Interesting weather images
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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 Ray Collins and animated by…
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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 post at Forbes.com here.
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The University of Wisconsin Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences just posted their latest photo contest results at https://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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One of the earliest tornado videos on record was this short video clip from the deadly Warner Robins GA storm on April 30, 1953. According to This Date in Weather History on Facebook, “An F4 tornado with winds over 200 mph hit the Warner Robins, Georgia, and portions of Robins Air Force Base, killing 18…
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The bright orange and pink clouds in Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” have long been thought to be a product of a volcanic eruption, most likely the very large eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. Volcanic eruptions shoot sulfuric acid droplets and ash high into the atmosphere, producing spectacular sunsets around the world that have been linked…
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I will close out Earth Day with a final picture of the Earth as viewed through Saturn’s rings. This image was taken by NASA on April 12, 2017; more information can be found at Yahoo Finance here. Everything that happened around the world today, including all the Marches for Science and all of your own…
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Growing Georgia produced an interesting video last month on a pecan producer whose farm was hit by a tornado and the aftermath on his trees and family. What would you do if you lost a good part of your crop in one bad weather event? You can view the video here.