The recent post in the Wikipedia community about the Trojan Room coffee pot got me thinking: are there any interesting webcams still running on the web? If so, do you have any favorites?
Aside from my local ski area I didn’t think I could name a single webcam still running.
There are many, especially on weather stations and some City outlooks. There are also some on mountains.
Oh and the one from NASA that steams to YouTube.
If you’re talking about the ISS earthcam I’m pretty sure that’s been dead for years at this point unless they revived it and I haven’t heard about it
I used to love watching it
USGS maintains some cool ones, and has a youtube page for when something rare happens at Mauna Kea or wherever.
Scripps Institute has a bunch. The underwater camera at their pier in La Jolla, CA, is pretty active.
Oh man, the Scripps cams are making me want a beach vacation. It’s been too long since I’ve been to the ocean.
I follow a couple where I have ties to, like the hawks that nest on top my hometown government building. But the only one I have no personal ties to yet I still go back to is the Miami Zoo flamingo cam.
https://www.earthcam.com/usa/florida/miami/flamingo/?cam=flamingo
Something about flamingoes just makes my day a fraction of a percent better.
Cities usually have a few on touristic monuments
This is a slick 3D map of Tokyo weather and trains where you can view a variety of webcams. https://minitokyo3d.com/
Tehachapi Loop is another cool train cam with a train ascending in a loop to gain elevation in a short distance. https://www.youtube.com/live/OqCFMmob8Q8
