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Snow Day IV!
Just a few more winter storm pictures! I promise!
Category: Should We Talk About The Weather?
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Snow Day III!… IN 3-D!
Okay, not really 3-D. It was snowing again today for quite a while, somewhat putting an end to the question “Is it getting warm enough to melt this stuff off?” The answer is simply “No… no, it is not.”
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Snow day II!
Since this morning’s blog entry… it snowed. A lot.
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Snow day!
It’s a snow day here at the Greenhaus! Well, a snow-on-top-of-half-an-inch-of-ice day. Which also translates to a fall-on-your-butt day.
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Rainbows
Today me and the little guy saw a rainbow as we drove into Fort Smith to take him to school…
…and we also saw one (though it was much harder to get a picture because of, well… rain) driving home…
…and it landed right on the interstate! We drove through it! Now, I could go on and on about water droplets and sunlight and prismatic diffraction and all that, but you know, as far as Little E is concerned, we drove through a rainbow. Didn’t see any pots of gold, naturally – the way my luck runs, that’s at the other end.
Not a bad day for rainbow spotting, really.… Read more
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People, climate change is REAL!
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Weather wake-up call
One of the cats woke me up shortly before 2am. She was very insistent about it. She then led me into my room and jumped up on my desk, drawing my attention to the giant bow echo that’s on a beeline for us by way of Tulsa and OKC. Fascinating. Is the weather radar display on enough that even a cat has some inkling as to how to interpret it, just from sheer repeat exposure? It’ll be interesting to see if this is a recurring phenomenon.
And yes, it was actually this cat
Cute kittehs with awareness of severe weather could really shake up the TV WX biz, too. *rubs hands together greedily* Contact me the Green Agency for more information. We have a variety of photogenic weather kittehs available to do custom forecasts and weather cut-ins.… Read more
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Central Oklahoma tornado outbreak on radar
If there’s any interest, I’ll process it at full screen resolution. As it is, the knocked-down version is over 2.5 almost 3 almost 5 megs of GIF, so it’s after the jump. … Read more
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Icing
Me and Little E wandered around the house and found lots of things that had their own personal layers of ice.
There were a few shots where the camera lens had fogged over, and I thought these might be unrecoverable until I loaded them up and did some sharpening work on them. Here you can see where the snow has melted out from under the ice on the trees, leaving a hollow shell of ice precariously perched on the tree limbs.
The fogged up lens forced a soft focus/bokeh effect where none was planned.… Read more
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Last report for tonight
The front yard again; any bright, colorful things you see are either freezing rain caught in the flash… or the reflection of the tree limbs and branches in the distance, which are all nicely coated with ice.
And the ice is the real problem at this point; freezing rain keeps coming down, and it keep flirting with being warm enough to turn into liquid rain. The problem there is that there’s a constant biting wind outside keeping everything, including the precipitation, frozen. There’s also a coating of ice on the power lines outside which is a real cause for concern.
On the freaky side, we may actually have thundersnow tonight. I’m actually looking forward to that. 😆… Read more
