Is there an obvious explanation for why the frequency of dense urban cities stop halfway through north Africa?

I'm thinking about putting a 2024 radar loop thread, but in the mean time have my favorite radar loop of 2024! From 2024/01/19: Highly vorticious snowband over Lake Michigan produced mesovortices spiraling south for HOURS! One of the prettiest things KGRR has ever caught.

The one-two punch of people using ChatGPT instead of learning to write and people thinking every book should be “translated” into third grade English is making me increasingly pessimistic about the future. Throw in not having an attention span longer than a TikTok, and it’s dire.

Maps showing how fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s

1923 map by W. E. Myer of the primary Native American trails in the southeast.

'Put it into Blender and see what happens' #4 Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation. (Monthly data since 1958 by TerraClimate) observablehq.com/@joewdavies/bi… #maps #blender #climate #sciart #cartography #gis

A day I’ll never forget. It will be talked about for generations.

Well folks, here it is... These are the close-to-final Highest Snowfall Totals By State Map! These are just incredible numbers that we will not see broken in a very long time. Jaw-dropping 10" of snow reported in Milton, FL, absolutely smashing the old record of 4".

My problem with AI is that it’s a solution without a problem.

When someone asks me to describe my GIS career.

I'll be honest guys, this is a bad sign for society

At every single level of our ecology, we are being poisoned for immense profit and almost nothing is done about it.

Global Warming Has Accelerated Groundbreaking new paper by James Hansen (James Edward Hansen) et al.

The richest man in the world is sitting at the Resolute desk, about to defund your public school. Trump should stop him.

🚨Insects are disappearing and it is a huge biodiversity loss! 🦋🐝🪰 Find out more about the global threats to insects. 🎨: Wagner et al. (2021)

🌊🧊📉 Global Sea Ice Area and Extent have reached an all-time daily low

the national parks system makes up about 0.004% of the federal budget and is (by far) the best thing american government has ever achieved. the decision to destroy the crown jewels of our country to save what amounts to effectively no money is fucking insane

can we ratio this fucking asshole and show him the real majority please

Historically, free speech in the US has been fought for by the left, from the 20th century labor movement to the student movement of the 60s. And no one else will, because right-wing self-proclaimed "free speech absolutists" abandon the issue as soon as it's convenient.