As the World Series ended last night with the Royals on top, the skies lit up with amateur fireworks across Kansas City. In fact, there was so much smoke and debris they were visible on the NWS radar. You can read about it at Deadspin here. Radar has been known…
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Many of my meteorology friends have posted this fantastic photo of Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Breckenridge CO yesterday. These clouds often form on windy days (faster wind on top of the wave versus the bottom…wind shear), when there’s a difference in densities of the air, for example, during a temperature inversion….
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A rare occurrence of a tropical cyclone (equivalent to a hurricane in the Atlantic) making landfall on the Arabian peninsula is expected to occur this week as Chapala moves west towards Yemen and Oman. Some areas of the desert countries could receive up to 8 years’ worth of rain in…
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The New York Times published some spectacular pictures of the ice melting in Greenland this summer which were taken by a drone. You can see these images at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/insider/a-drones-vantage-point-of-a-melting-greenland.html?_r=0 and read more about how the video was taken at the Huffington Post here. If you are interested in why the melting of…
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Along the East Coast today many roads were underwater from a combination of extremely high tides, onshore flow, remains of the flooding in South Carolina, and rising sea levels. A number of roads were forced to close, including the access to Tybee Island along the Georgia coast near Savannah. This…
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The Atacama Desert in Chile, normally one of the driest places on Earth, was recently photographed covered by millions of pink mallows. Heavy rains in March provided some areas with up to seven years’ worth of rain in 12 hours. You can see pictures and read a description here. While…
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The satellite and streamline maps today show a newly developed coastal low pressure center (which spun up from the remnant circulation of former Major Hurricane Patricia) as it moves east across the Southeast today. You can see the dynamic version of the streamflow analysis at http://earth.nullschool.net/. The swirl of winds…
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