Interesting weather images
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Mars’ Curiosity rover has been wandering around the plant taking images and observations of the Martian atmosphere. While it is thin, the rover has been able to capture numerous images of clouds. On February 2, Curiosity captured a rare sight with a photograph that for the first time captured crepuscular rays on Mars. Crepuscular rays […]
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Here’s a neat data project showing the most common crop by acreage for every county in the United States. The overall winner is—hay! Of course, there is a lot of variation, with the Corn Belt having the most acres in corn (big surprise!), South Georgia in cotton, and eastern North Carolina in sorghum. There are […]
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If you are interested in learning about where lightning occurs most often, you will enjoy reading Vaisala’s annual report of lightning statistics based on their National Lightning Detection Network. You can access it at https://www.xweather.com/annual-lightning-report. It shows the areas with highest lightning density by state and how it compares to previous years. They also provide […]
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Have you ever seen the Northern Lights? If you have lived in the Southeast all your life, most likely not. But when I lived in Wisconsin, I was blessed to see them once, on a cold winter night over a lake near my apartment. The red color was so intense our local meteorologist told us […]
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As we get closer to the cold and snow that is expected in the next few days, you may be interested in viewing where the biggest impacts are occurring, especially if you are going to be traveling. NOAA has a good map depiction of where winter storm impacts are expected to occur over the next […]
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Here is an interesting map display from NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center that shows the daily distribution of lightning stokes across the United States. It is very interesting to see how the area of most lightning strikes moves around over the course of the year. You can view it at https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/dataviewer/?mode=climo&category=ltg&product=ltgday.
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If you love to look at pictures of clouds or want to know what kind of cloud or optical phenomenon you are seeing in the sky, this new cloud library is for you! The Cloud Appreciation Society has launched a new cloud library at https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-library/ that shows amazing pictures of different cloud types as well […]
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