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28 May 2005
That’s Zulu not Sulu! (but live long and prosper anyhow)
My wife always laughs when someone asks me the time because I will tend to give the unsuspecting questioner the response…WHERE? Time depends on where you are. (It also depends on how fast you are moving but let’s leave the relativity stuff for another blog) I’m also asked what the “Z” means on radar images and satellite images we show. The answer is GMT. Z stands for Greenwich Mean Time. …
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.