Interesting weather images
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Did you know that the National Weather Service is about to update their radar web site? If you use it already, you may have seen notices that the old site is going away because Flash is also going away. Their new improved web site launches this week. You can learn more about the new site…
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I don’t know about you, but watching clouds is one of my favorite things to do. Clouds come in an amazing variety of shapes, and what is even more amazing is that those shapes, and the colors of the clouds, too, are based on physical principles that can tell us something about the weather that…
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If you have ever wondered about whether or not weather shown in the movies is real, you might enjoy this YouTube presentation on weather and the movies. It includes clips from five different movies that have significant weather in them, including “The Wizard of Oz” and “Twister”. The presenter, Ed Szoke, spends the first 9+…
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There are a couple of web sites I like to go to when the wind fields are interesting, and tonight is certainly one of those nights. Here is the streamline map of winds for the US from https://hint.fm/wind/. You can also find a color global map at https://earth.nullschool.net/. I will be watching these in the…
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Have you ever been in a flash flood? Here is a terrifying 12-minute video of four adventurers who were canyoneering in Zion National Park and got caught by a flash flood forming waterfalls over the side of the canyon. They were not watching the radar carefully and they thought they would be safe where they…
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Here is a wonderful site which provides sound clips of forests all over the world. I don’t see any from the Southeast but there are clips from Denali to the Western Sahara to New Zealand that you can sample to hear birds, beavers and bees as well as wind and waterfalls. You can try some…
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Strong winds along the southern coast of Australia can contribute to the development of “reverse waterfalls” where the water actually goes up instead of down because of the power of the air currents. I saw this video from BBC earlier this week and enjoyed the view of the streaming water. You can watch it at…