Dale King

Geography teacher. ✝️

My posts are my own.

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

These are the rare "interstate-induced clouds" that formed over Houston's highways on Tuesday morning, wowing meteorologists.

As roads warmed faster than the surrounding land after sunrise, very humid air above them rose, cooled and quickly condensed into rows of cumulus clouds.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

This is like something out of a movie. Huge haboooooob or sandstorm in Harbin, China today.

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

A powerful sandstorm swept through the area today, bringing strong winds and blowing dust in Fatehpur, Rajasthan, India.

Sped up.

[Mike Jenkin @ShutterCG]

I've been posting a few minimaps or "pucks" after making them with an app I built using Claude, Three.js, Google, ESRI and OpenTopography.

Very straightforward: scroll around the world map or search for a location, pick an area of interest, line it up in the frame and hit capture. Then just make some adjustments and export an image, orbiting video or an .stl.

Just another cool way to explore and share the world. Hope to make it live after improving the experience.

Regional Unit of Evrytania, Central Greece, Greece 39.00123°N, 21.46591°E

#minimaps #threejs #googlemaps #Esri #OpenTopography #OSM

[YouStorm @YouStormorg]

Some of these pumice rafts in the #Bismarck Sea from the Titan Ridge Volcano, are massive. A rough outline of this one captured by Sentinel-2 this morning gives it at 69 square km. That is an area of floating rocks larger than Manhattan Island. #TitanVolcano

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Twice a year in Hawaii, the sun passes directly overhead, causing objects to cast no shadows at all.

This striking phenomenon is known as Lahaina Noon.

[Carlow Weather @CarlowWeather]

Cooler air returns for start of June

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

How will populations across the world change in the 21st century?

🔧 Explore for yourself with our new interactive tool!

Demographers publish projections using assumptions about key demographic changes, most notably fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates.

But no one knows for sure how many children people will have decades from now, or how migration will shift.

So it’s worth asking what the population would look like if things turn out differently from what the UN or other demographers assume.

Our colleagues Daniel Bachler and Sophia Mersmann built a population simulation tool that lets you do just that — for every country in the world.

Pick a country, adjust the assumptions, and see how the projections change, for both total population and age structure.

For instance, what would happen if fertility rates recovered to replacement level, or migration was cut in half?

[YouStorm @YouStormorg]

Convective cells moving south towards the South Downs, England yesterday afternoon in cool northerly flow.

[Brandon Orr @BrandonOrrWPLG]

Intense heat from this large wildfire in Broward County, Florida is rising so rapidly that it’s cooling and condensing onto smoke particles, creating these towering pyrocumulus clouds. ☁️🔥Ash was even found on cars in Pembroke Pines. More than 11,000 acres burned so far. #FLwx

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

#BREAKING🚨: Today in Utqiagvik, the sun rose above the horizon at 2:57 AM after 65 days and won’t set again for 84 straight days or until August 2nd!

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Visualization with polar day at the South Pole and polar night at the North Pole

[Python Maps @PythonMaps]

Fun concept, the distribution of elevation levels on the earths surface

[SHAHNAB AHMED @AhmedShahnab]

Transparent Globe Project- It’s finally complete!

10 unique interactive 3D globes, each visualizing a completely different global dataset in real time.

From river flows and seismic activity to population density, global inequality, satellite constellations, and even Sonic Nomad roaming the planet with live music.

Every globe is transparent, responsive, and built from scratch to feel alive.

#CreativeCoding @threejs @reactthreefiber #DataVisualization #WebGL #GenerativeArt #BuildInPublic

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

These are the sharpest images of the solar corona to date.

To create these images, a team of scientists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology developed a new "coronal adaptive optics" system that eliminates image blur caused by Earth's atmosphere.

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

It’s not often we see France like this, virtually cloud-free, as shown in this MTG-I1 satellite image captured just minutes ago.

[Copernicus EU @CopernicusEU]

🌤️ After weeks of rain, Central Europe saw clear skies on 7 Apr.

🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-3 captures the seasonal shift: snow-covered Alps, green lowlands, hazy Po Valley & dark blue lakes.

🔗 https://t.co/GGuGrL82KE

#ImageOfTheDay

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The ultimate view. Spying the boot of Italy and the stunning Mediterranean coastline from low Earth orbit.

[Hemed @725Hemeed]

Map showing Africa's terrain— from the lowlands till on top of Mount Kilimajaro .

📊 Data: Gebco bathymetry

#gischat #Africa #GIS #Cartography