Chinmay Shaligram

Building @terrahelix_tech, herding @geopune. Interests include geospatial, climate, history and the environment.

[Chinmay Shaligram @chinmaymaps]

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[Chinmay Shaligram @chinmaymaps]

@ArunRaofinswim The very same.

[Chinmay Shaligram @chinmaymaps]

Just a gentle reminder that no matter how many flyovers you build, they will eventually but inevitably get jammed.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Teena Choudhry, the woman seen in the viral video wearing a black cap, confronting Maharashtra Minister Girish Mahajan over a traffic jam, releases a statement detailing her side of the story

She says, "I have received so many messages regarding my safety. I want to let you know that I'm fine and I appreciate the concern. That day, on April 21, I dropped my daughter off for her music class at four. I was meant to pick her up at 4.45. When I took a left turn from Mahindra Taj, we got stuck in a jam there. I was in my car for 25 minutes. When the traffic did not move, I got out to find out what the problem was. For the next one and a half hours, I went to every single police officer there to request that if you get the two buses removed, people who are stuck, we can make a U-turn and join the main road. I received no reaction, no response. I did not throw that bottle towards any protester or rally, but on the ground to attract the attention of the police... Mr Mahajan was actually the only person in that rally who at least tried to listen to what I was saying. On his instructions, the two buses were moved, and we all took a U-turn, and we were able to join the main road..."

(Disclaimer: Screenshot of the viral video from social media)

[Dr. Vineet Kumar @vineet_mausam]

See the official IMD forecasts in attached screenshots. Temperatures across large part of India are expected to drop in next 3 day resulting in reduction/dissipation in heatwave conditions (denoted by red symbol) in north and central India in next few days.Only follow IMD site

[sushma date @sushmadate]

Cut more trees, pour concrete on hills and riverbeds, give up every inch of open green space for real estate, and 'develop' the hell out of the country - literally!

@mohol_murlidhar @Dev_Fadnavis @SidShirole @SunetraA_Pawar @Medha_kulkarni
#ScrapBBRoad #ScrapRFDPune

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

The upcoming "mega El Niño" could be the strongest since the 1877 event that wiped out 4% of the Earth's population due to heat waves, drought and pestilence.

Scientists watching every weather model update are getting "heart palpitations" ❤️

[Chinmay Shaligram @chinmaymaps]

@SidShirole Why not set up monitoring water channels using remote sensing? It’s not that hard to do. There’s no reason to wait till it becomes an urgent issue to tackle it.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

I used Nero to burn CDs as a kid and only later got the joke: Nero burned Rome, and "Burning ROM" is such a perfect reference.

[Bhaumik Gowande @bhaumikgowande]

Don’t forget to cut tress and build shade for cars by using tarpaulin to tackle rising heat and surface temperatures.

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

And with that, Flat Earth is over.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

It is COVID only. We have collective and selective amnesia about that little f*cker.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Joe Nuts @clanceeinfinity]

literally planned obsolescence. unbelievable

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

Strongest El Niño on record this year?!

New ECMWF guidance shows a *75% chance of a super El Niño* by October, with some scenarios suggesting the most intense event in more than a century.

It will bring wide-reaching weather impacts that last into 2027 🧵

[Akshay D @akkiman]

PMC Commissioner:
- city was better before
- 1000 sites, 0 following rules
- redevelopment happens where it's profitable not needed
- lives in Model colony complaining about construction noise

Sir YOU are PMC 🙏

[Chinmay Shaligram @chinmaymaps]

@bhaumikgowande My excuse is I’m not the Mayor of New York! Jokes aside, I did try this in Pune. Weather is absolutely not conducive. Ideally I’d love this if the office space I worked in had a shower, but otherwise it’s too hot and dusty. Apart from the fact that our streets are a death trap.

[Raghu Murtugudde @rmurtugudde]

Anticyclones over the Arabian Sea & BoB being put down by the westerly jet and some westerlies over northern India. Fired up rain over many places. Western disturbances are going to rain down on our hike I am sure. IMD says April will be cooler & rainier? Hope no crop damages! 🤞🏿

[Chinmay Shaligram @chinmaymaps]

@aparanjape

[Dr. Vineet Kumar @vineet_mausam]

Above normal rain likely in large parts of bharat in April
🔵Blue shades in IMD forecast map means possibility of above normal rains in April.
IMP Note: Dotted regions over map indicate April is normally a low rain month,
so even "above normal" may still mean modest rain only.