I’ll start with a couple I’ve found for keeping up with atomic clock time, but this question isn’t limited to timekeeping, it can also relate to celestial events, weather, etc…
I do like the sleek and streamlined time.ms site, but according to their whois data, they only started that site a couple months ago, while time.gov has been around since 1999.
Long standing sites are preferable, but either way, what other live data sites do you people recommend?
My faves:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes
https://map.purpleair.com/Monthly (US) economic data from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ including this particular graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1CJfC
I’m a big fan of Time and Date’s Night Sky page: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/usa/knoxville
Great for learning about what stars/planets/comets/meteor showers/eclipses/etc should be visible from your location.
And if one is into stargazing, another handy resource is this Light Pollution Map: https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/
If you’re into weather tracking, I like both Windy and the regular NWS weather maps for (roughly) realtime weather maps.
Not real-time, but still cool way to explore astronomy data from the Vera C. Rubin LSST: https://skyviewer.app/
nullschool. By default, it shows air currents at surface level. You can also see some chemical levels on the atmosphere, like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide; see ocean currents and waves, as well as temperature.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic
My father was a Sr Meteorologist at EC for 40+ years and I loved learning from him. Here’s the Meteorological Service of Canada’s satellite weather data. So many things, start drilling down my friends!
A couple random IR & Visible loops you could fun around with to get some flavor. GOES-EAST and GOES-West. GOES means the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
Here’s some groovy details on the satellites: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/environment/weather/radar-satellites.html
The Met Service also provides MSC Open Data: https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-data/readme_en/ “up-to-date information on past, present and future weather conditions, climate, water and environmental information over Canada and the world”. I wish I was still into programming hardcore, I’d go bonkers with the new data they make available.
If you are anywhere near hurricane prone areas, this is the site where all the local meteorologists get their data and sometimes thier visuals: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/
Realtime state of Nordic power system https://driftsdata.statnett.no/Web/map/snpscustom
