Interesting weather images
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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.
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By all accounts, the recent rains that fell on California after years of drought triggered an explosion of color as plants that have been dormant for years have burst out in a blaze of flowers. You can see some pictures here at EarthSky. But even more amazing is the image I saw today which showed…
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This isn’t really about the weather, but is very cool nonetheless. EarthSky has a fascinating video of flocking starlings moving together in movements of incredible grace that appear hypnotic. The movements are called a “murmuration.” The birds seem to anticipate each others’ movements, leading to waves of movement through the flock. But how do they…
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Following the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, both the Soviets and the United States went into a flurry of satellite building. As part of that race to space, on April 1, 1960, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Television Infra-Red Observation Satellite (TIROS-1), the world’s first successful weather satellite.…
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Our NWS radar has come a long ways from the days of the old black and white radars! Now we have dual-pol doppler radar in multi-color with all kinds of bells and whistles, but this image shows what they had to work with in 1973. The hook echo just to the southwest of the center…
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I am a sucker for time lapse videos of clouds. The World Meteorological Organization has a new one called “Understanding Clouds” with some spectacular footage of clouds. I think the title of the video is a big misleading because the clouds are just shown with dramatic music rather than an explanation of how clouds are…
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