Interesting weather images
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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 part of a narrow finger…
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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 here. The story also includes…
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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 https://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 them at https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/best-space-photos/.
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Here’s a very interesting video from NASA Goddard on how satellites have changed our views of the earth and some of the things we have learned about our planet from viewing it from space. You can view it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIcJBiynvw&feature=share.
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Here is a very cool video showing the atmospheric loading by dust, smoke, sea salt, and other aerosol tracers over the 2017 hurricane season. It’s amazing to watch the dance of different aerosol types and see the hurricanes develop and move over the Atlantic Ocean as the season progresses. The smoke coming off the western…