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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

East coast Australia is sweating and burning 🔥 at the start of spring. With an ElNino setup like this, it’s possibly the least surprising thing in the world 🥵

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wow … glad we have ombudsman here.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is a good time to remember that Africa and South America look like a t-rex head when overlapped.

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Holy smokes Hurricane Lowell's eye is incredible.

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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 22/08/2026

vimeo.com/1220406736?s... Updated Uranus flyby, all by me, no AI Still needs a bit more work. I like the way the rings naturally become visible, but the relative brightness of the rings needs fixing. I'm happy with the level of subtle detail on Uranus, but I need to desaturate the colours a bit.

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Flyby of Uranus

This is coming together, but still needs a bit more work. I like the way the rings naturally become visible as you get close, but the relative brightness of the rings needs fixing. I'm also happy with...

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Some stunning anticrepuscular rays (shadows from distant storm clouds) on display right now at sunset. 🤩

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Dr. Nick Attree @nickattree.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

Incredible experience. Totality and then a partial #eclipse sunset from just outside #Burgos, northern #Spain. Spectacular! #IberianEclipse #Eclipse2026

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Ryan Cox @coxitron.com · 13/08/2026

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Typhoon Dolphin 12W makes for an impressively large system with an enormous wind field with 34+ kt (63+km/h) winds extending 250 nm (463 km) from the LLCC! That is extraordinary! from JTWC: RADIUS OF 034 KT WINDS - 250 NM NORTHEAST QUADRANT 225 NM SOUTHEAST 195 NM SOUTHWEST 235 NM NORTHWEST

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Super Typhoon Bavi #09W at 00:20 UTC today 8th July. With 130 kt sustained winds (1 min) and 160 kt gusts it is currently a highend Category 4 (SS) system with a central pressure of 917 hPa. Fortunately it should now stay well clear of any populated areas for the next few days at least

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July (they/them) @misovortex.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

(VOLUME WARNING) First video I’m seeing coming out of Rota island youtube.com/shorts/L3wFF...

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Viewer Video From Rota: Inside Super Typhoon Bavi's Eyewall at 180 MPH | NMI News Service

YouTube video by NMI News Service

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Super Typhoon Bavi is a beast of a storm in the Western Pacific.

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Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · 26/06/2026

Spectacular, vertically-stacked low pressure system off south west WA.

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Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · 16/06/2026

Fog down low and cirrus up high over eastern NSW/ACT on Tuesday.

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Shallow (10 km) 6.7 Mag earthquake in Indonesia just now

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is something I have never seen before on satellite. Clouds perfectly outlining roads. Just incredibly neat imagery of Houston, Texas this morning. Massive shoutout to Ethan Mok who discovered it (on Twitter).

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I mean how freaking cool is that.

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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026

On-orbit images keep improving, here a Chinese Long March 3B rocket body, imaged by Vantor WorldView Legion satellite from 88 km away. Source: Vantor (ex Maxar) on the other site

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This the latest sat image (09:50am 28/5 AWST) of the Indian Ocean high lattitude cut off low that is going to hit SW WA on Sunday/Monday. Quite an extraordinary little system. EC has it down to 973 hPa on Sunday!! Images From: KOMPSAT-2A - 640 nm (Red) band

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There is one thing on this watch-face that has seriously disturbed me from the day I bought it 15 years ago. #HugoBoss 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Another upgrade to my parametric tropical cyclone wind swath model: "realistic" treatment of wind speed decay over land. I used to use a uniform 30% reduction everywhere, but this version utilizes land use type and "roughness length" to calculate the reduction factor. An example from Melissa 2025:

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The Total Solar Eclipse from Artemis II This image sequence was captured by a modified GoPro on the solar array of the Orion spacecraft while the Artemis II mission flew around the farside of the moon. Credit: NASA/Simeon Schmauß 🔭🧪 #Artemis

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Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🔴⚠️🌀🇬🇺🇲🇵The strongest storm so far in 2026 made its #landfall on the island of #Saipan as a #supertyphoon of cat.4 with winds at 240km/h. Extreme winds and heavy rains are slamming now Mariana islands but #Sinlaku is still at cat.4.⬇️13 hours of IR Himawari9. #climateemergency

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Sofia @sofiafsantos.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

One odd side effect of working in space is realising how much of your job runs on law and politics you only half remember from a slide deck. This offcut is about the map Artemis II is sailing through, and who gets to draw it (or not). #Space #SpacePolicy #Artemis #SciCom

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Sailing by an Unseen Chart

How old sea treaties, lunar loopholes, domestic laws, and media narratives quietly reshape who the Moon is really for

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

... and this is the AWS readings of #CycloneIlsa before it stopped functioning ... 118 kt sustained winds will do that! #OTD

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

OTD Category 5 Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa crossed near Pardoo roadhouse. Cyclone Ilsa set an Australian windspeed record with 118 kt (219 km/h) 10 min sustained wind speed recorded at Bedaut Island. #CycloneIlsa #OTD

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

While visible images show a classic donut CDO typical of strong typhoon / hurricane / cyclones the latest MW images show a reasonably thin and lopsided eyewall structure, which is surprising given its very strong visible presentation. #Sinlaku #04U

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Super Typhoon Sinlaku (#04U JTWC) has entered BEAST MODE.5️⃣🌀 Sustained winds of 155 kt (290 km/h) gusting to 190 kt (350 km/h). Well into Cat 5 (SS) territory.

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Wisc-Satellite @wisc-satellite.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Nocturnal #VIIRS Day/Night Band image from #NOAA20 provided a stunning example of mesospheric airglow waves propagating radially outward from 150-knot Category 5 Super Typhoon #Sinlaku (which was located southeast of Guam and the Mariana Islands).

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sausiuswx.bsky.social @sausiuswx.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Earlier this evening Maila reached the absolutely ludicroously exceptional intensity of 125 kts but now Malia has begun to weaken. This is propably at least in part due to the system meandering back west deeper into her own cold pool.

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Tropical low 37U is forecast to form in the Solomon Sea in the next week. ACCESS, EC and GFS deterministic runs have it intensifying to tropical cyclone strength in about a week.

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New version of the protostar Barnard 335 with #JWST NIRCam, removing most of the banding noise. Preview of commons still shows older version, but this might change to the newer version. Or it will stay like this? commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ba...

A protostar with a bipolar outflow. On the right is a bright background star.

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Rob Davis @pezoporus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The rain has started here in Perth and looking forward to a lot more after 3 months with no significant rain events. Early reports from Exmouth are not good though. Narelle slowed and sat on them most of the night at Category 4 strength. Pic: ABC News.

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Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · 27/03/2026

Tropical Cyclone Narelle wreaking havoc along WA's North West Cape on Friday morning.

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Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · 26/03/2026

Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle approaching WA's North West Cape. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Heading straight for Exmouth Severe TC Narelle makes for an impressive sight tonight on the IR sat images. Exmouth and Learmonth are in for a rought ride in the next 24 hours! #Cyclone #CycloneNarelle

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Cyclone Narelle is looking a lot healthier this afternoon with a broad ragged eye evident in the latest sat loops Broad and deep moisture wrapping the system over very warm SSTs >30 °C It will go *BOOM* soon with a period of RI for the next 24 hrs.

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Latest MW image shows good convection and evidence of banding as Ex Narelle #34U / #27P crosses back into the warm waters of the Indian ocean. From 2 hrs ago #CycloneNarelle #Cyclone

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Big differences between the GFS and EC Ensembles highlight the uncertainty in ex #Cyclone Narelle ( #34U / #27P) 's track. Big differences between official BoM track and JTWC too ... Bottom line- it is a waiting game. Dont believe the hype (yet)

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

One of my favourite facts is that the spiky tail of a stegosaurus didn't used to have a specific name, until Gary Larson published this Far Side cartoon, at which point "thagomizer" was adopted by paleontologists.

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Some cool standing gravity waves are evident over the King Leopold Ranges in the Kimberly while Ex TC Narelle (TL 34U / 27P) enters the JBG. It probably wont have time to redevelop before crossing into the Kimberly later today. #CycloneNarelle

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Ex-TC Narelle is showing a large eye on the Katherine Radar

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Ex Tropical Cyclone Narelle (TL 34U) spinning its way across the Northern Territory

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weather_wa @weatherwa.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Perth Could Get Around 140.0mm Of Rain Between March 28 And 9:00am March 31 🪣 #Perth #PerthNews #PerthStorm #PerthWeather #SouthWestWA #Wheatbelt #WesternAustralia

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Latest model runs have tropical cyclone Narelle re-intensifying to cat 4-5 strength before recurving towards Perth. All major deterministic model runs (ACCESS/GFS/EC) have Narelle crossing very close to Perth as a cat 1-2 system

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

STC Narelle and its tiny little eye over the last few hours #Cyclone

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

STC Narelle and its tiny little eye over the last few hours #Cyclone

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James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Category 5 Severe Tropical Cyclone #Narelle this morning. A beautiful looking sys with all ingredients for maintaining current intensity. V cold CDO (-85 to -95C). Models have it weakening slightly with land interaction just prior to landfall, but BoM suggest it could still cross as a Cat 5.

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Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · 18/03/2026

Projection for Tropical Cyclone Narelle from ECMWF CTRL. There's strong consensus among forecast models that Narelle will cross northern Australia and arrive over the Indian Ocean next week. Official forecast at www.bom.gov.au/weather-and-....

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