🧊 Since 2020, the total ice mass in #Antarctica has stopped decreasing. How?

Researchers from the UG & KNMI found that a sharp increase in snowfall is mainly due to ‘atmospheric rivers’ transporting extra moist air to the ice sheet.🌨️

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/climate-and-nature/2026/more-ice-in-antarctica-due-to-increased-snowfall

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #environmental #research #atmospheric #science #meteorology #atmosphericscience #oceanography #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen @knmi

Fig City News: Bhardwaj: New weather site by Newton student. “I am Meer and I’m a 5th grader at Countryside Elementary. I have created a weather site called Nubo Weather with the help of my parents. I have been interested in weather forecasting from a young age. This site I made compares different sites and shows the median of various site forecasts.” I took a look. They did a good job!

The European AllSky7 fireball network

https://www.allsky7.net/#archive

#HackerNews #European #AllSky7 #fireball #network #Astronomy #Meteorology #Space #Science #Fireballs

🌪️🔬 University of #Michigan scientist Perry Samson shares his experience of being trapped inside a #tornado while his students filmed from a safe distance. He explains the unique #physics of the vortex and how he used #aerodynamics to keep his car on the ground.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-story-of-a-tornado-scientist-who-got-trapped-inside-one

💁🏻‍♀️✨ An EF-3 tornado near Laramie, Wyoming (2018) https://seethis.tv/post/an-ef-3-tornado-near-laramie-wyoming-2018

#meteorology #science #physics #weather #research #earthscience #atmosphere #nature #universityofmichigan

Meteorology

Current weather in Donderskamp SR SA with the infinite power of wttr.in & the grace of lolcat(6) 🏳️‍🌈 wttr curl(1) & {ba{c{k{z{fi}}}}}sh

Background photograph is a Nature cloud scene composed with FL CIRC_POL and UV filters stacked using a Nikon prime lens

log

$ curl -v wttr.in/donderskamp|lolcat
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:05 --:--:-- 0* Host wttr.in:80 was resolved.

• IPv6: (none)
• IPv4: 5.9.243.187
• Trying 5.9.243.187:80...
• Connected to wttr.in (5.9.243.187) port 80
• using HTTP/1.x> GET /donderskamp HTTP/1.1> Host: wttr.in> User-Agent: curl/8.14.1> Accept: />
• Request completely sent off< HTTP/1.1 200 OK< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *< Content-Length: 9316< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8< Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:33:51 GMT< { [8109 bytes data]100 9316 100 9316 0 0 1601 0 0:00:05 0:00:05 --:--:-- 2447
• Connection #0 to host wttr.in left intactWeather report: donderskamp

`/"".-. Light rain shower
,_( ). +26(30) °C

/(() ↙ 17 km/h

‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km

‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 1.2 mm

Note:

You should repeat the request with an interval of 8 then 60 secs when the server sends and empty response to curl, watch the LOG!

API

https://wttr.in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)

https://gnu.org

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Bash

https://curl.se/

https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat

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