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Earth · fourteen live instruments

A monitoring station
for one planet.

Thirteen instruments pointed at the same planet: the air over a city, the storms crossing it, the ground moving under it, the rivers and tides at its edges, the sky above it and the power being burned to keep the lights on. Every one reads a public scientific feed directly — the national weather services, the USGS, NOAA, the tide stations, the river gauges, the grid operators — and draws what actually came back.

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Weather The forecast, and the warnings Conditions and the official watches and warnings for where you are, read from the national service rather than a reseller. Conditions New York: air, water and sun What the city is like today by measurement — air quality, harbour water, and the light. Windy Radar and the forecast maps The moving picture — radar, wind and the model maps — in both editions. Quake Earthquakes, in the last hour The USGS feed drawn as it arrives, by magnitude and depth, newest first. Hurricane The storm, while it is happening The live tracker: position, strength and the forecast cone as the agencies publish them. Tides High and low, at your beach Tide predictions read from the official station nearest you, with the day's curve drawn out. Rivers River levels, and what is flooding Gauge heights read live, with the flood stages the agencies themselves set marked on the scale. Aurora Whether the sky will do anything The planetary K-index on a drawn dial and NOAA's OVATION forecast painted whole — 65,160 probability cells over a hand-drawn graticule. Space Launches, and where the station is The upcoming launch manifest and the ISS overhead, from the public feeds that carry them. Flights What is in the air right now Live aircraft positions drawn on the page, routed through the estate's own relay so no key is needed. Transit When the next train actually comes The New York subway board, with the MTA's own realtime feeds decoded in the browser and no key involved. Grid What is powering Europe, right now The generation mix by source and country, read live, so you can watch the wind arrive. Clockwork World clocks, and where the sun is Time in the places you care about with daylight drawn rather than tabulated. Sensor The instruments already in your hand The phone's own accelerometer and magnetometer read straight from the browser — a spirit level, a compass and a plumb line, with nothing sent anywhere.

What they share

Instruments, not illustrations.

Each desk reads the agency's own feed — the national weather services, the USGS, NOAA, the tide stations, the river gauges, the grid operators — and draws exactly what came back. Nothing is smoothed, nothing is modelled here, and nothing is projected forward: these are readings, not an argument. When a feed is quiet or late the page says so, because a gap in real data is worth more than a filled panel.