Glen

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Google Map of M 7.7 earthquake - 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
USGS automated earthquake information page: M 7.7 - 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia: 2026-08-14 21:58:21 (UTC) 8.310°S 121.352°E 10.0 km depth
New York Times graph of Trump's approval rating, from multiple polls. The little plateau has broken, restoring the long downtrend. The current poll aggregate is still a remarkable 37%.
ABS graph of total arrivals and departures to/from Australia; monthly figures.
Graph of ABS 'net overseas migration' through December 2025 (latest data), quarterly annualised seasonally adjusted, with net permanent and long-term arrivals through June 2026 (latest quarterly data) dotted in red -- also seasonally adjusted, and scaled to match net migration over 2000-2019 (x0.81).
BOM ACCESS-G prognostic surface chart for Thursday next week.
Ship tracking map of USS Abraham Lincoln, last location off Sumartera, 20 January.
Map of Po River Valley, northern Italy, WP.
Graph of snow depths at Deep Creek near Cabramurra since 1956, with traces for the mean and median, the 2025 season, and for 2026. Awaiting update.
Snowy Hydro's hydrological database plot of its new Spencers Creek automatic snow depth gauge, currently showing a touch over 100 cm.
Graph of annual snow depth at Spencers Creek near Charlotte Pass since 1954, with traces for the mean and median, the 2025 season, and for 2026. The latest depth is 94.5 cm on 13 August.
Long hydrograph, Po River at Pontelagoscuro, through 2022. July 2022 is by far the lowest flow on record, at just 170 m³/s.
Po River at Pontelagoscuro, 21st Century water level hydrograph.
Graph of Australian federal two party preferred polling, Labor : One Nation, since the beginning of the year, pollster-reported. Recent One Nation support appears to be declining slightly.
Graph of Australian federal two party preferred polling, Labor : L/NP, since the last election, with LOESS trends that are broken at the Liberal Party leadership change. The trend since then is nearly flat.
Graph of federal first-preference voting intention polling since the last election. One Nation support is now in downtrend, most of it apparently switching to the L/NP.
Graph of ABS 'net overseas migration' through December 2025 (latest data), quarterly annualised seasonally adjusted, with net permanent and long-term arrivals through March 2025 (latest quarterly data) dotted in red -- also seasonally adjusted, and scaled to match net migration over 2000-2019 (x0.81).
Google Maps street view of the Toowong State School property facing Sylvan Road.
Snowy Hydro's hydrological database plot of its new Spencers Creek automatic snow depth gauge, with the recent small drop (~10 cm) and subsequent small gain, highlighted.
Lake Powell storage-height curves.
Perisher Valley automatic weather station record for this morning, currently showing 0.8 mm of rain and 3.1°C. (Perisher is one of a handful of Australian gauges with an effective heater, so it can measure snow precipitation.)
Sentinel-2 satpic of northern Kosciuszko National Park yesterday morning; Derschkos Hut highlighted. There is thin but extensive snow cover across the long fire trail access to the north.
Artist’s Victoria Park layout plan after construction of the AFL (and briefly Olympic) stadium and the aquatic centre.
Queensland Government artists impression of Victoria Park after the construction of the AFL (and briefly Olympic) stadium and the aquatic centre, annotated to highlight some earthworks features visible.
An artist’s impression of Victoria Park after the construction of the AFL (and briefly Olympic) stadium and the BS aquatic centre. Illustration supplied by the Queensland Government
Queensland Government GIICA Victoria Park takeover map, adjusted to add takeover of the Spring Hill section of the public park for the private 'National Aquatic Centre'. There's exactly no park left.
Graph of Deep Creek snow depths by decade, 1960s to 2020s (to date). There is a precipitous decline -- mostly thorough earlier melt, to a bit over a third of the peak depth in the 1960s.
Combined view of BOM plots of traditional Niño3.4, top, with uptrend, and relative Niño3.4, bottom, no obvious trend.
BOM graph of traditional Niño3.4 since 1900, computation base interval 1991-2020. There is a strong uptrend, starting around 1960. The latest weekly value (+2.5°C) is shown dotted.
BOM map of the sea surface temperature boxes used for several Pacific and Indian Ocean variation indicators. Niño3.4 is a single averaging box in the central equatorial Pacific.
BOM ACCESS-G model surface chart for 10 am Monday, showing a complex cutoff low over Victoria with lots of precipitation, unfortunately mostly rain.
Graph of snow depths at Three Mile Dam near Kiandra (Selwyn Snow Resort) since 1956, with traces for the mean and median, the 2025 season, and for 2026. There's practically no snow.
Graph of snow depths at Deep Creek near Cabramurra since 1956, with traces for the mean and median, the 2025 season, and for 2026. There's almost no snow, with the typical time of season peak depth only 1-2 weeks away.
Snowy Hydro's hydrological database plot of its new Spencers Creek automatic snow depth gauge, currently showing about 90 cm after the light fall Wednesday.
Graph of annual snow depth at Spencers Creek near Charlotte Pass since 1954, with traces for the mean and median, the 2025 season, and for 2026. The latest depth is 87.1 cm on 5 August.
An aerial view of Paradise Dam on the Burnett River in Queensland.