"Some people have to have those sultry evenings
Cocktails in the blue, red and grey."
- Pete Townshend
#sunset #florida #gulfofmexico #dogisland

2026-06-08 18:00:27 M6.1 Yucatan Channel, Gulf of Mexico, Cuba Region

Unusual, being in the middle of a plate.

USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srjx/executive

#earthquake #cuba #GulfOfMexico #seismology #geology #citizenscience #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

#Earthquake #GulfofMexico #Cuba

Magnitude 6.1 earthquake of Mantua, Cuba.

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) is a massive #ocean_current in the #AtlanticOcean, driven by #temperature and #salinity changes (#thermohaline circulation). It influences global #weather significantly:

- Warms up #Arctic, East #Canada, #BritishIsles & #Nordic region
- Cools down #GulfofMexico, #Amazon & #Africa
- Drives #rains in all these regions
- Supports a huge #plankton #biomass, that:
- Supports higher #marine_life
- Acts as #CO2 #carbon_sink.

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Hear the Sonic Blasts Affecting Endangered Rice’s Whales in the Gulf of Mexico

Fewer than 100 Rice’s whales remain on Earth. Researchers say sonic blasts from oil exploration are a top threat to the species. See and hear why.

The New York Times

Honestly, I'm confused why the #TrumpAdministration used #OpenStreetMap rather than #GoogleStreetMap for their https://aliens.gov/ site— #Google famously renamed the #GulfOfMexico to the "Gulf of America" while the #OSM community discussed it but refrained from it for now And they aren't his billionaire friends.

#uspol #politics #TrumpAdministration2026 #SecondTrumpAdminstration #AlphabetLLC #AlienFiles #GOP_Propaganda #Fascism #Project2025 #AlienEnemiesAct #HabeasCorpus #DueProcess

Aliens

Search illegal alien arrests in your city and across the US on our interactive map. Discover how the Trump administration is delivering on immigration promises with record enforcement actions and large-scale deportations.

The White House

I like this photo I took in 2017 when visiting #Florida for a wedding; the expanse of roof, parking, cars, and heat exchangers in the foreground illustrate all of the infrastructure required to deliver people to the picturesque strip of sandy beach and water.

#MeerMittwoch #GulfOfMexico

“The Gulf of Mexico marked the end of the road for the redesigned first-stage booster, and the Indian Ocean for the spacecraft and its satellite demos.”

Even though the article still uses those unscientific and incomprehensible American “freedom units”, I'm glad to see that #NPR does not succumb to dumb, revisionist, white-supremecist “alternate geography” here.

It's simply the gulf of Mexico.

#GulfOfMexico #Musk #SpaceX #MAGA
#Maglomania

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/23/nx-s1-5832402/spacex-biggest-starship-flight

#GulfofMexico #USA #US #Mexico #Cuba

Something startling is happening in the Gulf of Mexico

Its waters are heating up twice as fast as the global oceans, with huge implications for hurricane risk

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/something-startling-is-happening-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/

#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Something startling is happening in the Gulf of Mexico

Its waters are heating up twice as fast as the global oceans, with huge implications for hurricane risk.

Yale Climate Connections

Artemis III: Pegasus barge hitting the Gulf of Mexico.

Credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker

#Artemis #Artemis3 #GulfOfMexico #space #SLS #SpaceLaunchSystem #PegasusBarge #KennedySpaceCenter #Florida #Moon #news #photography #NASA #NewOrleans