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.
How Many Rain Days Does a Jobsite Actually Lose?
Construction contracts count working days from the weather record, and the standards that govern the count never say how to read it. Read hour by hour rather than day by day, about half the days the record calls rain days carried no qualifying rain while crews were on site — and the record itself turns out to have quietly changed its reporting resolution for two decades.
Does Federal Disaster Assistance Follow the Damage?
If Hail Falls in the US, How Big Is It?
Storm Nights, Counted
The Drought Relief Gap
Crop Damage: Nature's Number-One Offender
It's Always Hurricane Season Somewhere
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 — 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.
Water & Rivers
Streamflow, tides, and water-quality networks from USGS, NOAA, and the EPA.
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.