Interesting weather images
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Do you love to look at amazing photos of weather events? I do! Here is an article from Science Focus that discusses a new book published by the Royal Meteorological Society that includes photos from the last five years of their weather photo contest. The twelve photos here are a fantastic compilation of just a…
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If you like to watch exciting time lapse video of clouds, you can never go wrong with Mike Olbinski’s fantastic cloud videos. This week he released a new one, Vorticity 4, that highlights spinning clouds, plus a few tornadoes, cloudbursts, and lightning. You can view it at https://youtu.be/YJgDBr_pH4U. Be sure to check out some of…
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From time to time I post links to spectacular storm videos. Many of those are taken by veteran storm chaser and photographer Mike Olbinski. I learned today in an article in Atlas Obscura that he is also a wedding photographer. Who knew? You might enjoy reading more about Mike and seeing some of his photos…
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Because of Tropical Storm Elsa, currently moving north from Florida into Georgia, the wind pattern in the Southeast is particularly interesting today (and tomorrow, too). If you like to look at wind maps, here are a few sites you might enjoy. US wind map (black and white): https://hint.fm/wind/ Earth wind map: https://earth.nullschool.net/ (you can drag…
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If you like to watch the clouds but don’t know what they are, you might enjoy this 9-minute video from the Cloud Appreciation Society’s founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney. He starts with the lowest cloud types and moves up to the highest clouds. If you want to learn more, you can also visit the Cloud Appreciation Society…
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Here’s a very cool video that shows how the shape of falling raindrops is not the teardrop shape that we drew as kids. Instead, it is closer to the shape of a hamburger bun. This video also shows how the size distribution of raindrops in a storm was originally measured using a pan of flour…
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This is the time of year that abnormally dry conditions can really start to affect agricultural production. This is true for both planting (seeds need moisture to germinate) and crop development. The Drought Monitor does not always do a good job of capturing the changing conditions as rapidly as we might like. In the past…