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Technology · Forecasting
…station to the festival, in a garden across the river, recorded five. The Tamsell Valley Weather Collective is 23 volunteers, 41 homemade weather stations, 14 secondhand servers and a basement. For the valley…
Culture · Archives
…the way she would have written it up. But not first. First she wants you to understand the weather. On the second Thursday of every month, a dozen or so retired lighthouse keepers climb the stairs of Port Ellery…
Ideas · Essay
…lean year. We have lived inside that arrangement for so long that it has come to seem like weather. It is not weather. It is a choice, and an expensive one, and the bill has started to arrive. The man with the…
Ideas · Reading
…cost less than the coffee I drank while deciding to buy it. It was a 1938 handbook called Weather Lore of the Halbridge Approaches, written by a harbor pilot named Oswin Tarrant, and it had been sitting for who…
Technology · Engineering
…end, a low building overlooking the toll plaza, where two operators watch traffic cameras, weather feeds, and a screen of colored tiles, one for each sensor. Amber means a reading has crossed a warning threshold.…
Science · Climate
…line ran off the top. Rask points to a mechanism that makes each bad summer worse than the weather alone would. Fresh snow reflects up to 90 percent of the sunlight that falls on it. Old, wet snow reflects perhaps…
Politics · Public works
…opened a maintenance division anyway. It now employs 70 people. “We don’t have to like the weather,” Vos said. “We do have to dress for it.” What the backers didn’t expect Clemency Hart expected the covenant to…
Technology · Right to repair
…first available field visit was Monday. The days in between were the kind farmers describe in weather. On Friday a neighbor, Aled Brisco, lent Ostrander a 1998 tractor with almost no electronics, which started first…
Culture · Music
…of every cornice before the scaffolding goes up. Tolland, who regards most developers as weather, likes him. For some of the singers the society is plainly an act of mourning, if not for a faith then for the…
Culture · Film
…Haskett left three notebooks with the reels: 212 pages of shot lists, tape logs, expenses, weather, and the occasional grievance, in a quick, slanting hand that gets quicker when she is pleased. Wren read them…
Science · Ecology
…little as it went. Over the same four decades, the average September temperature at Norhaven’s weather station has risen by about 1.6 degrees Celsius. Weller’s working explanation is that many forest fungi wait for…
Technology · Machines
…Vessen Data, rents computing power to whoever needs it: banks, universities, the national weather service, and, increasingly, companies training artificial intelligence models. Machines like these turn almost…
Ideas · Language
…name what they deal with every day, and a fishing town will have more ways of talking about weather than an inland one. But the inference proves far too much. English has no single word for the day after tomorrow,…
Culture · Night shift
…that she calls “the bad Tuesday.” She talks while she works, mostly about the dough. Wet weather makes it slack. Cold makes it sulk. In November, when the bakery is cold at two and very hot by four, she adjusts…