This visual piece on the cherry blossoms by Harry Stevens and Niko Kommenda is terrific. Definitely worth checking out.

Record global ocean warmth has just surpassed the 1-year mark, and scientists don't have complete explanations for it. Brian McNoldy pointed to 'The absurdly-large margins by which the records have been broken' as esp. noteworthy.
axios.com/2024/03/19/wea…

Where spring is blooming earlier: in most places. “Spring is trending earlier across a vast U-shaped area of land stretching from coast to coast” washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… Harry Stevens

But also worth noting that 10-day forecasts, common in weather apps, are as good as guessing.

Good news of the day:

We’ve gotten much better at weather forecasting.

How to 'discover' pi.

Randomly drop points onto a circle of radius R and a square of side length R. The number of points that land in the circle will approach 𝜋 times the number of points that land in the square.

Happy 3.14

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Has spring already arrived where you live? Harry Stevens has created another fabulous way for you to understand nature, by allowing you to look up how the timing of spring has changed in your town: washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

In Washington, DC, spring is coming 13 days earlier now than it did in 1981. It has shifted forward from March 18 to 5.

See this report from Harry Stevens and check how spring has changed in your town ⤵️
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…