Interesting weather images
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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 because they are so short…
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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 https://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 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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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 year, a lot of the…
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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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This Day in Weather History‘s Facebook page showed a photo of Tropical Storm Esther on September 20, 1061 as taken from the TIROS satellite. As far as I can tell, this is the first time that a tropical storm was identified first by satellite. Here’s the text accompanying the image: “September 20th, 1961 – On…
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Today is a great day to remind folks in the Southeast about these moving wind maps! You can find the black and white US map at https://hint.fm/wind/ and a nice global coverage map at https://earth.nullschool.net/. The global map also allows you to zoom and to look at different layers, but I can’t get the zoom feature…
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