Physicists have proposed a new kind of atomic clock based on a revived superradiant laser concept that could produce an extraordinarily stable signal with a linewidth around 100 microhertz, potentially the narrowest ever for an optical laser. "The implications of this result could stretch well beyond timekeeping," reports Phys.org. "A laser immune to environmental frequency shifts would be a powerful tool in optical interferometry -- using interference patterns in light to make ultra-precise measurements." From the report: In a conventional laser, a mirrored cavity bounces light back and forth between atoms, building up a bright, coherent beam. A superradiant laser works differently: rather than relying on the cavity to maintain coherence, the atoms themselves act as single coordinated emitters, collectively synchronizing their light emission. Following early theoretical ideas emerged in the 1990s, the concept didn't gain concrete traction until 2008, when researchers at the University of Colorado proposed that superradiant lasers could serve as a new kind of atomic clock.

Atomic clocks work by using laser light to probe a very precise transition in an atom, causing electrons to transition between energy levels at an extraordinarily stable frequency. Because a superradiant laser stores its coherence in the atoms rather than the cavity, its output frequency is far less vulnerable to environmental disturbances like vibrations or temperature fluctuations. Yet although this concept was first demonstrated experimentally in 2012 in a pulsed regime, the influence of heating has so far held superradiant lasers back from their full potential. To keep the laser running continuously as an atomic clock requires, atoms must be constantly replenished with energy. Doing this atom-by-atom delivers random kicks that heat the atomic sample and disrupt the lasing process, confining it to brief pulses rather than a steady beam.

In their study, Reilly's team considered whether a modification to earlier theoretical concepts could make a continuous laser suitable for an atomic clock. In almost all previous studies, atoms were treated as simple two-level systems: an electron sitting in a ground state, occasionally jumping up to an excited state and back again. The team proposed that the heating problem could be solved by adding one extra ground state to the picture. In a two-level system, if both the pumping (re-energizing) and decay processes happen collectively through the cavity, the mathematics constrains the system in a way that prevents stable, continuous lasing. But with three levels available, pumping and decay can operate on entirely separate transitions, breaking that constraint and allowing the collective approach to work. The findings have been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Na een weekje rust komt Feyenoord weer in actie. In de beslissende fase van het seizoen zitten de Rotterdammers nog middenin de bloedstollende strijd om die felbegeerde tweede plek. Feyenoord moet vanmiddag in de thuiswedstrijd tegen FC Groningen de volgende horde nemen. Rijnmond is erbij!

In Alblasserdam heeft zaterdagmiddag brand gewoed in een woning aan de Oost Kinderdijk. Het vuur ontstond even na 13:00 uur in een schuurtje en sloeg daarna over op de woning. De bewoners konden op tijd naar buiten en zijn opgevangen bij de buren.

Medewerkers van de Intratuin in Numansdorp stonden zaterdagochtend raar te kijken. De plek waar vrijdag nog een groot springkussen stond, was leeg.

Op de A15 in de richting van Gorinchem is zaterdagmiddag een auto over de kop geslagen. Dat gebeurde net na de Noordtunnel. Daarom werd de tunnel afgesloten en stond het verkeer aan de andere kant enige tijd vast. Inmiddels is de weg weer vrij.

Terwijl het druk is in de winkel, bestelen een man en een vrouw een juwelier in Rotterdam. Zonder dat iemand het doorheeft nemen ze een bakje met gouden sieraden mee, dat achter de toonbank staat. Ze zijn allebei gefilmd.

​De 90 formaggi-pizza wordt door de Italianen met recht een klassieker genoemd. Met 90 kazen op een krokante bodem is het een uitdaging om te maken, maar wat een smaaksensatie is het in de mond. ‘De 90 kazen smelten in je mond’, zo zeggen Italiaanse nonna’s die erg dik zijn (“I novanta formaggi si sciolgono in bocca”).

Die nonna’s maken het natuurlijk met een mix van onder andere mozzarella, strooikaas, blauwe kaas, roomkaas, geitenkaas, halloumi, rookkaas, goudse kaas, heksenkaas, cheddar, hüttenkäse, camembert, milner, beemster, smeerkaas, Old Amsterdam, graskaas, komijnenkaas, pindakaas, parmezaanse kaas, grana padano, ricotta, mascarpone, feta, burrata, friese kaas, manchego, pecorino, roquefort, gatenkaas, kaasfondue, Cheesetrings, Babybel, La Vache Qui Rit, Danish Chef cheese spread, gorgonzola, paneer, kaassoufflé. Leerdammer, Emmenthaler en brie.

En hoe de Italianen het ook zeggen, wij zeggen gewoon op z’n Hollands: geniet! Durf er lekker van te snoepen!

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De rechtbank oordeelt dat Faber de bed-bad-broodopvang voor zestien ongedocumenteerden in Rotterdam niet had mogen beëindigen. „Je mag mensen niet dakloos maken.”

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Oké de context is helemaal niet leuk want amulettenverkoper Russell Brand wordt onder andere beschuldigd van de nogal heftige verkrachting van een zestienjarige meid (waarmee hij erkent naar bed te zijn geweest toen hij dertig was), in onder meer haar keel. Brand is bovendien kopstuk van een internationale beweging die graag dweept met Jezus Christus, maar zelfs aan het kruis genageld geen enkele Bijbelpassage zou kunnen opdissen. Nee, serieus: de goede man wordt hier door Piers Morgan aan het kruis genageld, en blijkt geen flauw idee te hebben wat er allemaal in dat malle boek staat. Schitterende, veelzeggende tv, die we niemand willen onthouden.

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The focus today centres on a desperate fight for survival. In 18th place and winless since December, Tottenham travel to already-relegated Wolves knowing that anything less than three points would be another disastrous pratfall in the direction of a first relegation since 1977. Just two points above them, West Ham host Everton at the London Stadium in a match that is likely to be every bit as tense. While Nuno’s side are fighting for their lives, Everton still dare to dream of a return to European football.

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A lone surfer admiring the Hazards of Freycinet National Park on the other side of Great Oyster Bay on Tasmania's east coast.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Ondanks verzet in de Tweede Kamer verlengt het kabinet begin volgende maand het contract met Solvinity, het bedrijf dat ervoor zorgt dat DigiD kan draaien. Dat schrijft verantwoordelijk staatssecretaris Eric van der Burg (Binnenlandse Zaken) op vragen van JA21 aan de Kamer.

Plannen van het Amerikaanse bedrijf Kyndryl om Solvinity over te nemen zijn in een vergevorderd stadium. Daar is weerstand tegen in de Kamer. Die vreest dat vertrouwelijke gegevens dan in bepaalde gevallen in handen van de Amerikaanse autoriteiten kunnen vallen.

Volgens Van der Burg moet hij het contract met Solvinity wel verlengen omdat anders "de continuïteit en veiligheid van de dienstverlening van Logius in gevaar komt". Logius is het overheidsbedrijf dat eigenaar is van DigiD.

"Derhalve heb ik op 27 maart 2026 het besluit genomen dat Logius haar contract met Solvinity mag verlengen met twee jaar. De ondertekening van deze verlenging zal begin mei 2026 plaatsvinden", aldus de staatssecretaris.

UTRECHT (ANP) - De politie bereidt zich voor op het verwijderen van de demonstranten en op het opheffen van de blokkade op de A12. Dat meldt de gemeente Utrecht op X. Klimaatdemonstranten van XR zijn bij De Meern de snelweg opgelopen. De politie wist ze niet tegen te houden.

Rijkswaterstaat heeft de weg daar in beide richtingen afgesloten. Eén rijstrook is open maar daar staat het verkeer al muurvast. Verkeer wordt voorlopig omgeleid via de A4, A9 en de A2. "Vanwege de hinder adviseren we weggebruikers om de wegen rond Utrecht te mijden."

Een aantal weggebruikers die stilstonden, stapten uit om naar de blokkade te kijken. Een paar boze automobilisten probeerden activisten fysiek weg te trekken, zag een ANP-fotograaf.

De activisten rolden over een viaduct een groot spandoek uit met de tekst: Stop fossiele subsidies: jij betaalt voor oorlog, honger en onrecht.

LUIK (ANP/BELGA) - Julian Alaphilippe staat zondag niet aan de start van de 112e editie van Luik-Bastenaken-Luik. De 33-jarige Fransman mist de Ardennenklassieker om "medische redenen", meldt zijn ploeg Tudor Pro Cycling Team via sociale media. De tweevoudig wereldkampioen laat om die reden volgende week vrijdag ook Eschborn-Frankfurt aan zich voorbijgaan.

"Hij zal niet deelnemen aan de komende wedstrijden om prioriteit te geven aan zijn gezondheid", zo meldt de ploeg.

Alaphilippe ging negen keer van start in de Ardennenkoers. Zijn beste klassering reed hij in 2015 en 2021, toen hij een tweede plek veroverde. In 2020 leek de Fransman de zege te pakken, maar juichte te vroeg, waardoor de Sloveen Primoz Roglic er met de winst vandoor ging. Alaphilippe werd vijfde.

De Zwitserse ploeg verschijnt zondag ook zonder Marc Hirschi aan de start. De Zwitser brak woensdag zijn sleutelbeen bij een val in de Waalse Pijl.

BAKOE (ANP/RTR) - Oekraïne is klaar voor vredesbesprekingen met Rusland in Azerbeidzjan "als Moskou er ook klaar voor is". Dat heeft de Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky gezegd in Azerbeidzjan, waar hij op bezoek is en onder meer een ontmoeting heeft met de president daar, Ilham Aliyev.

Zelensky en een Oekraïense delegatie bezoeken Azerbeidzjan, een bondgenoot in de regio, om de diplomatieke en handelsbetrekkingen te versterken. Ook zijn er gesprekken over verdere economische samenwerking en energieleveringen. Azerbeidzjan importeert bijvoorbeeld gas uit Oekraïne. Bovendien komen militaire zaken aan de orde en deelt Oekraïne zijn expertise op het terrein van luchtverdediging, aldus Zelensky.

De Oekraïense president sprak op X over "belangrijke onderhandelingen". Daarnaast benoemde hij het "wederzijds respect en samenwerking, die beide onze volkeren versterken".

Today's links

• Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance": A tour-de-force, a magnum opus, a work of utter brilliance.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: Gloating about the dot-bomb; RIAA sues PC-less family; John Deere v infosec; Foxconn v Wisconsin; Copyfraud x torturers' reputations; "Careless People."
• Upcoming appearances: London, Berlin, NYC, Barcelona, Hay-on-Wye, London, NYC.
• Recent appearances: Where I've been.
• Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Colophon: All the rest.

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Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" (permalink)

Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, and a leading historian of the Renaissance, and last year, she published her magnum opus, Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning book about so much more than history:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo246135916.html

All of my friends seem to be writing their magnum opuses these days! When (modern) historian Rick Perlstein and I did an event last year for my Enshittification tour, he told me he'd just finished his 1,000 page (ish? I may be misremembering slightly) history of the American conservative movement. And I recently had dinner with China Mieville, who told me he'd just turned in the manuscript for a novel he'd been trying to figure out how to write all his life.

I can't wait to read these books! And I couldn't wait to read Inventing the Renaissance, and I would have been much quicker off the mark but for the exigencies of book tours and books due and so on – but I've been reading it for the past two months or so, and I think I've pitched it about a hundred times to strangers and friends as I savored it, because it's just that good.

Inventing the Renaissance isn't a work of history, it's a work of "historiography" – the study of how histories get written and rewritten. Palmer's point here isn't to make us merely understand the Renaissance – she wants us to understand how the idea of a Renaissance, a rebirth out of a "dark age" into a "golden age" – has been used, abused, created and demolished, for centuries and centuries, including during the centuries when the Renaissance was actually underway.

Palmer teaches Renaissance history at the University of Chicago, where she is legendary for a unique annual pedagogical exercise in which she leads her students through a weeks-long live-action role-playing game that re-enacts the election of the Medicis' Pope. Every student is given a detailed biography of their character's position, goals, proclivities and history, and for weeks, the students scheme, ally, betray and assassinate each other. At the climax, the students take over the university's faux-Gothic cathedral, dressed in Renaissance drag (Palmer has a Google alert for theater companies that are selling off their costumes, and her tiny office at the university overflows with racks of cardinals' robes and other period garb), and they invest a Pope:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/17/against-the-great-forces-of-history/

This exercise is nothing short of genius, and the students who experience it often report that it is life-changing. That's because the final candidates are never quite the same, nor are the cardinals who cast votes for the winner. And yet, there are certain bedrocks that never shift, including the fact that Italy is always invaded by some of the factions involved in the election, though which cities burn also changes.

The point of this exercise is to expose the students to the power and limits of both "great historical forces" and the human agency that every one of us has within the envelope defined by those forces. Palmer wants her students to get a bone-deep understanding that while every moment has great forces bearing down on it, that the people of each moment have an enormous amount of leeway to channel the floodwaters that history will unleash. From the servant who bears a message from one great power to another, up to those great powers themselves, each person guides the course of history, even if they can't halt some of its outcomes.

Though Palmer unpacks this exercise and its meaning and results in the final part of her magnum opus, this message about forces and people is really the key to her historiography. She develops these themes in the most charming, accessible manner imaginable, weaving her own journey into history with her accounts of how different eras consciously created and deployed the idea of "the Renaissance" and how these ideas were bolstered, undermined, or ultimately demolished by new evidence. You could not ask for a better account of why there is not, and can never be, a single, canonical "history" of an era or a moment. There will always be multiple histories, overlapping each other, warring with one another, supplanting each other, or being revived as "lost" histories that reveal a truth that "they" have buried.

This is such an ambitious book, and the ambition pays off in so many ways. Take the book's structure: there's a long middle section in which Palmer describes how more than a dozen figures from the Renaissance experienced their era, with many overlapping events and timelines. Palmer's sensitive, beautifully researched and written accounts of the lives of these figures – highborn and lowly, sinister and virtuous – highlights the contradictions of this centuries-long "moment" we call "the Renaissance" and shows us how those contradictions can't ever be resolved, only acknowledged and understood.

This is Palmer the novelist, blending seamlessly with Palmer the historian. Palmer is a close literary – and personal – ally of the equally brilliant sf/fantasy writer Jo Walton, whose work has mined classical and Renaissance history to great effect since she and Palmer struck up their friendship. First, there were Walton's "Philosopher Kings" books, a three-book long thought experiment in which every person of every era who ever dreamed of living in Plato's Republic is brought through time and space to the doomed volcanic island that will someday give rise to the story of Atlantis, to try out Plato's ideal society for real:

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/13/jo-waltons-the-just-city/

Then there was Lent, Walton's story of the fanatical reformer Savonarola, who is forced to re-live his life over and over, with breaks in hell where he is tormented by his failure:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190516170659/https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-jo-walton-lent-20190516-story.html

And this June, she'll bring out Everybody's Perfect, a novel that uses Palmer's trick of telling a story from many viewpoint characters, each of whom perceives the events so differently that their versions can't really be reconciled, except by understanding that there is no one history and there cannot be one history. There are only the histories, ever changing. The omnipotent third person narrator is a lie. I don't know if Palmer got this idea from Walton, or if Walton was inspired by Palmer, but it is a wonderful living example of how intellectual and creative movements (like those that are attributed to the Renaissance) feed one another.

One of Palmer's areas of specialty is free speech and censorship. Along with Adrian Johns, we co-taught a grad seminar called "Censorship, Information Control, and Information Revolutions from Printing Press to Internet" that connected Ada's work to the current battles over online speech:

https://neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/research/censorship-information-control-and-information-revolutions-from-printing-press-to-internet

Palmer wants us to understand that the majority of censorship is self-censorship – that the Inquisition could only intervene in a tiny minority of cases of prohibited thought and word, and they had to rely on key people – printers, for example – anticipating the Inquisitors' tastes and limiting their speech without an Inquisitorial edict (if this seems relevant to the Trump administration's "war on woke," then you're clearly paying attention):

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/22/self-censorship/#hugos

Those correspondences between the deep historical record and our current moment make Inventing the Renaissance extremely important and timely – a book hundreds of years in the making, and bang up to date.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43VeYGiPM

• From the Jew Bill to the Mamdani Act https://coreyrobin.com/2026/04/22/from-the-jew-bill-to-the-mamdani-act/

• This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/

• Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing https://theconversation.com/half-of-ai-health-answers-are-wrong-even-though-they-sound-convincing-new-study-280512

• Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/20/amazon-sellers-price-raises-california

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Object permanence (permalink)

#25yrsago Gloating NYT editorial about the dotcom crash https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/23/opinion/editorial-observer-after-the-fall-the-new-economy-goes-retro.html

#20yrsago RIAA sues family that doesn’t own a PC https://www.techshout.com/riaa-sues-local-family-without-computer-for-illegal-music-file-sharing/

#15yrsago Righthaven copyright troll loses domain https://web.archive.org/web/20110425035158/http://www.domainnamenews.com/legal-issues/righthavencom-invalid-whois/9232

#15yrsago Steampunk Venetian mask https://bob-basset.livejournal.com/160226.html

#5yrsago John Deere's dismal infosec https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#deere-john

#5yrsago Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#monorail

#5yrsago Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#dark-ops

#1yrago Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• London: Resisting Big Tech Empires (LSBU), Apr 25
  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/globaljusticenow/2042691

• NYC: Enshittification at Commonweal Ventures, Apr 29
  https://luma.com/ssgfvqz8

• NYC: Techidemic with Sarah Jeong, Tochi Onyebuchi and Alia Dastagir (PEN World Voices), Apr 30
  https://worldvoices.pen.org/event/techidemic/

• Barcelona: Internet no tiene que ser un vertedero (Global Digital Rights Forum), May 13
  https://encuentroderechosdigitales.com/en/

• Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
  https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow

• Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
  https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow.html

• Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
  https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2

• SXSW London, Jun 2
  https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/how-big-tech-broke-the-internet-b3c4a901

• NYC: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Jonathan Coulton
  (The Strand), Jun 24
  https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Disruptor, with Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio (CBC Ideas)
  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16210039-artificial-intelligence-the-ultimate-disruptor

• When Do Platforms Stop Innovating and Start Extracting? (InnovEU)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccDR0YaMt8

• Pete "Mayor" Buttigieg (No Gods No Mayors)
  https://www.patreon.com/posts/pete-mayor-with-155614612

• The internet is getting worse (CBC The National)
  https://youtu.be/dCVUCdg3Uqc?si=FMcA0EI_Mi13Lw-P

• Do you feel screwed over by big tech? (Ontario Today)
  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-ontario-today/clip/16203024-do-feel-screwed-big-tech

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Latest books (permalink)

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/)

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026

• "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2027

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

Currently writing: "The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America. Third draft completed. Submitted to editor.

• "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. LEGAL REVIEW AND COPYEDIT COMPLETE.

• "The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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• 14:00: 16.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1020.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 316°
• 15:00: 16.6°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1020.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 324°
• 16:00: 16.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°
• 17:00: 16.1°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1020.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 314°
• 18:00: 15.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 316°
• 19:00: 14.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°
• 20:00: 13.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 316°
• 21:00: 12.5°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1021.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↓ 342°
• 22:00: 11.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.8 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↓ 348°
• 23:00: 10.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.3 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↓ 8°
• 00:00: 10.4°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.8 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↓ 6°
• 01:00: 9.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1023.5 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 33°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zondag 26 april: Min 8.6°C, Max 17.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.2 hPa ↗️ +4.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 65°
• maandag 27 april: Min 9.4°C, Max 17.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1023.9 hPa ↘️ -1.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 55°
• dinsdag 28 april: Min 6.9°C, Max 16.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1024.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.4 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 49°
• woensdag 29 april: Min 7.9°C, Max 18.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.2 hPa ↗️ +3.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.2 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 65°
• donderdag 30 april: Min 9.6°C, Max 20.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1026.7 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.6 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ← 100°
• vrijdag 01 mei: Min 11.4°C, Max 22.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1020.7 hPa ↘️ -6.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.2 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↑ 177°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 15.9°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 14.1°C (-1.8°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 310°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 25.2 km/h (7.0 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 32%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1020.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 5.8
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:24 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:56

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 38 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 7.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 9.4 μg/m³

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