Interesting weather images
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As we approach the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene crossing parts of the Southeast, NOAA has produced a new GIS storymap which describes the history of the storm and its impacts on Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Many of the NOAA employees at the National Centers for Environmental Information, located in Asheville NC, were personally…
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ProPublica published a series of maps describing how the climate of the US is likely to change by mid-century back in 2020. It popped up in my social media feeds this week so I thought it might be good to highlight it again. You can see the article at https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/. One of the most striking…
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Have you ever seen a green sky? I can recall a few. Most often they are seen during severe weather, especially when hail is present. Here is an interesting story and explanation for where green skies come from: The Colorful Mystery of Green Thunderstorms – The Front Page, published by the American Meteorological Society blog…
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If you are fascinated by images of the earth as taken from the International Space Station and various satellites, you may enjoy watching the live feed from the ISS. It is now available online as described by Space magazine at https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/live-4k-video-from-space-see-earth-from-the-iss-with-sharp-eyed-sen-cameras. Keep in mind that since over 70% of the earth’s surface is water you…
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I noticed when I was looking at the hourly weather forecast for Athens that the next two nights will both have freezes here in Athens, but the types of freezes will be quite different. You can see it quite well using the hourly graphical temperature forecast, so I thought I would discuss them using the…
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Some of you are still digging out from the snowstorm that fell across a large swath of the South from Louisiana and Texas all the way to eastern North Carolina and Virginia. Here in Athens we were on the northern edge of the storm with just 1/2 inch, but many people in southern GA and…
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Radar is one of the most-used tools in meteorological analysis of real-time weather events. Radar shows where precipitation is occurring and how it is moving over time. The newer versions of doppler radar also wind speed and direction, which allows operators to identify areas that might contain a tornado or other strong wind event. If…