Here’s a cool video on YouTube from NASA.gov which shows the progression of rainfall along the path of Hurricane Matthew. This animation shows the amount of rainfall dropped by Hurricane Matthew over the life and track of the storm/ IMERG real time data covering the period from Sept. 28 through Oct….
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Here are a selection of the amazing images I’ve seen today from Matthew. This doesn’t even count all of the videos of water surging through Daytona and Jacksonville and the spectacular data from Matthew passing over ocean weather buoys. Birds in the eye of Matthew. Click here for the animated…
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Red sprites are a high-altitude extremely rapid lightning discharge that happens over thunderstorms. According to a recent National Geographic post, “sometimes called “upward lightning” and “cloud-to-stratospheric lightning,” sprites are momentary bursts of electricity that can literally reach the edge of space, about 50 miles above the ground. They’re rarely documented…
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Hurricanes sometimes go through a cycle where their eye wall disappears as a new eye wall forms farther out from the center and tightens up. This is called an eye wall replacement cycle. You can see one in Hurricane Matthew today at http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tc/2016_14L/webManager/displayGifsBy12hr_06.html. Very cool!
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Check out this fantastic shot of the aurora borealis from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership. It was taken by the Day/Night Band on the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrumentover Canada in the early hours on September 29, 2016. Image Credit: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the…
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The Western Regional Climate Center provided a map this morning of the maximum temperature (at least so far) for 2016 across the US. Since we’re past the date of most areas’ maximum temperature for the year, this is likely to be close to the map for the entire year. This…
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MSN published a slideshow of their picks for top photos of rare weather events this week. You can see the slides here. I see a lot of weather photos on my Facebook feed as well as in other places, and these are definitely some good ones. Enjoy!
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