18 June 2010
New Satellite View of the Oil Slick. HUGE!
Posted by Dan Satterfield
View of the oil slick in the Gulf from NASA's TERRA satellite. 11:40AM CDT (1640GMT). Click image for the high resolution version.
The winds are fairly light in the Gulf and the currents have responded to this as well. This new view of the oil leaves no doubt that the slick is massive and spreading slowly eastward. Not that the folks in NW Florida do not already know it.
Dan
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.