Time magazine posted an interesting photo essay recently describing changes in ice taking place around Antarctica. Climatologists know that the high latitudes (both in the Arctic and Antarctic) are the most likely places to see the impacts of changing climate because of the albedo effect, which affects how much sunlight…
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The CoCoRaHS blog posted this interesting video from National Public Radio about the sounds that ice can make in cold weather. You might enjoy watching it. You can find it at https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2018/01/singing-ice.html.
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Lee Shearer of the Athens Banner-Herald has an interesting story about a new island that was created along the Georgia coast by storm surge associated with Hurricane Irma last September. According to the story, the new island formed when the storm shifted the channel of Blackbeard Creek and blew out…
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Even if we don’t see much of the white stuff in most years here in the Southeast (this year excepted), it’s always fun to look at pictures of snowflakes and dream of white yards from inside a warm house. EarthSky has posted some amazing photos of snowflakes from their readers…
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The round of summaries of 2017 has begun, and here is a good slide show of some of the weather and climate events that have shaped 2017 from Bloomberg News: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2017-12-20/a-year-of-climate-change-in-photos. The slides that follow it are also interesting for their aerial views of agriculture and industry.
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Earthsky posted a great new timelapse of clouds today, this time a cloud inversion over the Grand Canyon. You can watch it at http://earthsky.org/earth/grand-canyon-cloud-inversion-timelapse?mc_cid=49991aa01e&mc_eid=b22da16cce.
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I am a sucker for photos of clouds, geography, and space. These 50 photos show the amazing variety of our solar system taken from a number of satellites and spacecraft over time. We have learned so much about weather and geology on other planets by looking at these images! Enjoy…
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