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Wildfire incidents across the western United States, mapped and annotated in near real time by volunteers who sit listening to fire radio.
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Watch Duty sits in Live Earth Maps under Wander, filed as instant.
About this category: Live data drawn on a map: storms, earthquakes, lightning, shipping, wildlife. Open one and the planet stops being an abstraction.
Yes. Watch Duty is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Watch Duty without signing up for anything.
Yes. Watch Duty works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
Readings from thousands of air monitoring stations worldwide on one map, colour-coded from a calm green to a genuinely alarming maroon.
Satellite imagery refreshed through the day, with storm tracks, wildfire hotspots and rainfall radar layered over the top of it.
A rotating globe with every wind current on Earth drawn as moving lines, and layers underneath for ocean currents, particulates and the jet stream.
The carbon intensity of the grid across most of the world, coloured by how clean each country's electricity happens to be at this minute.
Climate averages for any city as gorgeous year-round charts: sunshine hours, muggy days, wind, and precisely when the good weather ends.
Forecasts built on a network of tens of thousands of amateur weather stations, so the reading is often from somebody on your actual street.
The planet chopped into three-metre squares, each given a three-word name, which is either brilliant or a licensing trap depending who you ask.
A relationship graph of everybody famous, cross-referenced far past the point of reason and updated constantly.
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