This week the Cornell Lab of Ornithology released fine scale population trends maps for over 500 North American #birds based on #eBird data. These maps are the culmination of several years of research and development by the #eBird Status and Trends team, and all this work was only possible because of the amazing community of eBirders who contributed 43.8 million checklists to the dataset we used to estimate population trends.
Learn more and view the interactive maps at https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends/trends-maps
Six weeks ago I first mentioned the potential of a “Falaise Gap” type encirclement in Kherson on @CNN with the potential of the capture of 10-25,000 Russian soldiers. Ukraine reports indicate a rout close to the scale of that is happening.
If RU did not prepare for this & thousands of soldiers are killed/captured, it cements the known incompetence of the RU Army. If soldiers are captured, Ukraine MUST treat them under Geneva convention rules.
@codykirkp never heard the term "rainfall radar" before but I suppose it's close to "weather radar" which we use.
I have noticed more since I live in the South though that the radar picks up more evaporating precip from warm fronts moving north. Radar sites the rain but it's not hitting the ground yet. Messes with a lot of people's weather apps.
I suppose they don't have much of that in the UK...
Tonight's national weather radar is full of activity. What's left of #HurricaneNicole is spinning in the southeast; rain along the cold front from Wisconsin to Oklahoma; heavy snow in North Dakota and Minnesota. And the appearance of nighttime bugs, bats, and other flyers across the southeast, too!
@admitsWrongIfProven Sorry, by build out, I mean, is there any public push to put in new public transport infrastructure?
@admitsWrongIfProven Is there any willingness from the public to build out instead. None here is why I ask, so we end up having to use the stick.
@admitsWrongIfProven I think there is a point to going after cars in a roundabout way.
Charging for parking causes less demand for cars in certain areas.
If there are less cars, would that make public transport faster or more efficient?
In my city, the busses might face less traffic. There would be less traffic to challenge pedestrians or bicycles.
These aren't huge to start
but that's before considering some additional revenue from charging for parking.
Here are some of the basic implications of Potential Temperature ( θ ):
Space close to Earth is extremely hot despite the temperature
The core of the earth and any other planet is extremely cold despite the temperature.
These are typically opposite of intuitive concepts, but are true nonetheless.
We can observe Potential Temperature ( θ ) in nature.
From hiking in the mountains, we know that it's cooler when we go up. Snow falls on the tops of the mountains first. Etc.
But we also know that warm air should generally rise because it's less dense.
And this is where Potential Temperature comes in. If you were to bring that mountain air down to the surface pressure, it would expand, the added pressure on it would warm it. The mountain air would be WARMER than the other air at the surface.
Thus the atmosphere is stacked how you believe it should be. With less dense ( higher potential temp) air on top of more dense ( lower potential temp) air.
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