Interesting weather images
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In a previous post I discussed the “wedge,” a weather phenomenon that brings cool air down the east side of the Appalachian Mountains into the Southeast. Officially, it is called a cold air damming event, since the mountains prevent the movement of cool dense air into the mountains but direct it along the eastern slopes. …
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As a meteorologist I am always fascinated by time-lapse videos of clouds moving. They really show that the atmosphere is a fluid not much different than water. This week I ran across two beautiful examples that really capture this. The first one is a video of a sky covered by a cloud type called Undulatus…
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