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Command center · Florida Gulf Coast
Scallop Season 2026
FWC opens 5 Gulf zones on a staggered calendar, Jun 15 – Sep 24 — Steinhatchee first, St. Joe Bay last. Zone-by-zone countdowns, per-vessel bag limits, RV basecamps and the boats to get out on the flats.
Open the zone boardDecade tracker · USNO moon math
Meteor Nights 2026–2035
8 major showers × 10 years of moon illumination on one grid — the emerald cells are the moonless peaks worth driving for. Flagship cell: Perseids Aug 12–13, 2026, a 0% moon.
Forecast desk · NOAA SWPC
Aurora Basecamp
NOAA's live desk deep-linked at three horizons — right now, next 3 days, this month — plus seven agency-cited northern-tier basecamps, Denali to the Boundary Waters. Probability, never promise.
Census tracker · Crane Trust + Indiana DNR
The Crane Clock
Two national crane clocks on one board — the Platte in March (record 736,000) and Jasper-Pulaski in November (record 32,938), each count method-stamped and source-linked. No fake real-time census.
Roll-call tracker · Save the Manatee Club
Manatee Roll Call
The daily Blue Spring manatee count, dated and linked, plus a Cold-Snap Outlook off the NWS forecast — when Florida drops below 68F the springs fill. We never estimate a manatee number ourselves.
The seasonal library
Cited field guides, live today. The Atlas grows only when a tracker earns its data — what you see here is everything.
Every date has a source
Zone dates, peak windows and limits render next to the agency page they come from — FWC, NOAA, NPS, state foresters.
Status computes on your device
Countdowns are date math on the official calendar, run in your browser. Nothing here pretends to be a feed it isn't.
Wild stays wild
Animals and auroras get probability language, never sighting promises — and dormant seasons say dormant, plainly.