Post by Roberta Boscolo

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay To mark the celebration today, I am sharing this weather app that translates the conditions outside your window into one of 89 Mark Rothko paintings. Created by the finnish designer Joonas Virtanen, Current Rothko reads your location, the time of day, cloud cover, even fog and storms, and finds the painting whose mood matches the moment. A gloomy day surfaces deep blues and purples. A bright afternoon glows in yellows and reds. "Weather is data," Virtanen says, "but it's also a shared experience — and those two things rarely look alike." Behind every temperature anomaly, every forecast probability, every reanalysis dataset, there is a lived human experience: the feel of a heatwave, the relief of rain after drought, the particular grey of a winter that won't lift. World Environment Day is, at its heart, about that relationship between us and the natural world we are part of. The science tells us what is happening to our planet with extraordinary precision. But the reason any of it matters is human, emotional, felt. A small, beautiful reminder on World Environment Day that weather — and the planet — is something we feel, not just something we forecast. For those of us who spend our days with forecasts, anomalies and datasets, that's a gentle and important reminder. The numbers describe the environment. But the environment is something we feel — the air, the light, the sky we all share. World Environment Day is about protecting exactly that. Explore the Current Rothko here 👇 https://rothko.joonas.wtf/