Posts Tagged ‘environment’
bird’s nest: a synopsis
Blue Jays: 4 Robin: 0
Well, it was fun to watch the bird cam for a few days while mama bird kept her four eggs warm, but in the end, after discovering her nest hidden cleverly in a hanging house plant, some nefarious blue jays absconded with her eggs and she was never to be seen again. The only evidence left: a disheveled nest, swinging gently in the breeze.
…Or in this case the driveway, if you’re there, let me just say that you can definitely hear it. Our house barely got a scrape, but on the easement just out back, right off the side of the patio, the neighbor’s Ford got pinned down…but it’s a solid beast and took a lickin’ and just kept on tickin’. It was windy last week, but today was relatively calm when this happened. here’s video of the tree people cutting down the rest of the tree.
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swing high, sweet chariot
from sky: “Three years after Katrina I wanted to make a statement about the state of the clean-up operation.”
NASA’s TRMM spacecraft observed this view of Hurricane Gustav on August 27, 2008 as it attacked Haiti. At this time the storm was a category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 65 knots (75 mph) and a pressure reading of 992 millibars. The cloud cover is taken by TRMM’s Visible and Infrared Scanner(VIRS) and the GOES spacecraft. The rain structure is taken by TRMM’s Tropical Microwave Imager (TMI) and TRMM’s Precitation Radar(PR) instruments. TRMM looks underneath of the storm’s clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. Blue represents areas with at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour. Green shows at least 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Yellow is at least 1.0 inches of rain and red is at least 2.0 inches of rain per hour.
Made by the awesome nerds at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio (I wish I was one of them).
