Cool Cloud Stuff, Chat About the Weather
If you haven't already, please check out the new AccuWeather.com Weather Forums (formerly on WeatherMatrix.Net) where you can chat about the weather with other enthusiasts and meteorologists. Folks on the Forums may be covering additional topics, especially regionally, that I am not covering. Here are some important topics from today:
Now, on to some cool cloud stuff from last week. First, check out this timelapse video that I shot on Wednesday (more about how I do these later on a Gadget blog entry). There are a lot of clouds moving at different levels in different directions, some forming and reforming locally. But check out the cool phenomenon around 14:00 (2 PM) where shadows from contrails from jets high above pass over the lower cloud deck. You can download a high-res version here. Click here to rate this video or leave comments for it on the AccuWeather.com Photo Gallery.
Next up, view this Visible Satellite loop from Friday. We're looking down on the East Coast here with an instrument on the satellite which is not much different than your camera. Note that there are several different weather items we can see on this animation, even though on the static image below, everything looks like clouds. There are in fact clouds over Kentucky and West Virginia, moving eastward. But the grey color over the Appalachians is not moving and is snow cover. Down in North Carolina we have fog, which shrinks after sunrise, and clouds moving over it in the Eastern part of the state. (Snow cover can shrink after sunrise on a satellite loop too, but it takes pretty warm air to do that. Fog is generally a lighter white and more widespread).
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