On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Google Earth 5.2 has just got a new feature that allows you to check the weather in a certain place as it is actually happening. Yes, you can now see snowfall and rain as it is actually happening in that place. You can now see rain or snow in Google Earth.
How to enable weather on Google Earth
1. You need Google Earth 5.2
2. Enable Clouds Layer
3. Zoom in to the locations that you want to check.
This is a great boon to frequent travelers and weather buffs like surfers and pilots. You, too, can make like a meteorologist and track wet weather patterns ranging from light drizzle and snow to hurricanes and blizzards in Google Earth
Currently Google Says "our precipitation data cover some areas in North America and Europe; you can see if it’s available in certain places by enabling the radar layer".
How to enable weather on Google Earth
1. You need Google Earth 5.2
2. Enable Clouds Layer
3. Zoom in to the locations that you want to check.
Image below of rain during a hurricane in Texas
This is a great boon to frequent travelers and weather buffs like surfers and pilots. You, too, can make like a meteorologist and track wet weather patterns ranging from light drizzle and snow to hurricanes and blizzards in Google Earth
Currently Google Says "our precipitation data cover some areas in North America and Europe; you can see if it’s available in certain places by enabling the radar layer".
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