James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Tbf voyager was not designed to be the fastest /furthest thing ever made. It was designed to visit the planets! 🪐 I wonder what would happen if we designed something for that purpose? 000
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026East 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 🥵 010
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is a good time to remember that Africa and South America look like a t-rex head when overlapped. 1120848
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Holy smokes Hurricane Lowell's eye is incredible. 29526
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 22/08/2026vimeo.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.vimeo.comFlyby of UranusThis 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... 4128
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Some stunning anticrepuscular rays (shadows from distant storm clouds) on display right now at sunset. 🤩 839675
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Dr. Nick Attree @nickattree.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026Incredible experience. Totality and then a partial #eclipse sunset from just outside #Burgos, northern #Spain. Spectacular! #IberianEclipse #Eclipse2026 0144
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Typhoon 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 000
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Super 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 010
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Really only leaves it two places to land then doesn’t it, at the axis of rotation on either side, where else could it match? 000
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 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...youtube.comViewer Video From Rota: Inside Super Typhoon Bavi's Eyewall at 180 MPH | NMI News ServiceYouTube video by NMI News Service 2197
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Super Typhoon Bavi is a beast of a storm in the Western Pacific. 38528
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · 26/06/2026Spectacular, vertically-stacked low pressure system off south west WA. 3145
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Cool Zanthorrhea is my local… spent far too much money there tbh!! 110
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026My biggest issue is kangaroos eating the plants before they are established. Do they graze on this one? 110
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Which nursery if you don’t mind me asking? I’m in the process p of planting out 400m2 of former grass area with tubestock natives in the Wheatbelt (Toodyay region) so this could be a good addition!! 220
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · 16/06/2026Fog down low and cirrus up high over eastern NSW/ACT on Tuesday. 063
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Shallow (10 km) 6.7 Mag earthquake in Indonesia just now 000
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 12/06/2026It’s really high pressure and has additional concrete weight coating to stop it from floating to the surface. 😂 000
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Awesome, thank you! Sorry I missed the crediting at the end! 000
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Absolutely beautiful Seán! Maybe a stupid question but while you have explained in detail the process to create the video, how did you create a 7hr score to go with it? Are they multiple mixed tracks from a single artist or a single generated one by ai? 110
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This 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). 923277
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I mean how freaking cool is that. 2588
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026On-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 18321
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This 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 110
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 20/05/2026There is one thing on this watch-face that has seriously disturbed me from the day I bought it 15 years ago. #HugoBoss 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ 000
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Another 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: 1162
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Alright, 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. 12370561138
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The 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 523278
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 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 33914
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Sofia @sofiafsantos.bsky.social · 11/04/2026One 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 #SciComopen.substack.comSailing by an Unseen ChartHow old sea treaties, lunar loopholes, domestic laws, and media narratives quietly reshape who the Moon is really for 1105
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 120
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The official BoM report can be found here: www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/hist... #CycloneIlsa #OTD 000
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026While overall damage was minimal, pardoo station sustained ~A$15M in damage after sheds were blown away. and two illegal fishing boats capsized killing 8 fishermen. #CycloneIlsa #OTD 110
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026OTD 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 151
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026While 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 101
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Two meso-vorticies currently visible in the cleared out eye with Himawari-9 being in prime viewing position for this one, near directly overhead. 000
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026While 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 101
James Holbeach🌀 @opplevelse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Super 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. 100
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 Wisc-Satellite @wisc-satellite.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Nocturnal #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). 02810
Reposted by James Holbeach🌀 sausiuswx.bsky.social @sausiuswx.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Earlier 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. 031