Interesting weather images
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NASA’s Earth Observatory posted a striking pair of pictures recently showing the massive defoliation caused by gypsy moth caterpillars in Rhode Island. It’s amazing to me how much damage the caterpillars were able to do to the tree canopy there in just a month. You can read about it and see the pictures in more…
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Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA published a new column in Forbes.com this week about mammatus clouds, the beautiful and sometimes scary clouds that form on the undersides of severe thunderstorms (and occasionally in other places as well). You can read his blog post here. The Cloud Appreciation Society also has some great pictures of mammatus…
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Rainfall from the soggy tropical storms Bonnie and Colin has caused flooding on fields in some areas of the Southeast. The Southeast Farm Press provided a photo gallery of some of the flooding in eastern NC, taken by Rod Gurganus, North Carolina State University Extension director in Beaufort Count. You can see them all here.
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The Washington Post had a beautiful and haunting photo essay on growing wheat in Colorado earlier this week. The photos are by Elliot Ross and the story is by May-Ying Lam. Enjoy it here.
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If you like rainbows, you are sure to like this beautiful time lapse video of a double rainbow over the Wasatch Mountains in Utah earlier this week. You can view it at the Capital Weather Gang here.
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A friend posted this fantastic video from the Florida Institute of Technology testing out a new super high speed camera on lightning. You can really see the progression of step leaders downward from the cloud before the main lightning stroke surges up from the ground. You can view it at Slate.com at https://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2016/05/lightning_storm_in_super_slow_motion_video_from_florida_researchers.html.
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EarthSky posted a striking image from NASA’s Aqua satellite of a low pressure area traveling across Canada this week which shows smoke from the Alberta wild fires entrained into the clouds. You can read about it here. The CoCoRaHS blog also has some interesting information on the climate conditions which helped set up the conditions…