Iranian leaders move $1.5 billion into Dubai in a couple of hours. Cryptocurrency. According to US Treasury Secretary Bessent. www.the-express.com/news/us-news...

AI, humanizers, and student stress as college profs and teaching assistants make false accusations regarding student papers. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

AI, humanizers, and student stress as college profs and teaching assistants make false accusations regarding student papers. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

Beautiful crop from today's "blue marble" full disk shot from GOES-18, highlighting the atmospheric river event bringing rain to the PNW/SWBC. Check out those lovely "lows" in the Gulf of Alaska. @seattlewxguy.bsky.social @spann.bsky.social @kc3cdu.bsky.social

Still at it, hours later, with callsign DENMARK, on a flight out of Dimona (where Israel's nuclear program is based) with these looping flights over the West Bank. Gulfstream 5, 537, #738A4C. Snapshot at 0145z.

Lovely shot from Russian weather satellite METEOR MN2-4, at 2 PM this afternoon. Received and processed from the satellite's 137 MHz radio signal as it passed well E of Metro Vancouver. Good view of the head of an atmospheric river event bringing copious amounts of water to the region.

Microsoft (MSFT) and Tesla (TSLA) both released quarterly results after the closing bell today. Their share prices behaved quite differently in the hours after, even though both reported better than expected results.

Israeli military/government Gulfstream 5 left from Dimona, Israel (nuclear facility?) and now is turning back after it was over the Mediterranean.

Happy 100th anniversary to the Schrodinger equation.

Look ahead for much of February suggests temperatures above normal for Metro Vancouver and indeed much of BC and even up into Alaska. This is a probability map and not a forecast.

Major breach...

Rebound! for HF propagation that is. Here's a snapshot, well, two snapshots, showing (1) FT8 reception over 24 h while monitoring 16 frequencies from 10 to 160 m, and (2) space weather metrics and FT8 reception in CN89 (Vancouver) over the past 30 minutes.

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USN busy with a Poseidon on patrol, along with UAV 169804 at mostly 46000+ feet, over the Straits of Hormuz. Snapshots at 1620z.

Record for the number of aircraft flagged as Canadian military to appear simultaneously on my ADSBexchange tracker? 22. Nearly all are clustered in Saskatchewan or Manitoba, and most carry a flag "Allied Wings Limited Partnership". Types: B06, B412, C295, BE9L, C130, G120, TEX2.

Crop from today's GOES-16 full disk "blue marble" shot at 2130 UTC / 1:30 PM PST. Looks like Vancouver's winter "drought" will end late tomorrow as a bit of an atmospheric river brings rain ashore. @spann.bsky.social @bcstormwatch.bsky.social

People are following this USN UAV as it conducts patrols high above the Straits of Hormuz, at around 45,000 feet. This US Navy MQ-4C has been seen here frequently of late. 169804, #AE7815.

Arrived at RAF Mildenhall UK as SNOOP55. Now heading to Middle East as OLIVE29. Snapshot here at 0230z. #AE01D3 NC-135.

I've seen reports of this sort of glow before. I suppose an endpoint of the jellyfish plume seen closer to launch.

Indeed it can. I think we know of this from the space shuttle disaster over the southern States.

A CMV-22B Osprey, 169453, callsign RUDY11 appeared off Oman around 0730 UTC Monday and flew to Duqm Airport in Oman. Perhaps this tilt-rotor aircraft is associated with the USCG Abraham Lincoln. Here's how it showed for around half an hour on FlightRadar24. @osinttechnical.bsky.social @osintgeek.de

Latest mid-level water vapour 200-frame sequence from GOES-18, through 1845 UTC / 10:45 AM PST. Metro Vancouver's dry spell will end, even if only briefly.

Quick glance at aircraft traffic across the United States, and a little beyond, along with the current "Misery Index" for cancelled and delayed flights. Snapshots at 1815z / 1:15 PM EST. @seattlewxguy.bsky.social @spann.bsky.social

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At one time this was one of the biggest sellers for software. Obviously it didn't go far with me as it is still shrink-wrapped. Must've been given to me as a promo item.

What's up, or rather down with SIRIUSXM? All the channels are intermittent, in the car. Ice on your antennas? Power outages and generators kicking off and on? Satellite failing? Never experienced anything like it.

Beauty! Crop from this afternoon's "blue marble" shot from GOES-18 at 2130 UTC / 1:30 PM PST. Received and processed in Vancouver via 1.7 GHz radio signal.

How cool is this! Canadian flags as transmitted via the WRMI Shortwave Radiogram. If you are here in BC, or nearby WA State, try again tonight, Sunday into Monday via RMI on 5850 kHz, 0800-0830 UTC. Assembled by @popshopradio.bsky.social from Hope BC.

USCG Abraham Lincoln remaining out of sight. Now at 5 days and almost 12 h since the last reported AIS position as the group exited the Straits of Malacca W of Kuala Lumpur. If you want to check on the ship's status through Marinetraffic.com, use this link: www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/...

A look at air travel across the United States along with a current "Misery Index" as snow and ice wreak havoc across around 22 states, affecting half the population of the country. Snapshots at 1600z / 11 AM EST.

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Four USAF Clipper flights aloft at 0425z, three of the "A" variety, and one "B". The "A" flights have CNVR callsigns, and the "B" is a SAM flight.

Another peek at half a dozen internal flights in Iranian airspace, at 0415z / 7:45 AM local Sunday morning in Tehran. Mostly business as usual, although a few major international carriers are rerouting to skirt Iran.

Sadly, true. Driven in large measure by one particular province.

GOES-18 crop from today's "blue marble" shot at 2100 UTC / 1 PM PDT. Received and processed in Vancouver with my own ground station.

USS Abraham Lincoln data from MarineTraffic.com. Note last AIS position (exiting the Malacca Strait) received almost 5 days ago.

Six "heavies" over Iran at 1730z.

Morning forecast for SW BC.

All quiet on the space weather front after the week that was anything but! Metrics as of the UTC change of day from the 23 to 24th of January, at 4 PM PST / 0000 UTC. @spann.bsky.social @bcnewsaddict.bsky.social

Beautiful crop from today's "blue marble" shot from GOES-18. Showcasing two items: the return of California's tule fog to the San Joaquim Valley, and offshore ship "contrails" in the high pressure zone. @seattlewxguy.bsky.social @bcnewsaddict.bsky.social @spann.bsky.social

Metro Vancouver.

Vancouver's General Fusion, which has been working on various approaches to fusion-powered energy since 2002, going public. dailyhive.com/vancouver/ge...

Some internal Iranian air traffic at 0445z / 0815 AM local Tehran time Friday morning.

Good example of Doppler shift at play from the ISS FM voice repeater as it passed over Vancouver. This shows the 70 cm downlink. Displaying here in SkyRoof.

Projection for the USCG Abraham Lincoln based on 20 knots from last AIS position off Banda Aceh, Indonesia. At ~2300 km from last reported position, placing the group half way between Sri Lanka's southern tip and Somalia. Somewhat ironically in the vicinity of the Chagos Islands group.

METEOR M2-3 at 10 AM this morning as the Russian weather satellite passed nearly directly overhead for Vancouver. Image received and processed with my own ground station. Note the fog-filled valleys in the BC interior. A little of the Rocky Mountains Trench is visible. @seattlewxguy.bsky.social

Who is chartering this Air Canada Dreamliner taking 300 to Kona from Kelowna? www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna... @bobmackin.bsky.social @bcnewsaddict.bsky.social

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It's now a day and 17 hours since the last AIS report from CVN-72, the USS Abraham Lincoln. Here are some background details as presented through MarineTraffic.com. The last shot shows the last available position of the carrier and its support fleet.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi returning to Cairp from WEF2026 in Davos, Switzerland. EGY01, SU-GGG, #010024, A340-200.