January 2012
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Jan 27th
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good: A Gorgeous Time-Lapse of Lighting Storms Over Africa From Space The world is beautiful, especially from a view like this.  theatlanticvideo: This time-lapse shot from the International Space Station reveals the Milky Way as storms illuminate Africa below. The video is courtesy of the Crew Earth Observations group at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Jan 26th
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Daylit astronomy →
bobulate: I have been inseparable from The Cloudspotter’s Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds after receiving it as a gift a few days ago. In it, I’ve just learned of “cloud streets:” Low clouds can line up parallel to the wind to form Cumulus radiatus. Also known as ‘cloud streets’, they’re the Roman roads of the cloud road. See also: So irregular is their movement that when...
Jan 24th
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December 2011
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Dec 23rd
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Campaign for Real Snowflakes →
snowflakes can only have 6, 3, or 12 sides, every other type of snowflake is scientifically wrong.
Dec 21st
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Lightning Sprites Caught Exploding Over Thunderclouds (JBC) via Wired Science
Dec 6th
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November 2011
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Dark Sky -  an app to give very short term weather forecasts with fancy cleaned up radar data via jackadamblog
Nov 10th
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October 2011
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Hector Thunderstorm Project (Murray Fredericks) via Super Colossal
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Oct 25th
“The idea of blogging in the sky through the medium of artificial...”
– BLDGBLOG
Oct 12th
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Rider on the Storm
“I’d see lightning,” Rankin would later muse, “Boy, do I remember that lightning. I never exactly heard the thunder; I felt it.” Amidst the electrical spectacle, the storm’s capricious winds pressed Rankin downward until he encountered the powerful updrafts—the same updrafts that keep hailstones aloft as they accumulate ice–which dragged him and his chute thousands of feet back up into the storm....
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