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#30DayMapChallenge – Day 14: Data Challenge #OpenStreetMap revisiting Veracruz on the lovely #GulfofMexico You should always trust a guide to the city from someone with no knowledge of the place.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 13: 10 minute map. Here's a map I drew of the #GulfofMexico during a work meeting.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 12: Map from 2125 of the #GulfofMexico - Just having a little fun with the inevitable(?) Chinese takeover of the world. The small text is for the Special Administrative Autonomous Region of Houston #gulfofmexico4ever

Speculative 2125 map of the Gulf of Mexico

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/climate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html

An oil rig off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif. The plan would also require new oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Since then, #drilling has been prohibited in #California state waters, which extend 3 miles from the shoreline. There has been limited drilling, & no new leasing, in federal waters off CA since the mid-1980s.

The plan would also require new #oil & #gas leasing in the eastern #GulfOfMexico…. That could prompt pushback from #Republicans from #Florida, who have opposed new drilling there ever since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig disaster devastated the state’s tourism industry.

#law #Trump

#30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Minimal Map Another #GulfofMexico map with cut paper on blue nylon

#30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Air. Air quality around the #GulfofMexico averaged (sort of) through time and space. Data via purpleair.com

Gulf of Mexico Air quality index
Data via purpleair.com

#30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog #GulfofMexico cut paper on blue fleece

It's amazing how ppl just... moved on from this story...
#deepwaterhorizon #bigoil
#GulfOfMexico #bp #documentary #frontline

#30DayMapChallenge Day 8 - Urban. Map of Veracruz, gateway to the #gulfofmexico #gulfofmexico4ever

If you've ever wanted to learn more about the Gulf of Mexico, have you considered the Wikipedia page? It's pretty solid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico

#gulfofmexico

In January, Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and did his best to strong-arm newsrooms into using its new moniker, the Gulf of America. Nine months, and many executive orders later, how is it going? Nieman Lab's Joshua Benton says the new name hasn't stuck in media, or in general use — to the extent that a Trump-loving retirement community in Florida refused to rename Gulf of Mexico Drive to Gulf of America Drive. Here's more.

https://flip.it/0MxKin

#News #Media #Journalism #TrumpAdministration #GulfOfMexico #GulfOfAmerica

#30DayMapChallenge Day 4: My Data. Where I've been around the #GulfofMexico #gulfofmexico4ever

map of where I've been in the Gulf of Mexico

WHOSE gulf, motherfucker?

#TurdReich #GulfOfMexico

Wings of the Horizon

In this photograph, a dark ocean stretches across the foreground, its surface gently rippled by low waves. The sky above is overcast, painted in muted shades of blue that suggest a quiet, contemplative hour. Just above the horizon, hundreds of black skimmers (Rynchops niger) surge through the air in a sweeping formation. Their silhouettes—long-winged and knife-beaked—fill the frame from edge to edge, extending beyond its borders as if the flock cannot be contained. Out at sea, they move as one: a living ribbon of flight etched against the sky’s soft gloom.

Discover nature's fleeting moments through my lens—visit my photo gallery to see more.

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #shosrebirds #flock #horizon #ocean #GulfofMexico #BlackSkimmers

"A vast congregation of black skimmers sweeps across the sky in a unified arc, their slender wings slicing through the air like ceremonial blades. Each bird is silhouetted against a twilight canvas—where the sky shifts from deep ocean blue to soft coral pink, suggesting either the hush of dawn or the farewell of dusk. Their long, narrow wings and distinctive beaks—lower mandibles extended like skimming tools—create a rhythmic pattern of motion, as if the flock itself were a living scroll of calligraphy unfurling across the heavens.

Below them, the ocean lies dark and rippled, a quiet witness to the aerial procession. The water reflects the muted light of the sky, echoing its colors in subdued tones. The horizon is blurred, as if the boundary between sea and sky has momentarily dissolved, allowing the birds to traverse both realms. The scene feels mythic—like a sovereign rite of passage performed by winged scribes over a coastal altar.

The flock moves not in chaos but in choreography, each skimmer attuned to the others, their flight a collective act of grace and precision. The air seems to hum with their presence, and the moment feels suspended—an offering of motion, light, and kinship to the watching world." - Microsoft Copilot

Melissa leaving Cuba, enters Gulf of Mexico, degraded to a Cat2 tropical cyclone.

Strong wind surges still affecting the N portion of Caribbean Sea.Bahamas start to get tropical storm force winds. Bermuda should start to get strong winds by Thursday mid afternoon.

974mbar, max sustained winds 100mph/155kmh at core vortex walls.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/291459.shtml

#Weather #HurricaneMelissa #Caribbean #GulfOfMexico #NOAA #NHC

#journalism #politics #jingoism #GulfOfMexico

'I wanted to check in and see how much “Gulf of America” had stuck in news media. The answer is: not very much.'

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine-months-later-that-body-of-water-down-south-is-still-the-gulf-of-mexico-to-news-outlets/

NiemanLab: Nine months later, that body of water down south is still the “Gulf of Mexico” to news outlets. “The news cycle has very much moved on; Trump leaves reporters no shortage of things to write about. But I wanted to check in and see how much ‘Gulf of America’ had stuck in news media. The answer is: not very much.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/29/niemanlab-nine-months-later-that-body-of-water-down-south-is-still-the-gulf-of-mexico-to-news-outlets/

@erininthemorning.com
Not only is #HurricaneMelissa one of the strongest #hurricanes to reach the #GulfOfMexico, but it's probably the latest in the year a Cat-5 hurricane has ever formed.

I predicted this phenomena nearly a decade ago. #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange (an earlier link has disappeared into the bitbucket.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240615171652/https://mugsysrapsheet.com/2017/09/11/two-cat-4-hurricanes-in-two-weeks-ignoring-climate-change-is-getting-very-expensive/

🥱 Oh, the groundbreaking revelation that the Gulf of Mexico is *still* called the Gulf of Mexico! 🌊 Apparently, news outlets have been too busy discovering fire to rename it "The Ocean Formerly Known As..." 🙄
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine-months-later-that-body-of-water-down-south-is-still-the-gulf-of-mexico-to-news-outlets/ #GulfOfMexico #NewsHumor #GroundbreakingRevelation #OceanFormerlyKnownAs #🤦‍♂️ #FireDiscovery #HackerNews #ngated

#GulfOfMexico

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