KQED Science had an interesting article this week about how historical paintings from the past can shed light on the amount of pollutants (both natural pollutants like volcanic particulates and human-injected pollutants from industry and transportation) in the atmosphere and how they change the way the sky looks. I’ve talked…
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If you like time lapse cloud pictures like I do, and would like to live vicariously by visiting the Grand Canyon on video (I haven’t been there yet but hope to someday), you will love this 3-minute video of a rare cloud inversion, where clouds fill the bowl of the…
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Just in case you did not know, the World Meteorological Organization has a five-minute video explaining everything that meteorologists do using cute hand drawings. Did you know that the broadcast meteorologists you see on television are actually just a small proportion of all of the meteorologists working for government, private…
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I grew up looking at National Geographic magazine and loved their photography. Here is their latest collection of beautiful landscape pictures. Of course many of them include great weather as well! You can view these 43 pictures here.
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I’ve always loved watching waves, first on Lake Michigan and then on the ocean. The atmosphere is full of waves, too, which are easy to see if you use time-lapse photography. Here is an amazing set of cinemagraphs created from thousands of still pictures of ocean waves by Australian photographer…
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Here’s something you don’t see every day! A cloud layer passing over downtown Chicago was so low that it was affected by the John Hancock building. What’s going on? You can read an explanation of how clouds and surface features interact from Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA in his blog…
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The University of Wisconsin Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences just posted their latest photo contest results at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/news/articles/9998. Take a look at all of the great weather photos from this year’s competition.
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