Interesting weather images
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The Washington Post has an interesting infographic on where energy comes from in each of the 50 states. You can find it at https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/power-plants/ with breakdowns by individual sources.
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As expected, the tropical Atlantic Ocean has been quiet this hurricane season so far, due primarily to the influence of wind shear associated with the El Nino that is present in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. On the other hand, the warm ocean water in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is contributing to an active season there.…
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For the end of Lightning Awareness Week, I want to list a couple of articles that contain very useful information on where and when lightning strikes and the most likely ways that you can be affected. Did you know that 15 percent of all lightning deaths are work-related? And of those, 34 percent are to…
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NASA has a great web site for viewing pictures of changes that have occurred over time around the globe, both from natural causes like landslides and manmade causes like increases in agriculture. You may enjoy paging through these to see how the earth’s surface has varied on a variety of time scales. The photos below,…
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A friend of mine pointed out this interesting new web site from ESRI called Hydro Hierarchy. The web site allows you to look at the relationship between rivers and their drainage patterns across the US. A bar plot on the lower left shows the 2014 streamflow values. The radial graph on the top left shows…
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NOAA has announced their weather photography contest winners for this year. You can view them at https://www.weather.gov/photocontest/.
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The Weather Channel has an interesting series of photos which show some of the strange things that have shown up on NWS radar since the Doppler radar went live in the mid-1990s. You can see them by clicking here. When I lived in Wisconsin, the NWS folk at NWS Sullivan told me they could see…
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