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4 June 2010
As The Oil Slick Spreads, The Ice Keeps Melting and The Temperature Keeps Rising
Yes, they are most definitely related. I have been very busy reading lately. Books and papers. A presentation on the science underway in Antarctica is half finished, but I keep finding new things I just have to read right away. (I’m presenting at the AMS broadcast conference in Miami in three weeks.) There are some very interesting graphs and images I have stumbled onto and since the desktop folder (thankfully …
3 June 2010
Oil Now in Areas Open To Fishing
There are several ways of seeing the extent of the oil slick on the water in the Gulf of Mexico. Visible light is just one way. A better way may very well be to use Synthetic Aperture Radar and look at the Gulf in high frequency radio light. The SAR image to the right is courtesy of CSTARS and the European Space Agency. It shows the oil well. It also …
Where The Oil Will Go- Courtesy NCAR
Some ominous modeling data from the folks at the National Centers For Atmospheric Research (NCAR) today. The used a model to show where ocean currents may take the oil coming up in the Gulf. It’s important to realize that this is not a forecast of where the oil will be, but a model of where the currents would normally carry it. The NCAR explanation of this is below the video. …
2 June 2010
Oil Slick Spreads Across Gulf- New NASA Image
The latest pass from the NASA Terra Satellite shows the oil slick has spread across a huge area of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Every new image shows it spreading. Late word is that the slick is now only 9 miles from Pensacola Beach and this image bears that out. Here is a close up of the image above: Here is our in house model run over the Gulf for …
3 For 1 Sale on Record Highs In Alaska
Steve Scolnik at Capital Climate had an image on his blog that caught my eye today. It’s a graph of the record highs versus the record lows so far this year in the U.S. (See Graph on the right.) This is something that I have been following for quite awhile. I’m not alone either. The scientists at the National Centers for Atmospheric Research in Boulder have also been watching it. …
1 June 2010
Just As The Mars Hoax Fades Comes This!
One of the best science blogs out there is Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy. He has a post today about a rumour spreading that Betelgeuse is about to go supernova and will fry us all. This is really bad news. Not because it’s true. It isn’t. Betelgeuse may indeed go supernova in the next 100,000 years but it will not fry us. It’s bad news because every one of us Meteorologists …
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.