Interesting weather images
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Do you like to watch time lapse photography? Here is a really great resource showing land use changes across the world. Google and Time magazine have teamed up together to show a three-decade time lapse of the entire Earth. You can zoom to areas of interest or check out the editors’ choices of some of…
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Today’s stunning picture is of a snowfall in the Sahara desert in an area that has not seen snow in the last 37 years. While summer temperatures in the Sahara can be stifling, winter can actually be quite chilly, especially in the higher elevation areas near the Atlas Mountains. I love the picture of white…
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The Inertia published a news story this week describing a detailed new video of the oceanic and atmospheric circulation in the Pacific Ocean in El Niño and La Niña conditions. Most of you already know that both El Niño and La Niña affect the climate here in the Southeast, especially in winter. If you have…
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The air temperature map today from the Georgia Weather Network shows the strong gradient in temperature across the state. Strong winds from the southwest ahead of the front are bringing temperatures of low 80s into east-central Georgia right now (probably breaking a few records) but will be replaced in a few hours by much colder…
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This week NASA announced that it has produced a new visualization of how carbon dioxide moves around the globe. It shows how CO2 moves around the earth and between the northern and southern hemispheres. You can really see the difference in the two hemispheres in terms of land area and plant life. You can read…
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NOAA has just released a very nice photo retrospective of the 2016 hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin. The season was considered as “above normal” this year because of the number of storms. Be sure to check it out at https://portal.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=2961a294abf74674a30bd973703c91d3.
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The Global Surface Water Explorer is a new website/app which allows you to look at changes in surface water over time using archived LANDSAT data. Changes include both lakes shrinking as water is diverted to irrigation and water supply and lakes growing as glaciers melt faster than they can gather new snow. You can read…