Interesting weather images
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If you like satellite images of Earth, you might enjoy this video which captures some historic views of the Earth from various vantage points in space. It’s put together by NASA and is about four minutes long. You can view it at https://earthsky.org/space/earth-from-space-photos-video.
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Atlas Obscura has a fascinating look at an unusual weather phenomenon–holes in the fog cover that occur over cities in India. A recent study was originally done to see how pollution in those cities affected the formation of fog. But what scientists noticed was that holes in the fog banks occurred in winter as viewed…
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Atlas Obscura provided a link today to a website devoted to photographic images of the world’s oldest trees, taken by Beth Moon from San Francisco. If you love trees and the natural world, you will be amazed at these amazing trees. You can read about it and see the photos at https://themindcircle.com/ancient-trees/.
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The Atlantic posted a series of photos taken this week in Puerto Rico, where 450,000 homes out of 1.5 million are still without power months after Hurricane Marie. Imagine trying to live in conditions like this. Restoration of power and clean-up of all the debris will take years, and that assumes they don’t get hit…
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If you love to look at maps, you will be interested in this new GIS-based map of forest cover in the US. This is the latest in a string of GIS-based maps of river basins for various continents, and the author Robert Szucs has been featured for these on this blog and other places in the…
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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 is absorbed by the ground…
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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.