Interesting weather images
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If you like to watch interesting things flying by overhead, you might be interested in looking for the International Space Station. When it’s zooming past your area, it’s usually the third brightest object in the sky. But how do you know when to look? You can sign up for notifications for when the ISS is…
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Jordan McLeod of the Southeast Regional Climate Center put together this nice graphic showing the impact of Atlanta on summer rainfall in North Georgia. Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA provided the commentary and posted it on Facebook.
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While temperatures here in the Southeast have been fairly seasonal recently, Alaska has been baking with temperatures far above normal. NASA released an image showing the variation in temperatures from average for the period May 17-24. It shows the wide band of above normal temperatures in Canada and eastern Alaska stretching all the way up…
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The satellite picture this morning showed the Southeast in all its glory, unmasked by clouds. This image, taken from the GOES-East geostationary satellite, is so crisp that you can see river valleys and even the “fall line” cutting through central Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. The clear conditions are courtesy of high pressure, which…
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On May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens erupted in a cataclysmic event that reshaped parts of the Cascades Mountains to the southwest of Seattle. Since the eruption went mainly sidewise as the north side of the mountain collapsed, the eruption had limited climatological effects globally, although the ash did cause cooling and surface problems in…
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If you are a meteorologist, a bright sunny day with low humidity is dull and boring. Photographers know it’s hard to take good photographs in harsh sunlight, so sunshine is not welcome to them either. Rain, snow, fog and severe weather all bring their own special charms. The Digital Photography School posted an article today…
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One of my Facebook friends posted a link to a really neat web site which provides beautiful graphics for forecasts out to two weeks. While I think the forecast skill for anything beyond about 5 days is not very high, the graphics are still very interesting to look at. You can view wind, temperature, humidity,…