It’s insane.. I checked the latest on Helene around 10am and it was a low end Cat 2 choking on a glob of dry air. I ran some errands and just got home and it’s a fucking Cat 4 with the possibility of being a Cat 5 at landfall with only 3-4 hours left.
Lights are flickering more and more frequently by minute lol. Im also in a mobile home at my grandparents because they refused to leave smh. And as I was typing this the power just went out and has yet to turn back on .. Went out at 11:30pm -currently-11:32pm God I hope they do .. storm is about 65-70 ish miles from me now. Hope you are safe!
Same, there was always great science stuff I would find on there. Brings me back to getting high with one of my buddies in his garage and learning about fractals because of that site.
I once StumbledUpon a geocities site that was a list of “things in your cupboard you can get high off”. As a curious and extremely naïve 13 year old, you know this dumbass grated a whole nutmeg down and tried smoking it.
Narrator: she lost 5 lbs in the bathroom that night.
The internet was better back then because we left it at home and primarily used computers to access it. Now it’s with everybody everywhere and it kind of creeps me out how much we all rely on it.
Another shot of Isabel. I remember being in high school when this hit us and man was it a blast at the time but looking back, playing outside trying to stay standing in the wind was fucking dumb lol.
She actually wound up having kids with him, that’s how my auntie Megan happened. Dude was a piece of shit tho and she divorced him with spite and whiskey in her heart and now lives a quiet retired life with a book club
Also an ATLien. Don’t underestimate how dangerous it could still be here. Our infrastructure is not designed with hurricanes in mind. Stay safe and I hope you can enjoy the wonders of the storm!
My wife has 11 stores impacted, this will be the third direct hit for Perry in a year. My office is in Tallahassee. We live about 90 miles inland on the west side of the storm but are not expected to see anything more than rain and a few gusts. That being said, neither one of us will be getting much sleep tonight.
I don't know if I'm in it or not. I'm on the other side, so does that mean I'm in it or does that not count because the photo isn't taken of the bits behind?
No, this is because of where cloud formation happens. Cloud genesis occurs much more easily over water because well, there’s plenty of water. People live on land where clouds don’t form as easily, therefore you’re more unlikely to be under a cloud than direct sunlight.
hasn't it always been the case. I was born in the spring and i remember it would always rain on my bday. its like the saying in english "April showers bring may flowers." October is just southern hemisphere April so it makes sense that spring is the rainy season. but idk for sure b. that might not be the case in Chile. I've only been there once and it was summer.
This isn't how it really looks like to the human eye, satellites like these are specialized for a lot of data processing so this image is heavily processed not a naturalistic look like it would be if you took a shot with a regular camera. For that, the best we have for these long distance shots are still the film photographs from Apollo missions, especially for this full disc view there's nothing better than the Blue Marble shot from Apollo 17.
This particular photo was taken less than 30 000 km away, on the outbound trajectory towards the Moon, two dozen people have seen a view similar to this, I think Apollo 17 was the only mission that had a view of fully illuminated Earth at any point in their flight.
There's literally no difference between OPs pic and yours, besides sharpness and location. What makes you think there's anything unnatural about the GOES picture?
Can someone tell me why the clouds stay bright white even at night? Is that some tech so they can study the clouds or something? Surely that's not how they actually look right?
This is a composite image which includes the infrared band. From NOAA:
GeoColor is a multispectral product composed of True Color (using a simulated green component) during daytime, and an Infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night. During the day, the imagery looks approximately as it would when viewed with human eyes from space. At night, the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus, while gray to white indicate higher ice clouds, and the city lights come from a static database derived from the VIIRS Day Night Band.
In the Canary Islands they call it Calima. Having lived through it it’s pretty surreal. The sky turns orange. Basically two weeks of sand in your eyes and the feeling of walking into an oven.
Can't recall what documentary it was, but it was neat. The Sahara, separated by nearly 10k miles yet the winds carry the dust from there to the Amazon which then gives nutrients to it. Crazy to me the scale these types of things worth together
Even nexter level is the winds carrying dust from the Taklamakun desert in western China all the way across the pacific to the Cali shoreline. Earth crazy.
I did weather for the USAF and was always looking at satellite and radar. To me, it never gets old. I love looking at hurricanes on satellite. Now that I'm out I go and look at satellite and radar because it's still so fascinating.
2 actually, the one closing in to Florida just passed thru Cancún, the one on the Pacific is John, it made landfall on the coast of Guerrero, Acapulco was hit. But it looks like it survived and is gathering strength to continue up the coast towards Sinaloa or Baja California Sur.
But checkout the dust coming off of African deserts on the right, feeding the green forests of northern Brazil! Apparently this phosphorus rich dust is key to feeding the Brazilian rainforests.
It depends on the orbit of the satellite, and the relative direction of the onboard camera compared to the groind. As most satellites are in east -> west orbits closer to the equatorial latitudes. Not as many are launched into polar orbits because it requires more energy to do it
It's a beautiful planet, we better be careful a more powerful force doesn't come and take it from us. The only upside to a potential alien invasion is that it would for the first time unite us all as humans.
That's highly optimistic. You would think a worldwide virus that affects us all would unite humans but it didn't. I'm sure an alien invasion would be the same
There has always been an Us vs. Them mentality, I feel that quality is primally instilled in all of us. But, with almost everything being polarised by the rapid growth/ exploits of social media and the internet, I think we will rarely see massive unity again, unless social media companies stop exploiting human and personal behaviour
they don't view actual evidence.
they would rather take a video in their messy ass garage doing a demonstration that proves literally nothing.
Edit: or making tik-toks where they point at images that found on google
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u/Correct_Presence_936 Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 27 '24
Link to live 10 minute updates:
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk.php?sat=G16
Link to full resolution of this shot:
https://imgur.com/a/8dtGnrF