2008 Weather Satellite Infrared Time-lapse

All the weather for 2008 in the contiguous US states from the eastern GOES satellite. Details discussed at http://egb13.net/2009/03/2008geos/

This was the wettest year on record here in the mid-Mississippi valley, and the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was a fairly busy one.

Note that the images used here do not show clouds per se — it is infrared sensing. That generally correlates to cloud cover, but its not identical. There are often low clouds when this image would make you think the sky is clear. High clouds and thick clouds with high tops — the weather makers — are what these images show most clearly. And those are the interesting ones, of course.

The whorl and play of weather systems sweeping across the continent is always fascinating. In certain seasons you can see sea breeze convergence creating diurnal pulses of cumulus clouds over Florida and the Greater Antilles. The rain shadow of mountain ranges is evident.

Video portion released under the Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 U.S. License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/).

These audio clips are used under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/): Thunder.wav by inchadney (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=57062); thunder_BCN.wav by TwistedLemon (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=6113); windchimes.mp3 by psakion (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=13291)

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