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12 March 2013
Vote For NASA’s Most Amazing Pic
Over at the NASA Earth Observatory, they are having a contest to pick NASA’s most amazing space image. I can tell right now what my favourite is. The image below from the MODIS sensor on the Aqua Satellite. NASA’s mission is to explore and learn, but perhaps its greatest gift to the people of the Earth is (and has always been) inspiration. Go take a look and vote!
When The Waves Turn The Minutes To Hours
Last weeks big Nor’easter dumped very heavy snow in New England and it brought unusually high winds to the East Coast. From Norfolk to Boston. One of the NOAA buoys located 26 miles SE of Cape May New Jersey, or about 20 nautical miles off of Fenwick Island in Delaware, recorded the second highest waves on it’s record. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 510 PM EST SAT MAR 09 2013 …DELAWARE BAY BUOY …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.