One of the drivers of that decision (apart from some probably theoretically solvable ones around structures and loading gauges) was a desire to traffic calm the Maréchaux. Not sure they fully anticipated just how many people would end up using the T3s…
Ahh; that makes sense, thanks
Yeah, there’s a high-speed line north-south a bit east of Frankfurt, but unfortunately nothing E-W until you hit Halle…
(@alonlevy.bsky.social
have you ever seen anything on why W Germany planned the first HSL where it is? (Instead of, say, on the MUC - Stuttgart - FRA - Rhein/Ruhr corridor))
Tbf, Ryanair doesn’t pay taxes on its jet fuel
Though otoh it’s included in Navigo passes, which most locals passing through are assumed to have, so it’s meant to be a tourist tax
I know everyone is very excited, but
Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
no one knows that magnitude though, one of my favorite little quiz questions is how many flights (or flight pax) there are per day in the US alone, people tend to be an order of magnitude off on the low side
;) bsky.app/profile/ksch...
Fun fact, there are ski resorts with total lift capacities of around 300,000 pphpd
My favorite coffee shop has a copy lying around, so I’m running out of excuses @drkatemarvel.bsky.social ;)
(and keep an eye out soon for the paper that we built this dataset for...)
So sorry, @kellyhereid.bsky.social , it's another downscaled temperature dataset 🫣, but I think there's a great, if specific, use case for this one...
See:
📈 Links to the data: app.earthmover.io/marketplace/... , app.earthmover.io/marketplace/...
📜 Our preprint here for all the details, caveats, etc.: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
💻 Sample code to access the data natively in xarray: github.com/ks905383/bcd...
The best part is, the BCD-ME is freely available in Analysis-Ready, Cloud Optimized zarr stores in @earthmover.io 's new Data Marketplace. It's nearly 100 TB uncompressed, but Earthmover and the zarr/dask/xarray ecosystem make using it easier and more seamless than climate data has ever been.
The BCD-ME is:
- 300+ runs (sampling internal variability ✅) from
- 12 CMIP6-era Large Ensembles (model uncertainty ✅),
- Bias-corrected and downscaled to 4 reanalysis products ('ground-truth' uncertainty ✅)
- on GWLs (bring your own warming trajectory priors, or pick, say, a Paris Agreement world)
🚨We're excited to announce our initial launch of the Bias-Corrected and Downscaled Massive Ensemble (BCD-ME), the largest collection of analysis-ready future temperature data out there, ideal for getting a better sense of what's driving the _climate_ spread in climate impact projections!
🧵 below:
"2021–2023: Extreme Years of Global Drought in the Context of Long- and Short-Term Hydroclimate Trends"
New work, led by LDEO PhD student Aandishah Samara (w/ JE Smerdon, R Seager):
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥
Re: the deep floor plates (have heard it’s a downstream consequence of certain earthquake standards?), what percentage of office workers are effectively working in windowless basements 😬😬
Tbf, in the days before antibiotics……….
You’d think this would be the logical conclusion a service designed mainly with people using those terminals in mind :/ the Chicago equivalent I wrote up a decade ago was that you could catch 90% of riders with fare gates at 5 terminal stations, and another few percent with 5 more
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
And with tilting technology too, really forward thinking of them ;)
There are way more tourists in Bangkok, Istanbul, and NYC than in Barcelona, Venice, and Dubrovnik, but they’ve got enough going on around the tourists that the tourism doesn’t drown out the real life.
(And I will add that this snow was a lot less dense than last months’; but still)
(Of course 30% still sucks if you need mobility help or pushing a stroller, but it’s often so much worse 😬)
Anecdotally it felt like a lot more crosswalks were shoveled than even after a month ago (and way more than the one big one I remember during Adams’). I’d say maybe about 30% of crosswalks without a decent path on my commute this morning.
+ depending on definition, a lot of clusters of 30+ story residential (eg Les Olympiades in the 13th)
(And also some Amtrak-Metra connections involve a half-hour+ wait at homewood, or at least did when I last checked this, at which point it’s not much of a benefit)
