Interesting weather images
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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…
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Almost everyone has seen radar images of precipitation on television or online in the past and knows at least a little about how to interpret them. While many television stations have their own low-power radars, the majority of weather radar images come from the National Weather Service. But their radar images come in two ways…
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The NWS Peachtree City posted a video discussion of the severe weather expected during the day on March 31, 2020 across Georgia. If you are in the southern half of Georgia (and even farther north) you might want to watch it in the morning before the action begins. You can see the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-hkTgVXTUk&feature=youtu.be…