Earth · twenty-six instruments
A monitoring station
for one planet.
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. Most of them read a public scientific feed directly — the national weather services, the USGS, NOAA, the tide stations, the river gauges, the grid operators — and draw what actually came back.
Pick a door
Holidays
Every day off, everywhere
Every public holiday in about 110 countries off one open wire, local names and long weekends, today marked, and Easter computed on the page for any year.
Weather
The forecast, and the warnings
48 hours of temperature drawn and seven days barred for any city by name, National Weather Service warnings at US points, a 42-city world board.
Conditions
New York: air, water and sun
New York by measurement — the air, the wind, the river, the ground, the sun’s weather and the sky, each figure off the wire its own desk reads.
Windy
The live weather console
Current conditions and eleven instruments, 24 hours, seven days out, forty years of archive, satellite channels and the severe-weather wire.
Quake
Earthquakes, in the last hour
Every event USGS has posted in the past hour, day or week, drawn as it arrives — newest first, ringed by magnitude, counted by band and depth.
Hurricane
The storm, while it is happening
Every active cyclone in the National Hurricane Center’s own file, read live: wind, pressure, position and movement, on a drawn basin map.
Tides
High and low, at your beach
Any of NOAA’s tide-prediction stations: the next high and low with a countdown, today’s table, and the six-minute prediction drawn as a curve.
Rivers
River levels, and what is flooding
Live hydrographs for 75 USGS gauges: seven days of stage and discharge, with NOAA’s action, minor, moderate and major flood stages ruled across.
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
Every upcoming launch off Launch Library 2, counted down only where the T-0 is honestly known, and the ISS crossing a hand-drawn world map.
ATLAS
The whole planet, drawn
Every country, river, lake and city on a map this site draws itself — no tiles, no provider — with areas measured off the polygons on screen.
ORBIT
The live sky, drawn
The station, the brightest hundred and the whole Starlink shell on a drawn globe, every position computed in your browser from orbital elements.
Flights
What is in the air right now
Live aircraft positions over fifteen world cities, drawn with trails and range rings, routed through the estate’s own relay so no key is needed.
Transit
When the next train actually comes
The New York subway board: any of 496 stations, the next trains both ways off the MTA’s own realtime feed, decoded in the browser with no key.
Traffic
Seventy-six cities, and how fast they move
The twelve largest cities of every continent: road speeds drawn live for New York and Madrid, alerts everywhere else, picked off a world map.
Grid
What is powering Europe, right now
Any of 15 European countries, its last 48 hours of electricity drawn fuel by fuel, with the current generation mix live as a proportional bar.
Clockwork
World clocks, and where the sun is
Drawn clocks for 64 cities with daylight tinted from the sun’s real altitude, NOAA sunrise and twilight, and an orrery scrubbable fifty years.
Sensor
The instruments already in your hand
The phone’s own accelerometer and magnetometer read from the browser — a spirit level, a compass and a plumb line, with the readings kept on the phone.
The Moon
Tonight’s moon, computed
The near side as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mapped it, lit by arithmetic — true phase, the terminator, distance and the next four phases.
Wildfire
Every active US fire, NIFC live
Every active US wildland fire in NIFC’s WFIGS layer, read browser-direct — acres, containment, cause and date, biggest first, on a drawn coastline.
Airports
Which airports are delayed, right now
The FAA’s own airspace status file as a board that goes amber and red — ground stops, delay programmes, closures with their NOTAM, 119 airports drawn on a map.
Travel Disruptions
Every disrupted U.S. airport, right now
The FAA’s live airspace status ranked worst first: ground stops, delay programs, delays and closures, each with how long it has been in effect, on a map and by state.
Asteroids
Every near miss, counted down honestly
Every object passing inside 0.05 au in the coming weeks, off JPL’s own table — miss distance in lunar distances, plus the fireball log on a world map.
Volcano
US volcanoes above normal
Every US volcano the USGS holds above NORMAL / GREEN — code, level and the observatory’s own notice — ringed on a drawn coastline.
Bikes
Where the bikes and the docks are, now
Citi Bike by default, any GBFS system by choice — every station's free bikes and docks, emptiest and fullest ranked, on a map drawn from the feed.
Gleason
The 1892 flat-earth map, deep-zoomed, measured against the globe
Alexander Gleason's New Standard Map of the World, Buffalo 1892, from the Boston Public Library's scan: zoom anywhere, find a place, and measure any route both as a straight line on his paper and as the true distance on the Earth.