The World's Pulse
Real-time climate intelligence from governmental and scientific sources — earthquakes, air quality, ocean conditions, drought, space weather, and more. We ingest only measured reality: the raw numbers straight off the instruments, never models, forecasts, or projections.
Every measurement lands in a Dex — an indexed catalog where each entry is a single real thing (one earthquake, one monitoring station, one satellite). As new readings arrive they accrete onto that entry's own time-series, each traceable to its source: a living dossier per object, never averaged into a summary or smoothed into a trend line.
It's Always Hurricane Season Somewhere
We charted every tropical cyclone since 1842 — 13,547 storms. Because the two hemispheres peak about five months apart, the planet is never storm-free: across 56 years of complete records not one month comes up empty, and even the quietest, May, keeps about five storms turning.
First Light on a Real Storm: A Fleet-Scale Drag Sensor Meets Dst −150
Does the Moon Trigger Strong Earthquakes? A 53-Year Global Test
Tornado Alley Is Drifting Southeast, Not Racing East
Solar Wind Data Predicts Geomagnetic Storms Four to Eight Hours Ahead
UFO Reports Don't Cluster Around US Earthquakes Across 104 Years of Public Data
Seven Public Sensor Layers Stay Quiet Across Ten Skinwalker Ranch Filming Days
What We Monitor
Around 70 measured data streams across 7 dex families and ~46 sources — every one a record of something that physically happened. A dozen of them:
Earthquakes
Every seismic event from USGS, EMSC, GFZ, and ISC — magnitude, depth, and location.
Weather
Surface temperature, wind, and precipitation from Open-Meteo, NOAA, and global station networks.
Tropical Cyclones
Every storm's observed track since 1842, from IBTrACS best-track and live NHC fixes.
Space Weather
Solar wind, X-ray flares, CMEs, and geomagnetic storms from DSCOVR, GOES, and DONKI.
Severe Weather
Tornadoes, hail, damaging wind, and warnings from the NWS and SPC.
Gravitational Waves
Confirmed black-hole and neutron-star mergers from the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA network.
Cosmic Rays
The particle flux from deep space, tracked by ground neutron monitors worldwide.
Water & Rivers
Streamflow, tides, and water-quality networks from USGS, NOAA, and the EPA.
Satellites & Orbit
Every catalogued object and its measured orbital decay, from the CelesTrak feed.
Wildfire
Active fire detections and burn events across the fire season.
Radiation
Background radiation from Safecast's global sensor network and EPA RadNet.
Land & Agriculture
Land use, forest cover, and agricultural production, tracked year by year.
How It Works
Ingest
Automated fetchers pull data from government APIs every 60 seconds to 24 hours, plus we crawl vast data libraries from servers around the world.
Normalize
Raw data is staged in DuckDB, then normalized into a unified schema with full lineage tracking.
Serve
Clean, consistent data served through a REST API, interactive maps, and this site.