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Some recent illustrations I’ve made for Reports From Unknown Places, my meteorological fiction project.
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ALTA selection of some recent illustrations I’ve made for Reports From Unknown Places, my daily meteorological fiction project.
This week is Earth Science Week! It runs from 9-15 October and is an awesome time to explore and reflect on the natural world around you. Earth science is a diverse field that encompasses geology, oceanography and meteorology - it’s essentially the study of how the forces of our planet intersect.
Celebrate by learning a bunch of interesting stuff:
- Everything You Need to Know About Planet Earth
- Fly over an erupting volcano with a drone
- Interactive article: Greenland is Melting Away
- BBC’s short, simple animated guides to volcanoes, tsunamis, and more
- Earthquake Science, and the Disaster that Created It
- NASA’s awesome visualisation of the flow of surface ocean currents
The above photos are some of the winners of the Geological Society of London’s 2016 Earth Science Week photo competition. Click through to see the rest!
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Sunsets and Cloud Scapes over Düsseldorf, photographed in April, July and August 2018
Düsseldorf Skies Sunsets and Cloud Scapes over Düsseldorf, photographed in April, July and August 2018
It’s amazing how quickly snow melts and vanishes here in Pueblo, Colorado. These are aerials taken one day apart back in late February. Both of these shots were taken on my DJI Mavic Pro.
2/21/2018
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“No two snowflakes are alike”
Snowflakes caught on black velvet then captured by light sensitive plates
“Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind.”
“A careful study of this internal structure not only reveals new and far greater elegance of form than the simple outlines exhibit, but by means of these wonderfully delicate and exquisite figures much may be learned of the history of each crystal, and the changes through which it has passed in its journey through cloud-land. Was ever life history written in more dainty hieroglyphics!”
Wilson Bentley (1865-1931)
Biography from the Museum of Everything
Wilson Snowflake Bentley was a farmer, entrepreneur, meteorologist and artist, who dedicated his life to the photography of snow.
Born in 1865 to a poor country family in Vermont, Bentley’s imagination was first sparked by his mother’s gift of a microscope on his 15th birthday. Bentley taught himself how to use the contraption, combined it with a Bellow’s camera and embarked upon his creative journey.
By the age of 20, Bentley had taught himself how to immortalise the structure of frozen water on glass plates. Over the next 40 years, he would assemble a vast encyclopaedia of scientific abstraction, photographing several thousands of individual snowflakes and frosts.
Bentley’s achievements led to a greater understanding of the uniqueness, importance and beauty of this natural form. Yet Bentley was far more than a passionate hobbyist. He was a self-styled outlier and adventurer, who realised the potential of microphotography to capture the impossible individuality of each and every crystalline flake.
In his lifetime, Bentley proselytised his discoveries across the United States, sending prints and plates to Museums, Universities and more. The public and press championed his achievements; yet the scientific and cultural communities of the time were often reluctant to welcome the innovations of this pioneering image maker.
Today, over one hundred years later, Bentley’s photographs are celebrated not simply as science, but as art. His microphotographs are featured in public and private collections worldwide, and are regularly curated in exhibitions such as Massimiliano Gioni’s The Keeper at the New Museum in New York (2016) and The Museum of Everything in Rotterdam (2016) and Australia (2017/18).
Wilson Snowflake Bentley died of pneumonia after being caught in a snowstorm in 1931.
Sources:
Snowflake Man Bio — Snowflake Bentley
https://href.li/?https://www.gallevery.com/artists/wilson-bentley#
Here’s Where the Saying ‘No Two Snowflakes Are Alike’ Originated
Earthursday
Ritter, M. “Temecula Cloudburst,” Temecula, California.
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Aren’t these the cutest? ☁️
Did you celebrate Valentine’s Day today? Tell me what you did!
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#weather #meteorology #meteorologist #clouds #kawaii #cloud #sunshine #sun #cloud9 #cloudnine #weatherphotos #kawaiiaesthetic #cutesy #cutekawaii
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The “Breast Cloud”: Mammatus clouds are a rare formation that often accompany thunderstorms. They are named after… well, mamma,which means “udder” or “breast”. The reasons behind their formation are cloudy, but they only appear during rapid changes of moisture, temperature, and wind speed.
(Image credit goes to Wikipedia,En-Derin,andflickr.)
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We all know that blizzards are more likely to occur in the winter, but do you know when you are most likely to witness a waterspout? If not, this graphic is for you.
These calendar heat maps show the annual trends for ten weather-related phenomena. To generate them, I summed the number of instances of each event for every day of the year between 2005 and 2014, inclusive. I then converted the counts to percentiles separately for each type event so that I could use a consistent scale, which ranges from 10th percentile (anything less is light yellow) to 90th percentile (anything greater is dark green).
A few fun facts:
-Though wildfires are uncommon in the winter months, there is an outlier on January 1st. Possibly due to fireworks, but July 3rd is more wildfire prone than July 4th!
-Of the events graphed, hail is the most concentrated in a single month (June). Lightning, which is also associated with thunderstorms, is slightly more common in the summer months rather than late spring.
-While funnel clouds and tornadoes exhibit similar seasonality, most commonly occurring in the spring, waterspouts prefer the summer.
Data source:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/sym/pd01016005curr.pdf (definitions of the terms)
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