15 December 2014

Cool Science Pics

Posted by Dan Satterfield

Thought I’d share some cool pics taken from Space today. The first one below is from the past week, and is a great view from the ISS courtesy of Astronaut Barry Wilmore. Notice the city lights shining through the clouds.

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Click for a version large enough for a good size print.

I forecasted a sunny Sunday in Maryland and Delaware today. Missed it by THAT much!

Clear all day in Richmond and Norfolk but gray and wintery in DC, Baltimore and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Clear all day in Richmond and Norfolk, but gray and wintery in DC, Baltimore, and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Severe storms hit Oklahoma Sunday evening ahead of a powerful tropospheric low pressure system. The low shows up very well in the GOES Water Vapor imagery.

Ctsy. U. Wisc.

Ctsy. U. Wisc.

This is what it looked like on the ground in Oklahoma City, courtesy of a friend there:

Jennifer Vincent

From Jennifer Vincent

Can you spot the contrails over Arizona and Southern California in this image from the Aqua satellite Sunday afternoon? This is true colour.

Aqua Satellite

Aqua Satellite

I’ll be attending the biggest Earth Science conference in the World Wednesday and Thursday and will have some posts about what I see and hear there. A lot of it will be streamed online live and on-demand. More here.