Interesting weather images
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Lots of great images today from the eclipse! I was at 99.1% totality at Sanford Stadium in Athens GA with about 30,000 other people watching the darkness descend. Here’s a great shot from the VIIRS satellite radiometer showing the shadow over the Southeast. The text explanation is below. You can also watch video of the…
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If you want to see a view of the eclipse shadow from space on Monday, there are a number of web sites which provide a great view. One was put together by Brian McNoldy at the University of Miami at https://andrew.rsmas.miami.edu/bmcnoldy/conus/. There will also be some great satellite loops from the University of Wisconsin Space…
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I love time lapse photos, and this new one showing a year in the life of a forest is a beautiful addition to the genre. Enjoy it!
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If you’ve ever wondered how the Drought Monitor comes up with the drought designations it does, you might be interested in this four-minute video showing the process. A lot of input is gathered before the final map is drawn. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo1Jyzba7rA.
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I love to look at pictures of nature, with or without clouds, and these photos of abstract desert landscapes by Luca Tombolini are spectacular! You can view several of them at Atlas Obscura at the link here.
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NASA’s Earth Observatory blog has a really interesting picture of hail damage from satellites today from a storm that hit in South Dakota. I think you will be amazed at the damage that is visible even from far above the ground. You can read about it and see images at https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=90592.
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Those of you who like weather pictures and knowing about unusual weather phenomena probably already know what a “green flash” is, but for those who don’t, a green flash is an optical phenomenon that occurs at sunset when the setting sun may momentarily look green due to the refraction of the sun’s disk by the…