Interesting weather images
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If you love landscape images, you will enjoy these photo winners from the BBC showing a variety of unbelievable landscapes from around the world. Time for a road trip? The photo I am using for this blog post is not one of the winners, so be sure to check out the BBC page here to…
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Yahoo News provided a fascinating look at the ocean floor in an animation that shows the ocean slowly draining. As the water levels get lower, you can see the land bridges that allowed animals and people to move between continents. As it gets lower, you can see the mid-ocean ridges and other high and low…
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If you love looking at images of weather from space, you will enjoy looking at this collection of fascinating images from Stu Ostro at The Weather Channel. He has captured many images of hurricanes, lightning, clouds, and fires in his yearly summary. Note that these are mostly satellite images, not surface images of clouds. You…
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I love to look at satellite pictures as well as astronomy images and other imagery from NASA. Today they announced that they are making their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free, which will allow all of us to enjoy their striking photos and videos of stars, auroras, hurricanes, and other natural phenomena. You…
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A friend passed along this story about a beautiful covering of rime ice along Skyline Drive west of Washington DC. Rime ice is formed when the air is cool and moist and when the temperature drops to below freezing super-cooled water droplets condense right on contact with the cold trees. The rime ice may not…
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Here is the latest selection of spectacular imagery of weather, this one the top photos from The Guardian‘s 2019 contest. You can view all the finalists here. Note that the photo that is accompanying this blog post is not one of this year’s finalists so I won’t spoil the surprise.
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I’ve written about the Cloud Appreciation Society in this blog before, but here’s a new story about this dedicated group of sky watchers from WBUR‘s “Here and Now” which you might find interesting. You can read it and see lots of spectacular cloud images at https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/10/11/cloud-appreciation-society. I am even more excited because the founder of…