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It’s a fantastic comparison of a pair of panoramas photographed at the start of the 20th century to the same panorama photographed today. You can argue that it doesn’t “prove” Man Made Global Warming, but something happened to the glaciers. It’s a fascinating look at changes that we normally can’t see. Things that seem permanent and implacable shown to be transient and ephemeral.
Ecola State Park, OR – May 2010, Photo by Gutter Glitter
May 2010, Cape Disappointment, WA – Photo by Gutter Glitter
Fayetteville, GA – April 2010. Photo by Dragonclaw
Janesville, IA, March 2009 – Photo by Cookie
Janesville, IA – March 2009, photo by cookie
So we ended up getting just under 3 inches of accumulation on raised surfaces Friday night, but we totally whiffed on any snow this morning (though we may get flurries tonight, which won’t accumulate but may look pretty at least).
Sadly my pics are all crappy camera phone pics but they’re what I’ve got, if you have better, let me know and I’ll get em up
Finally really accumulating:
Wet snow accumulating on the branches:
Tree:
Janesville, IA March 2009 – Photo by Cookie
March 2009, Janesville, IA – Photo by cookie
Sadly, it looks like this snow/freezing rain event is going to stay just north of Atlanta. However they’re now predicting snowfall totals well over a foot in A large swath of North Carolina and Southern Virginia. That’s a LOT of snow. Of course freezing rain is never fun, so yeah, good luck over there. it looks like we’re missing it by about 50 miles. given a slight delay or a more southerly track, things could change, but I doubt it.
Snow falling Marietta, GA January 7th – Photo by bloodstar
(from a crappy camera phone no less, as my digital camera was stolen when my car was broken into)
Well This chart is interesting
4 AM tonight… Heavy Iceing north of I-20? We’ll see…
Janesville, IA; March, 2009 – Photo by Cookie
Starke, FL; January, 2009 – Photo by Cookie
Jacksonville, FL; January, 2009 – Photo by Cookie
Kennesaw, GA; December 26th, 2009 – Photo by gutter glitter
Now this is a fantastic little idea:
His latest concept — to launch a camera into near-space using a weather balloon, a cell phone, hand warmers and a drink cooler — fell flat when he sent out an e-mail message to dozens of his classmates, asking for help.
Unfazed, Yeh managed to find one friend willing to chip in. And on September 2, the go-it-alone pair floated a balloon-camera high enough into the atmosphere to photograph the curvature of the Earth and the deep black of space, all on a lunch-money budget of $148.
Of course you have to be careful when sending stuff that high…
Since then, the duo has received a number of requests from other would-be space photographers, asking for their project notes. Yeh said he will post those soon on the project’s Web site at http://space.1337arts.com.
They’ve gotten so many inquiries they had to post this warning: “CAUTION/DISCLAIMER: Launching things into the stratosphere can be DANGEROUS! Please contact the FAA before trying …”