Interesting weather images
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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…
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Hurricanes and tropical storms can remake coastlines. This is one reason that we evacuate people from vulnerable coastal areas even when storms stay out to sea. Here is a set of before and after images of the North Carolina coast before and after Hurricane Dorian approached the area. In some places the effects are subtle,…
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Do you love to look at amazing photos of the weather? Then you will enjoy visiting the Royal Meteorological Society’s contest page for Weather Photographer of the Year. You can view 24 fantastic weather photos and vote for the one that you like the best. Go to https://www.photocrowd.com/photo-competitions/photography-awards/wpoty-2019/vote/ to cast your vote by September 25.…
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You may have seen the graphic “climate stripes” for the US showing the annual temperature for each year as a colored stripe. They’ve been made into scarves, rugs, ties and other articles and show how recent years are warmer (redder) than previous years. It’s an interesting way to view the changes in climate that we…
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Here is a really neat image and accompanying story on the damage to vegetation in southwest Georgia caused by Hurricane Michael last year. The winds from this storm were so strong that it blew down leaves across a wide swath of land well in advance of when they would usually fall. The impacts were so…