This winter is so broken.
We don’t even bother having a diurnal temperature cycle anymore.
The year is slowly coming to an end and everything and everyone quits work, so, ok, fine with me, we’ve had enough weather for the year.

Sun came out today.

I kind of like the analogy of being able to retrain/rewire your brain like an artificial neural network but to be used with caution, or as this article quotes Tomaso Poggio (MIT): artificial neurons are just “caricatures of biological neurons”.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-is-nothing-like-a-brain-and-thats-ok-20250430/

Spread the word to those most at risk of stroke and heart attack.
The flu increases the risk, vaccination reduces it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03598-0

Love the time of year when you’re officially allowed to listen to Christmas music all day long 🤭♥️.
Happy Holidays 🎄!

Gift idea for #Christmas, the magnificent Zoom book by Istvan Banyai.
It’s very old but timeless. A wordless picture book that zooms out, from the details to the big picture.
A friend‘s child called it a ‘magic book’ and it really is, for both kids and adults. It’s a great way to learn about perspective and to remember to take a step back and reconsider the importance of things.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/324143/zoom-by-istvan-banyai/

Nice summary of the history and current state of Machine Learning/AI in weather forecasting in this @ECMWF publication on the occasion of their 50th anniversary.

https://www.ecmwf.int/bibcite/reference/81699

Traditional weather forecast models are based on physical equations and run for hours on large supercomputers, which means, here, AI can actually SAVE energy contrary to popular belief.

But will AI be able to learn the underlying physics beyond replicating the past?
As climate change progresses, the future will increasingly look very different from the past and how well will AI cope with that?
I‘m curious and open but I think it‘s too early to come to a conclusion.

“As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI”

That’s a nice article but it doesn’t reflect what the title says (and it shouldn’t).

Hurricane forecasting is a special category but here as well as generally in weather forecasting, I don’t think we are at a point where we could drop one or the other. AI has important applications in meteorology for sure but I think it’s still unclear if everything can be replaced by AI.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/29/nx-s1-5604290/atlantic-hurricane-season-forecast-ai-google?utm_source=bsky.app&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social

👏 #NoAfd
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/familienunternehmen-afd-reaktion-rossmann-vorwerk-100.html

#ESA:
"
Sentinel-1D delivers first images: from Antarctica to Bremen
"
"Glaciers in Antarctica, the tip of South America, as well as the city of Bremen, .. visible in .. radar images."
".. the satellite and its instruments – it carries a 12 m-long synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument – were switched on .."

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Sentinel-1D_delivers_first_images_from_Antarctica_to_Bremen

26.11.2025

#Bremen #Copernicus #Elbe #EO #Erdbeobachtung #Fernerkundung #GMES #Matera #Radar #Raumfahrt #SAR #Satelliten #Sentinel1D #Sentinel1 #SpaceFlight

The next chapter of European tourism is greener, smarter and more inclusive ✨

The 2026 Smart Tourism champions are already showing the way forward.

🇫🇮 Tampere is raising the bar with a sustainable, community-focused approach that creates long-lasting value.

🇭🇷 Dubrovnik is redefining responsible tourism through data, long-term planning and strong local engagement.

Europe can remain the world’s leading destination by being the most responsible.

More: https://link.europa.eu/DbThfh

👏 #NoAfd
„Rechtlich befinden sich die Banken dabei auf der sicheren Seite. Die Finanzdienstleistungsaufsichtsbehörde BaFin schreibt, im Rahmen der gesetzlichen Vorgaben könnten Banken grundsätzlich frei entscheiden, mit wem sie Geschäftsbeziehungen unterhielten.“
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-kontokuendigungen-banken-100.html

Love the animations of rotating and vibrating molecules. Chemistry but fun.
If you want to learn how greenhouse gases work, check out this Quanta Magazine article.

#FossilFuels #GreenhouseGases #CO2

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quantum-mechanics-of-greenhouse-gases-20250915/

I’ve been randomly zooming into this satellite image of a Jamaican neighborhood and it’s just devastating. No tree left standing, houses without roofs or completely destroyed.

Nature is a force bigger than us. We should not mess with it. Hoping for #ClimateAction at #COP30 🙏.

Imagery taken from the #Copernicus Emergency Management Service activation for hurricane Melissa at https://mapping.emergency.copernicus.eu/activations/EMSR847/.

To cite some consequences:
“Just five years after the strike, in 1980, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was elected Iceland’s first female president — and the world’s first democratically elected female head of state.”
“The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index has rated Iceland the most gender-equal country for the last 16 years.”

Wow, first time I’m hearing about the women’s general strike in Iceland 50 years ago, fighting for more equality.
Fun fact: They called it “Women’s Day Off” instead of strike to make it sound more appealing.

https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2025/10/10/fifty-years-later-push-for-equality-continues-remembering-the-strike-that-stopped-the-nation/

European alternatives for popular services:
https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: Check out page 16 on IT security including links to more info on how to make your iPhone more secure, e.g.
https://zenodo.org/records/15696097

📚🎉 Große Freude in der Deutschen Meteorologischen Bibliothek!
Die unikale Altbestandssammlung der Deutschen Meteorologischen Bibliothek der Jahre 1483 - 1799 erfährt eine besondere Anerkennung: Die Beantragung von Fördermitteln beim Bundesbeauftrage der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM) im Rahmen des "Sonderprogramms zur Erhaltung schriftlichen Kulturguts in Deutschland" war erfolgreich!
Bewertet werden die Anträge durch @originalerhalt.

#WissenBewahren