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[?]Jon Lord » 🌐
@jonlord@mastodon.world

Is It Still Called JFK ?

(Details In The AltText) (A Repeat)

This is a black and white photo in landscape format of a busy airport taxiway surrounded by fog with a long line of aircraft waiting to takeoff. JFK, New York (2011).

One third of the way to the right of the left edge of the photo is a long solid line stretching along the centre of the taxiway and away from the camera. A short distance to the right of the centre line (about ten cm) is a line of lights inset into the tarmac, spaced every few metres. About ten metres to the left and right of the centre line are two parallel solid lines marking the edge of the taxiway, one either side, though the tarmac continues for a distance of another five or ten metres beyond. Further to the right is a wide grass area before a small portion of a parallel runway is in view. Surrounding this scene is a bright, white, morning fog with a visibility of no more than five hundred metres. In front of the camera is a row of five aircraft on the taxiway waiting for their turn to take off. The closest aircraft is about ten metres from the camera, is a Boeing 737 narrow body, shorthaul aircraft with two jet engines slung under the wings and small winglets on the wingtips. Beyond the queue of aircraft is a further larger aircraft, about five hundred metres away, at right angles to the taxiway and is on the runway and starting its takeoff roll, this aircraft is partially obscured by the fog. Above and beyond is filled with a large body of bright, morning fog.

Alt...This is a black and white photo in landscape format of a busy airport taxiway surrounded by fog with a long line of aircraft waiting to takeoff. JFK, New York (2011). One third of the way to the right of the left edge of the photo is a long solid line stretching along the centre of the taxiway and away from the camera. A short distance to the right of the centre line (about ten cm) is a line of lights inset into the tarmac, spaced every few metres. About ten metres to the left and right of the centre line are two parallel solid lines marking the edge of the taxiway, one either side, though the tarmac continues for a distance of another five or ten metres beyond. Further to the right is a wide grass area before a small portion of a parallel runway is in view. Surrounding this scene is a bright, white, morning fog with a visibility of no more than five hundred metres. In front of the camera is a row of five aircraft on the taxiway waiting for their turn to take off. The closest aircraft is about ten metres from the camera, is a Boeing 737 narrow body, shorthaul aircraft with two jet engines slung under the wings and small winglets on the wingtips. Beyond the queue of aircraft is a further larger aircraft, about five hundred metres away, at right angles to the taxiway and is on the runway and starting its takeoff roll, this aircraft is partially obscured by the fog. Above and beyond is filled with a large body of bright, morning fog.

    [?]Dragofix » 🌐
    @Dragofix@veganism.social

    [?]Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡 » 🌐
    @KO6YQ@pnw.zone

    Thunderstorms are crossing the Portland, Oregon area south-to-north into southeastern Washington State. The clouds seem to have capped the high temperatures short of the forecasted 100F/37C.

    NWS radar snapshot showing a line of thunderstorms crossing Portland, Oregon

    Alt...NWS radar snapshot showing a line of thunderstorms crossing Portland, Oregon

      [?]Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡 » 🌐
      @KO6YQ@pnw.zone

      Who's surprised about thunderstorms in Oregon & Washington? There's always someone who says we "never" get thunderstorms. I heard the same thing when I lived in California. Thunderstorms are weird that at least small ones happen far more often than most people realize. Meteorologists & pilots are trained to recognize cumulonimbus clouds, or storm cells on weather radar. Without such training, most people need to hear thunder or see lightning to recognize a thunderstorm.

        [?]Yakyu Night Owl » 🌐
        @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world

        The completely predictable thunderstorm that is going on right now is why we don't trust forecasters as much as our eyes.

        This was a tip in from a stepladder.

          [?]Amy » 🌐
          @littlestbee@c.im

          Good morning! Once we returned to the base lodge the improved immensely.

            [?]Dragofix » 🌐
            @Dragofix@veganism.social

            Well-designed urban street plantings provide relief from summer heat phys.org/news/2026-07-urban-st

              [?]Dragofix » 🌐
              @Dragofix@veganism.social

              [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
              @Zf@c.im

              [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
              @Zf@c.im

              [?]Bean 🇺🇸🇻🇪 [He/Him/His] » 🌐
              @TechBean@mstdn.social

              NYC metro now getting tornado warnings.

                [?]Janet [she/her] » 🌐
                @Janet_52square@sunny.garden

                4/3 (oops) The cause of this drought is a high pressure system sitting mid-Atlantic which is being caught between southern weather patterns pushing north and northern ice melt/higher temperatures pushing northern weather fronts south.
                This high is storing heat out at sea and evaporating sea water which currently has nowhere to go. While we are all needing rain, the likely outcome of a summer weather pattern like this is storms- and storms which have been powered by a continuous high pressure ‘battery’ or energy store for weeks.
                This is so very far from the normal tracking of weekly changeable weather across the Atlantic to the Western Seaboard of the UK it is hard to imagine or prepare for - there’s certainly a lot of unpredictability in it - but in basic terms we are likely to be in for a wild autumn after such a hot summer.

                A clip from the UK Met Office pressure video for this week. Showing an enormous area of high pressure off the west coast of Ireland and weak weather fronts curling round it from the north.

                Alt...A clip from the UK Met Office pressure video for this week. Showing an enormous area of high pressure off the west coast of Ireland and weak weather fronts curling round it from the north.

                  [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
                  @Zf@c.im

                  Satellite TV --

                  Do not open umbrellas
                  Let a fall.
                  (that's what! it wants.)


                    [?]tomo :flipboard: » 🌐
                    @tomo@flipboard.social

                    On the morning of July 20, the temperature reached 35 degrees Celsius in central Tokyo, it was central Tokyo's first mosho-bi in 2026. This is 13 days later than last year. Mosho-bi is a day on which the temperature rises to 35 degrees Celsius or above.

                      [?]tomo :flipboard: » 🌐
                      @tomo@flipboard.social

                      On July 20, the rainy season (tsuyu in Japanese) appears to have ended in the Kanto-Koshin region including Tokyo. This is 1 day later than usual and 22 days later than last year.

                        [?]tomo :flipboard: » 🌐
                        @tomo@flipboard.social

                        7月20日、関東甲信地方が梅雨明けしたとみられます(速報値)。平年より1日遅く、昨年より22日遅い梅雨明け。

                          [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                          @Dragofix@veganism.social

                          [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                          @Dragofix@veganism.social

                          [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                          @Dragofix@veganism.social

                          More than 2,700 died as result of heat waves in England, researchers say phys.org/news/2026-07-died-res

                            [?]The Mirror: The Heart of Britain [Unofficial] » 🌐
                            @mirror.co.uk@web.brid.gy

                            Spain's hottest week of summer as 45C scorcher hits Brit tourist spots next week

                            The high temperatures will affect southeastern Spain, Guadalquivir valley, Ebro valley, northeastern depressions, Pyrenees valleys and inland Mallorca

                            Spain's hottest week of summer as 45C scorcher hits Brit tourist spots next week

                            Alt...Spain's hottest week of summer as 45C scorcher hits Brit tourist spots next week

                            [?]Simon Zerafa » 🌐
                            @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange

                            Looks like raindear 😟🤷‍♂️

                            A wide shot of a bright sky filled with large, billowing white and grey clouds above lush green vegetation. 

Patches of blue sky are visible through the dense cloud cover. On the left, a vertical wooden pole stands in front of dark green trees. 

Two light pink balloons are tied to a thin wire or cord near the bottom left corner. A thick line of various green bushes and foliage spans across the lower half of the frame.

                            Alt...A wide shot of a bright sky filled with large, billowing white and grey clouds above lush green vegetation. Patches of blue sky are visible through the dense cloud cover. On the left, a vertical wooden pole stands in front of dark green trees. Two light pink balloons are tied to a thin wire or cord near the bottom left corner. A thick line of various green bushes and foliage spans across the lower half of the frame.

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                              [?]slamr » 🌐
                              @slamr@hub.uckermark.social

                              [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                              @Dragofix@veganism.social

                              [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                              @Dragofix@veganism.social

                              [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                              @Dragofix@veganism.social

                              Record-breaking ocean drilling reveals why Japan's 2011 tsunami was so deadly sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

                                [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                                @Dragofix@veganism.social

                                [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                                @Dragofix@veganism.social

                                [?]isixtyfive » 🌐
                                @isixtyfive@mastodon.world

                                Line of storms moving in...

                                Kbgm radar

                                Alt...Kbgm radar

                                  [?]Ian Kluft ✅✈️🎈🌋 » 🌐
                                  @ikluft@avgeek.social

                                  That's a long way to go only to turn around. New York JFK Airport is ground-stopped for thunderstorms. Alaska 18 PDX-JFK is diverting back toward PDX after over 1-1/2 hours, near the MT/ND border. This is a quirk of an airline with all its hubs on the West Coast. They have ground crews at other airports which could handle the plane while it waits. But maybe so many flights diverting at once left dispatchers unable to find enough gates.☹️ flightaware.com/live/flight/N9

                                  screenshot of FlightAware ground track of Alaska 18 PDX-JFK on July 17, 2026 - diverting back to its origin PDX after over 1-1/2 hours when JFK was ground-stopped for thunderstorms.

                                  Alt...screenshot of FlightAware ground track of Alaska 18 PDX-JFK on July 17, 2026 - diverting back to its origin PDX after over 1-1/2 hours when JFK was ground-stopped for thunderstorms.

                                    [?]Paul Chambers🚧 » 🌐
                                    @paul@oldfriends.live

                                    Weather report: Hot, rain and storms, Wind blowing from 'Every Which Way But Loose.'

                                    Real radar image from a few moments ago.

                                    radar showing wind is blowing in all directions

                                    Alt...radar showing wind is blowing in all directions

                                      [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
                                      @Zf@c.im

                                      Our Lady Lyndsay Of The Satellite & The Radar says:

                                      "FriYAY is Pretty, Beautiful: GTFO."


                                      and

                                        [?]swanksalot » 🌐
                                        @swanksalot@toot.community

                                        stepped outside for one second, it is bad out there guys. Like visiting a city dump where they still burn garbage – smells like plastic and smoldering diapers. A real potpourri of disgusting. Thanks to Mitch McConnell and his buddies at Exxon, elsewhere, this is going to be a new normal

                                          [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
                                          @Zf@c.im

                                          Just received a text from a cousin who is married to the daughter of the company’s taxi operations manager at central station in the capital city of Kualait (in Central Parkis- something) that has discussed with the College of Colleagues of Councillors in Conjunction with the taxi service staff about the new distribution system discovered the disruption: that it is hotter than the heavens above ☝️👆 right now.

                                          &
                                          and

                                            [?]Mark Ingalls » 🌐
                                            @ingalls@m.ai6yr.org

                                            My SIL is at a church youth camp near Mount Hood and sent me a video of her hiking through a thunderstorm in the woods yesterday. I inquired further and she told me the leaders didn't know it was going to storm.

                                            I reached out to our bishop and we're going to put together a workshop so that the adult leaders can be empowered to know what to look for to avoid this in the future rather than relying on a simple phone weather app.

                                            I don't fault people for not knowing, but now that I know it's a problem I feel like it's my responsibility as a meteorologist to help improve the situation. For now they're proactively texting me asking for updates through the end of the campout. Glad to see they're doing what they can.

                                              [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
                                              @Zf@c.im

                                              [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
                                              @Zf@c.im

                                              [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
                                              @Zf@c.im

                                              UPDATE —

                                              Hot. FEELS (smell) LIKE Smoke.

                                              and