice crystals.

This is a panorama made from two digital SLR frames obtained of a cloud as it was being lit from underneath by the last rays of the Sun, hidden from the ground but still shining on the fairly distant and high altitude cloud. A bright vertical glow at the right is a Sun Pillar', which is the Sun bring reflected by fairly uniformly aligned ice crystals. This Pillar assumes the color of the light source.

This series of photos of the Sun Pillar accompanying the Sunset of August 7, 2026 shows the lighting changing in direction and color on the clouds. The 'Sun Pillar' persisted until the last rays left the clouds, the color becoming deeper red as that light passed through greater distances of atmosphere as seen from there.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Mars - Frost in Utopia Planitia - NASA Viking Lander 2 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2oDimoo

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SOL 960 / 1979-05-18 local time 12:50:43Z
Raw data processed from: pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Download this image: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/52930637274/sizes/o/

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/AndreaLuck

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"In 2021 Mitsotakis said that Greece would not build nuclear power plants because of the risk of earthquakes in the region." -- From this sentence alone, one can understand what kind of clowns we have as politicians in this failed state called "Greece".

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And the regime? blames it to climate change, despite the fact that many of those ministers don't even know what it is or they are typical far-right Flatearthers. 2/2

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

5 dead firemen in 1 week! And we didn't even have heatwaves like previous years. The far-right regime in GR refuses to hire more than 4000 people *needed* for firefightning. The result? The remaining few firefighters are literally giving their life. 1/2

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Earlier this morning, moonlight illuminated the eye of Super Typhoon Dolphin.

This image of Super Typhoon Dolphin is in the Day-Night Band (NCC) product from the NOAA-20 weather satellite from 14:35 UTC on 2026-07-29.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And the video from that day. It is divided in 4 parts. A) FFW of the storm B) Selected bolts C) [With Sound] the gust front D) Selected bolts with the Parthenon on the foreground www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jm1...

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Supercell Athens 24.07.2026 [4K]

YouTube video by Christos Doudoulakis

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Brief non-tornadic #supercell with lots of CGs, #hail and severe wind gusts over #Athens today (Jul 24).

CG lightning, the city (bottom), clouds (top), thunderstorm coming in

Parthenon and Acropolis with southern Athens and CG lightning at the sea

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is the same with the low temperature we had that night in Athens... BUT: a) They are in the middle of their winter b) at 1220 m This is a 23.2 deg. *deviation* or anomaly. Imagine in winter to have 26 deg instead of 3, as a *minimum* temperature.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thank you! Can't wait for the next "break". I've missed them

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

From #dusk till #dawn, #Sounion, 17-18 Jul. 2026. An astro-break much needed. Next stop: Perseids (on a new moon this year 😍)

Just after sunset, the sea (below left), some terrain, hills and rocks on the right and the sky above. Looking westwards from Sounion

Scorpius constellation over the sea. An island far away at the center of the photo. Looking southwards from Sounion

A green meteor could have left its reflection on the sea surface, as it was close to the horizon, if it wasn't for this moving Betelgeuse's supernova simulation. Actually, this is a fisherman's boat (yeah...) and the light curves all around it are several dozens of seagulls following it. I must admit that after several facepalms (with both hands), it wasn't that awful, thanks to the light painting of the seagulls mostly.

Colors of dawn, looking northeastwards from the hill near cape Sounion. Some clouds in the sky, the sea below, Makronisos isl. far away in the center, part of east Attica below, on the left side.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I guess it's *too* ridiculous even for that

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Álfheiðr @sphecida.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The tiny snake that lives on my back doorstep. DeKay's brownsnake (Storeria dekayi)

The tiny snake that lives under my garden sprayer. Pill bug for size comparison.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

What do you know! I have the same today! Looks delicious!

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"People were dying and being told they deserved it for their sins." This is such a typical phrase by religious apes globally. I first heard it by a greek monk who was entitled as "saint" after his death. He was just a sexist and a racist and sometimes he was talking about "god" as a punisher...

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I won't be surprised to see it by 2036.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A record like this for Greece, would mean to reach 51 deg. Celsius in Athens for June (current June all time record 46.2). What happens in W. Europe, once more, these days, is beyond words.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Two more #thunderstorms today (17 June). Some #lightning shots and a #circumzenithal arc for a peaceful ending

The southern part of Athens, Greece, with 2 lightning bolts and cloudy sky at noon

The western part of Athens, Greece, with lightning, rain shaft and cloudy sky at noon

The western part of Athens, Greece, with a triple lightning, rain shaft and cloudy sky at noon

A circumzenithal arc among clouds. Looks like a rainbow with the sunlight coming from below.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I sometimes log back into X to see who's still active. I am always disappointed. But it's the journals, employers, & other health organisations that shock me most. The message this sends about culture & values is so negative. From a quick scroll, I saw JAMA, Lancet, BMJ, APHA, Wellcome, NCRM, etc

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I never understood why we *have* to reverse "plunging" birth rates. We are already 8.3 billion. Let's take a small break. Most people are having kids just because they "have to", and don't know what to do with them.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I agree more or less. It's funny though because religions do exactly the same thing (impact everything from work to war). At least AI shares some knowledge and can open pathways for the solution of great problems if used correctly. Religions share lies, war and dark ages by exploiting faith.

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Christos Doudoulakis, PhD @csath.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Short-lived #iridescent #contrail this #afternoon. This occurs as a result of #diffraction of the #sunlight from the microscopic #ice crystals in the contrail, when the latter has an angular separation of ~10-30 deg. (here ~20) from the light source (here the Sun).

iridescent contrail in the sky and a zoomed-in version of it on the top right

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