Barbara
@barbamz.bsky.social
Interested in weather and climate, nature and hiking, photography, history, politics and more. Mostly just listening and watching. Based in Germany.
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"AI Will Only Intensity Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care" | Great commentary in @thenation.com by @jricole.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/envi...
AI Will Only Intensity Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don't Care.
The AI phenomenon may functionally print money for tech billionaires, at least for the time being, but it comes with a gargantuan environmental cost.
www.thenation.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"AI Will Only Intensity Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care" | Great commentary in @thenation.com by @jricole.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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Die Bodenfeuchte lag vom Frühling bis in den Sommer hinein teils markant unter dem vieljährigen Mittel, zuletzt hingegen häufig eher im Normalbereich, allerdings mit großen regionalen Unterschieden. Zeitreihen für viele Stationen bietet der Bodenfeuchteviewer: www.dwd.de/bodenfeuchte...
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Die Bodenfeuchte lag vom Frühling bis in den Sommer hinein teils markant unter dem vieljährigen Mittel, zuletzt hingegen häufig eher im Normalbereich, allerdings mit großen regionalen Unterschieden. Zeitreihen für viele Stationen bietet der Bodenfeuchteviewer: www.dwd.de/bodenfeuchte...
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On the last day of the Pope’s journey, a rainbow graces the shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa.
December 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
On the last day of the Pope’s journey, a rainbow graces the shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa.
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Morgen (Sonntag) endet offiziell die atlantische #Hurrikansaison 2025. Da aktuell keine weiteren tropischen Wirbelstürme erwartet werden, blicken wir schon heute auf die Saison an sich sowie den ein oder anderen bemerkenswerten oder gar rekordverdächtigen Moment zurück:
www.dwd.de/DE/wetter/th...
www.dwd.de/DE/wetter/th...
November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Morgen (Sonntag) endet offiziell die atlantische #Hurrikansaison 2025. Da aktuell keine weiteren tropischen Wirbelstürme erwartet werden, blicken wir schon heute auf die Saison an sich sowie den ein oder anderen bemerkenswerten oder gar rekordverdächtigen Moment zurück:
www.dwd.de/DE/wetter/th...
www.dwd.de/DE/wetter/th...
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Im bald zu Ende gehenden Herbst 2025 ist die klimatische Wasserbilanz (Niederschlag minus Grasreferenzverdunstung) vor allem im Südwesten und nahe der Nordsee überdurchschnittlich, etwa in der nördlichen Mitte hingegen vielerorts unterdurchschnittlich. Aktueller Stand: www.dwd.de/DE/leistunge...
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Im bald zu Ende gehenden Herbst 2025 ist die klimatische Wasserbilanz (Niederschlag minus Grasreferenzverdunstung) vor allem im Südwesten und nahe der Nordsee überdurchschnittlich, etwa in der nördlichen Mitte hingegen vielerorts unterdurchschnittlich. Aktueller Stand: www.dwd.de/DE/leistunge...
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🌋 #HayliGubbi — a once-dormant shield volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift — has exploded to life. Its ash plume soared to 45,000 ft, signaling a rare, high-energy event in a volcano with no known eruptions for millennia.
🛰 #NASA
🌍 #worldview
🛰 #NASA
🌍 #worldview
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🌋 #HayliGubbi — a once-dormant shield volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift — has exploded to life. Its ash plume soared to 45,000 ft, signaling a rare, high-energy event in a volcano with no known eruptions for millennia.
🛰 #NASA
🌍 #worldview
🛰 #NASA
🌍 #worldview
Laternenzug zu St. Martin am Dom zu Mainz
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Laternenzug zu St. Martin am Dom zu Mainz
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This has to be unheard of. With an extraordinary peak flash rate of 699 flashes per minute just prior to landfall in Jamaica, Melissa probably set the record for the most prolific inner-core lightning outbreak ever recorded in an Atlantic hurricane.
November 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This has to be unheard of. With an extraordinary peak flash rate of 699 flashes per minute just prior to landfall in Jamaica, Melissa probably set the record for the most prolific inner-core lightning outbreak ever recorded in an Atlantic hurricane.
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Birds flying above hurricanes? Damaged hospital posing as the actual one? Welcome to the phony world of AI-assisted weather disaster images. @climateconnections.bsky.social
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/imag...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/imag...
Imagery faked with AI’s help only added to the awfulness of Hurricane Melissa » Yale Climate Connections
A Category 5 landfall during Halloween week was scary enough on its own.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Birds flying above hurricanes? Damaged hospital posing as the actual one? Welcome to the phony world of AI-assisted weather disaster images. @climateconnections.bsky.social
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/imag...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/imag...
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“Which products in Germany 🇩🇪 get 19% tax:
- oat milk
- baby diapers
- soy schnitzel
Which get 7%:
- cow milk
- meat
- frogs legs
Which get no taxes at all:
- Jet fuel
- shipping diesel
- international flight tickets
[Germany’s] tax system is totally absurd and should be reformed!”
- oat milk
- baby diapers
- soy schnitzel
Which get 7%:
- cow milk
- meat
- frogs legs
Which get no taxes at all:
- Jet fuel
- shipping diesel
- international flight tickets
[Germany’s] tax system is totally absurd and should be reformed!”
Welche Produkte in 🇩🇪 mit 19% besteuert werden:
- Hafermilch
- Windeln
- Sojaschnitzel
Und Welche mit 7%:
- Kuhmilch
- Fleisch
- Froschschenkel
Und Welche überhaupt nicht:
- Flugkerosin
- Schiffsdiesel
- Int. Flugtickets
Unser Steuersystem ist völlig absurd und gehört reformiert!
- Hafermilch
- Windeln
- Sojaschnitzel
Und Welche mit 7%:
- Kuhmilch
- Fleisch
- Froschschenkel
Und Welche überhaupt nicht:
- Flugkerosin
- Schiffsdiesel
- Int. Flugtickets
Unser Steuersystem ist völlig absurd und gehört reformiert!
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“Which products in Germany 🇩🇪 get 19% tax:
- oat milk
- baby diapers
- soy schnitzel
Which get 7%:
- cow milk
- meat
- frogs legs
Which get no taxes at all:
- Jet fuel
- shipping diesel
- international flight tickets
[Germany’s] tax system is totally absurd and should be reformed!”
- oat milk
- baby diapers
- soy schnitzel
Which get 7%:
- cow milk
- meat
- frogs legs
Which get no taxes at all:
- Jet fuel
- shipping diesel
- international flight tickets
[Germany’s] tax system is totally absurd and should be reformed!”
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Annotating a long 3+ day loop of #Hurricane #Melissa from Kingston, #Jamaica radar.
2️⃣ periods appear where an eyewall replacement cycle, #ERC, looked underway. In both cases, inner eyewall stayed intact & outer bands merged, resulting in a larger eye & strengthening after.
A remarkable evolution 🌀
2️⃣ periods appear where an eyewall replacement cycle, #ERC, looked underway. In both cases, inner eyewall stayed intact & outer bands merged, resulting in a larger eye & strengthening after.
A remarkable evolution 🌀
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Annotating a long 3+ day loop of #Hurricane #Melissa from Kingston, #Jamaica radar.
2️⃣ periods appear where an eyewall replacement cycle, #ERC, looked underway. In both cases, inner eyewall stayed intact & outer bands merged, resulting in a larger eye & strengthening after.
A remarkable evolution 🌀
2️⃣ periods appear where an eyewall replacement cycle, #ERC, looked underway. In both cases, inner eyewall stayed intact & outer bands merged, resulting in a larger eye & strengthening after.
A remarkable evolution 🌀
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#Hurricane #Melissa from a #radar perspective. At first glance, the images may not be as stunning as the satellite images of the storm, but they impressively show how Melissa developed into an almost perfect storm with an almost perfect eye wall.
October 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
#Hurricane #Melissa from a #radar perspective. At first glance, the images may not be as stunning as the satellite images of the storm, but they impressively show how Melissa developed into an almost perfect storm with an almost perfect eye wall.
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The #severe #storm for parts of Western and Central #Europe has been named by @meteofrance.com: #Benjamin. It temporarily has the characteristics of a Shapiro-Keyser-Cyclone. The @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social forecast takes this into account with a frontal fracture.
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The #severe #storm for parts of Western and Central #Europe has been named by @meteofrance.com: #Benjamin. It temporarily has the characteristics of a Shapiro-Keyser-Cyclone. The @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social forecast takes this into account with a frontal fracture.
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Ab Donnerstag wird das Wetter turbulenter: Ein erster markanter Herbststurm steht an! Am Donnerstag ist zunächst vor allem der Süden, Westen und die Mitte, am Freitag dann der Norden betroffen. Hier mal exemplarisch die ICON6-Prognose, eine Variante unter vielen (es gibt noch größere Unsicherheiten)
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Ab Donnerstag wird das Wetter turbulenter: Ein erster markanter Herbststurm steht an! Am Donnerstag ist zunächst vor allem der Süden, Westen und die Mitte, am Freitag dann der Norden betroffen. Hier mal exemplarisch die ICON6-Prognose, eine Variante unter vielen (es gibt noch größere Unsicherheiten)
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One life is lost, two are missing, and hundreds are in turmoil after the remnants of Typhoon #Halong got re-energized over unusually warm water. Its rare track pushed record storm surge into Native Alaskan communities along the remote SW coast. Here's my full look w/@drjeffmasters.bsky.social:
Native Alaskan communities reeling in wake of Typhoon Halong’s remnants » Yale Climate Connections
One town was almost completely inundated by its worst storm surge on record.
yaleclimateconnections.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
One life is lost, two are missing, and hundreds are in turmoil after the remnants of Typhoon #Halong got re-energized over unusually warm water. Its rare track pushed record storm surge into Native Alaskan communities along the remote SW coast. Here's my full look w/@drjeffmasters.bsky.social:
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October 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Blick zum westlichen Mittelmeer: DANA "Alice" (DANA = Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos = isoliertes Höhentief) sorgt zwischen Balearen und der spanischen Ostküste seit Tagen für heftigen, gewittrigen Regen - und es kommt noch einiges dazu! Betroffen ist auch die anfällige Region um Valencia. /V
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Blick zum westlichen Mittelmeer: DANA "Alice" (DANA = Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos = isoliertes Höhentief) sorgt zwischen Balearen und der spanischen Ostküste seit Tagen für heftigen, gewittrigen Regen - und es kommt noch einiges dazu! Betroffen ist auch die anfällige Region um Valencia. /V
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"Hurricane #Humberto to batter Britain"... not quite as simple as that.
Notwithstanding if it were to reach the UK it would be Ex-Humberto, the deep low that arrives at the weekend may contain some portion of Humberto but actually spawn from a completely different initial low.
Notwithstanding if it were to reach the UK it would be Ex-Humberto, the deep low that arrives at the weekend may contain some portion of Humberto but actually spawn from a completely different initial low.
September 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"Hurricane #Humberto to batter Britain"... not quite as simple as that.
Notwithstanding if it were to reach the UK it would be Ex-Humberto, the deep low that arrives at the weekend may contain some portion of Humberto but actually spawn from a completely different initial low.
Notwithstanding if it were to reach the UK it would be Ex-Humberto, the deep low that arrives at the weekend may contain some portion of Humberto but actually spawn from a completely different initial low.
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Sehr unterschiedliche Regenmengen gab es in diesem September. Im Südwesten war es sehr nass. In Freiburg fielen schon 189 mm, im Norden wie in Hannover gerade mal 32 mm. In den nächsten Tagen wird sich daran auch so gut wie nichts mehr ändern. /LD
Kalibr. Niederschlagsumme seit Monatsbeginn vom 28.09.2025, 07:50 Uhr
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September 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Sehr unterschiedliche Regenmengen gab es in diesem September. Im Südwesten war es sehr nass. In Freiburg fielen schon 189 mm, im Norden wie in Hannover gerade mal 32 mm. In den nächsten Tagen wird sich daran auch so gut wie nichts mehr ändern. /LD
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Now a Category 4, #Gabrielle's satellite presentation continues to improve. Great time to watch the mesoscale loop as the sun goes down!
September 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Now a Category 4, #Gabrielle's satellite presentation continues to improve. Great time to watch the mesoscale loop as the sun goes down!