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Strongest sand storm ever captured on satellite over the Sahara
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| 04/03/03
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Posted on 03/03/2004 1:51:27 PM PST by Truth666
Click on link to see the satellite photo. The Canary Islands are the only inhabited area affected.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; cloudformation; mineraldust; prozacchewables; sahara; sandstorm; weather
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To: Ichneumon
That is awesome.
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posted on
03/03/2004 2:48:42 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Guillermo
That sand is blowing in the direction of the north atlantic, towards the canary islands. I wonder how come so much of it is winding up over central Europe.
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posted on
03/03/2004 2:52:29 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: Ichneumon
Dad gum! You can almost see nekkid women on the beach on Tenerife in that picture.
To: Ichneumon
Yes, the sand is of course lifted off the ground, but the amount would not be visible in this photo. Even if it were lifted up into the air as high as the top of Mount Everest, the vertical component would only be equal to five pixels of this image (less than 1% of its width). I don't have enough background in remote sensing to assess the pixel by pixel attributes of the vertical mixing versus horizontal diffusion and/or advection of the sand in the image.
Just wanted to clarify that the physical process responsible was doing both.
By the way, your analogy of the thickness of the atmosphere (and significant orographic features) comes as a new way of explaining it to me and I like it. I was used to the old standby of a dime on a common globe, but hadn't heard it from a pool ball perspective...
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posted on
03/03/2004 2:53:35 PM PST
by
!1776!
To: Truth666
Strongest sand storm ever captured on satellite over the Sahara For some reason I read SAND WORM .... and started looking for pictures of Arakkis ... criminy I read too much science fiction.
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posted on
03/03/2004 3:01:52 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Resolve to perform what you must; perform without fail that what you resolve.)
To: Truth666
46
posted on
03/03/2004 3:03:23 PM PST
by
Truth666
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Why doesn't that sand in the ocean sink? This is a fake.
CG
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posted on
03/03/2004 3:03:25 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(The word "Tagline" needs to be added to Free Republic's Spell Check.)
To: Ichneumon
Loaded it. Oh wow...never in my life have I seen something like that. The effects of that must have been horrific.
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posted on
03/03/2004 3:24:06 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Guillermo
"I blame Global Warming."Couldn't be ... the Mars(ians) are falling all over themselves to prove water once existed on Mars, but is long gone now. The temperature at Mars is like eleventeen gazillion degrees below zero, therefore, any evolutionary activity Mars experienced is yet on going with the universe (of which we are part) and thus proves global cooling ... not warming.
Methinks the Mars alchemists had better tread carefully to keep from upsetting the evolutionists.
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posted on
03/03/2004 3:31:01 PM PST
by
knarf
(A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
To: Truth666
Where will this sand end up? DC? Alps? Oslo?
To: blam
Good info
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posted on
03/03/2004 3:36:44 PM PST
by
Cold Heart
(If you follow the government food pyramid you will look like it)
To: Thinkin' Gal
"Where will this sand end up? DC? Alps? Oslo?" See my post #27.
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posted on
03/03/2004 3:41:41 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Thanks for the info. I meant "affected so far".
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posted on
03/03/2004 5:04:36 PM PST
by
Truth666
To: Joe Boucher
I grew up in Coral Gables. Been a Dolphan all my life.
I got the picture from the link provided by the original poster.
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posted on
03/03/2004 6:14:05 PM PST
by
Guillermo
(It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
To: Conspiracy Guy
Why doesn't that sand in the ocean sink? Because of all of that Cellophane.
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posted on
03/03/2004 8:07:46 PM PST
by
lepton
To: Prodigal Son
Thanks. That's what I thought too. But when I first looked at it, my mind just read 'vertical' and I couldn't see it any other way after that. It's hard to fight optical illusions (even when they arise accidentally in an image).
For example, the following is a static image, and is *not* animated. But try telling your brain that:
Plus I slept through those required six semesters of 'Analyzing Satellite Imagery of Saharan Sand Storms' so I was probably heading into this conundrum with a disadvantage ;-)
ROFL!!
To: Ichneumon
Fantastic image. thanks
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posted on
03/04/2004 4:18:05 AM PST
by
Truth666
To: lepton
DOH! I should have thought of that.
Thanks
CG
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posted on
03/04/2004 4:35:45 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
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To: Ichneumon
By the way, the sand storm was caused by extrem cold
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posted on
03/04/2004 4:52:43 AM PST
by
Truth666
To: Truth666
The mass reached the Cape Verde islands - again never seen before
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004065-0305/CapeVerde.A2004065.1240.1km.jpg
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posted on
03/06/2004 5:28:19 AM PST
by
Truth666
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