Yesterday: I've had it with hearing the same story over and over again—another 100-year-plus rainfall event, another tragic result from people occupying the floodplain without an adequate warning system. More pain. More loss. https://www.texasobserver.org/flooding-houston-hill-country-planning/
#water #environment #rivers #floods#Texas #politics#USpol#ClimateChange #weather #history #news
The Gulf tropical disturbance will come ashore in Texas later today, unlikely to develop at all, but bringing some locally heavy downpours at times to Houston and Lake Charles. A tropical wave next week in the Atlantic may (or may not) develop. And today’s flooding risk is highest near and southwest of Kansas City.
https://theeyewall.com/a-tropical-wave-may-try-to-develop-off-africa-next-week-or-it-might-not/
No development is expected from the Gulf tropical disturbance, and while heavy rain is possible on the Gulf Coast, no serious flooding is expected either. There is a fairly healthy chance of some flash flooding today from New Mexico through Kansas and into the Chicago metro.
We're losing #OpenAccess to #weather #data on the #NOAA web site. But #HamRadio operators can still access it directly from the #satellites. They can even decrypt most of it with a new #OpenSource decoder. Here's how.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder
PS: Very grateful to geeks.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue
Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?
The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder
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