The cross-desk board · five wires, read live
The physical world,
at one glance.
Six of this site’s desks watch the physical world — the air, the wind, the river, the ground, the sun’s weather and the sky over New York. This board reads one headline figure from each of their own wires, live at this visit, and every tile is one click from the full instrument behind it.
The figures come from the same public, keyless feeds the desks themselves run on — Open-Meteo, the USGS earthquake and water services, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, and the flights desk’s own relay. What a wire does not say, the board does not invent: a feed that will not answer is reported as exactly that.
seven tiles — five live wires · read every 5 minutes · every tile one click from its desk · no key, no account
The board
One figure per desk. All of them now.
New York is the board’s home coordinate — the same one the weather desk defaults to and the radar scope centres on. Each tile names its figure, says what it is, and opens the desk that owns it.
The board
waiting for the wires
The board reads itself every five minutes while you watch.
The sources
A desk behind every tile.
The board is a foyer, not an instrument. AIR and WIND are one Open-Meteo reading for New York — the weather desk carries the forecast, the alerts and the 42-city world board, and the windy desk the precision hourly view, radar and forty years of climate. WATER is the Hudson at Troy, one of the river desk’s 75 verified USGS gauges. GROUND is the biggest event of USGS’s past-day feed, counted the way the seismic desk counts it.
SUN is NOAA’s estimated planetary K-index, the same minute-by-minute series behind the aurora desk’s dial. AIRSPACE is the count of aircraft within a hundred nautical miles of New York, read through the flights desk’s own relay. And YOUR DEVICE stays a dash on purpose: a web page should not read your accelerometer uninvited, so the sensor desk asks for each instrument, on your gesture, and shows you what your own hardware says.
About
A board, honestly read.
Every figure is fetched by this page, in your browser, from the feed named on its tile — no server in the middle except the flights relay, which exists only because its upstream sends no CORS header and a page on this origin may therefore only ask this origin. The board reads all five wires every five minutes while the tab is visible, holds still while it is hidden, and re-reads on your return if what it shows has gone stale.
The numbers are their publishers’: Open-Meteo’s current conditions, USGS’s posted magnitudes and gauge readings — automatic first, revised when analysts review them — NOAA’s estimated Kp, and whatever aircraft were answering ADS-B at the moment of the read. This board rounds for the tile and otherwise repeats them; the desks behind it show the full series, and each desk’s own About says what its feed can and cannot promise. What none of them say, none of this invents.