Interesting weather images
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If you like time lapse videos of clouds as much as I do, you will be thrilled to watch this latest short video by Mike Olbinski of the Arizona monsoon of 2018. It includes scenes of cloudbursts, lightning, and amazing dust storms set against fantastic desert scenery. Make sure you watch it full screen with…
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If you like aerial photography, you will be sure to like this photo feature from The Atlantic magazine showing a series of images, all at the same scale, showing patches of the earth that are seven square miles big each. The array of different topographies is amazing! You can see the images here. Be sure…
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If you like beautiful weather images (and I know you do), you will enjoy these two shortlists of weather photographs selected from over 4,000 entries to the Royal Meteorological Society’s annual photo contest and from the Weather Channel’s competition. Visit https://www.weather-photo.org/events/weather-photographer-year/2018-weather-photographer-year/finalists/ to vote for your favorite from RMetSoc and see the top fan favorites at TWC…
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Thirteen years ago today, Hurricane Katrina came onshore in eastern Louisiana. While the winds were down to 75-80 mph, the storm surge was massive, in some places higher than 28 feet, and wiped out blocks along the coastline stretching from the Florida Panhandle well across most of Louisiana. Two days later, New Orleans started to…
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Did you know that NASA’s satellites can identify surface fires from space? They use the thermal imaging wavelength band to find hotspots that correspond with fires that are either wildfires or are human-set burns in agricultural areas. NASA produces a map which shows these fires across the globe. You can read more about the map…
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Here is an interesting NOAA video which shows the change in carbon dioxide over time on Earth for two spots, Mauna Loa and the South Pole. Then it goes back further in time using data from ice cores all the way back to 800,000 years ago. Be sure to watch all the way to the…
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Have you ever seen a strange cloud in the sky and wondered what it was? Smithsonian.com posted a short but interesting article about a new “weird cloud atlas” that helps people identify some of the stranger clouds in the sky. You can read about it and see a few pictures at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ufo-or-crazy-cloud-weird-cloud-atlas-helps-you-decide-17428407/. Or go to the…