Interesting weather images
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From NASA’s web page: “Since the 1920s, excessive pumping of groundwater in California’s San Joaquin Valley has caused land in sections of the valley to sink by as much as 28 feet (8.5 meters), a problem exacerbated during droughts, when farmers rely heavily on groundwater to sustain one of the most productive agricultural regions in…
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NASA posted a new photo of fires that are burning around the Southeast. Many of these fires are prescribed burns for people clearing land in preparation for field work. Others are wildfires which have grown due to recent dry conditions. You can read about the latest photo and view it at https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/fires-in-southeast-united-states-both-wild-and-prescribed.
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Weather Underground posted a story today describing some of the non-precipitation things that have shown up on National Weather Service radars across the nation. I’ve shared some of them before but you might be interested in seeing the full list. You can see images and access the information at https://www.wunderground.com/news/radar-gaggle-geese-arkansas-iss?__prclt=FNouhSlu.
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Even though it’s been warm here in the Southeast, winter is not yet over. To remind us, NPR has a fascinating video on the growth of snowflakes available as their Valentine’s Day gift to us. It is about two minutes long and features the slow growth of dendrites, which are the typical snowflakes you see…
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On the EarthSky blog today the authors posted a short video of a spacecraft destroying a sundog. You’ve probably seen sundogs or parhelia before–they are optical phenenoma caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals which show up as spots of light to the left or right of the sun, usually near sunrise or sunset.…
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NASA’s Earth Observatory had some interesting pictures this week about localized snow in the Netherlands. They think it was caused by changes in fog over small areas to snow due to the seeding of ice crystals, which changed the liquid fog droplets into ice crystals that consolidated into snowflakes. In the areas affected 1-2 inches…
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If you are longing for a taste of real winter, then you might enjoy this video of blizzard conditions on top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire from WeatherNationTV at https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/blizzard-conditions-whip-mount-washington-observatory/. Meanwhile, some areas in the Southeast got a little taste of snow yesterday with up to a few inches of snow reported at higher elevations in…