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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Here’s a very cool video that shows how the shape of falling raindrops is not the teardrop shape that we drew as kids. Instead, it is closer to the shape of a hamburger bun. This video also shows how the size distribution of raindrops in a storm was originally measured…
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This is the time of year that abnormally dry conditions can really start to affect agricultural production. This is true for both planting (seeds need moisture to germinate) and crop development. The Drought Monitor does not always do a good job of capturing the changing conditions as rapidly as we…
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The Georgia Climate Project premiered a new 5-minute video today. The story is about reclamation of waste water on the Flint River using wetlands to help filter and clean the water. At the same time, it improves resilience to drought in the watershed. You can watch the video at https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=747154299112286¬if_id=1613784651770522¬if_t=watch_follower_video&ref=notif.
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If you like clouds and good stories, you might want to check out this recent podcast from the New York Times which talks about the Cloud Appreciation Society and how they were able crowdsource observations of clouds to get a new type of cloud named. The cloud type is “Asperitas”…
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As someone who grew up in Michigan and Wisconsin, I saw plenty of evidence of Earth’s ice ages written in the terrain all around me. There were plenty of moraines and kettle lakes and outwash plains, and I even got to drive through the Driftless Area of SW Wisconsin on…
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