If you enjoy looking at time lapse images of clouds, you are sure to love this new video of time lapse photography taken from wildfire remote cameras across California. It’s about 5 minutes long and shows cloud imagery at a bunch of different remote camera sites.
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It’s the time of year when frost starts to affect large parts of the Southeast. One of the interesting phenomena that can occur in these chilly conditions are something called “frost flowers”. Basically, they are formed by thin ribbons of moisture freezing in the soil and being extruded upward into…
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Do you love to look at amazing photos of weather events? I do! Here is an article from Science Focus that discusses a new book published by the Royal Meteorological Society that includes photos from the last five years of their weather photo contest. The twelve photos here are a…
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If you like to watch exciting time lapse video of clouds, you can never go wrong with Mike Olbinski’s fantastic cloud videos. This week he released a new one, Vorticity 4, that highlights spinning clouds, plus a few tornadoes, cloudbursts, and lightning. You can view it at https://youtu.be/YJgDBr_pH4U. Be sure…
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From time to time I post links to spectacular storm videos. Many of those are taken by veteran storm chaser and photographer Mike Olbinski. I learned today in an article in Atlas Obscura that he is also a wedding photographer. Who knew? You might enjoy reading more about Mike and…
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Because of Tropical Storm Elsa, currently moving north from Florida into Georgia, the wind pattern in the Southeast is particularly interesting today (and tomorrow, too). If you like to look at wind maps, here are a few sites you might enjoy. US wind map (black and white): http://hint.fm/wind/ Earth wind…
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If you like to watch the clouds but don’t know what they are, you might enjoy this 9-minute video from the Cloud Appreciation Society’s founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney. He starts with the lowest cloud types and moves up to the highest clouds. If you want to learn more, you can also…
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