« Give me a hundred tries, I’ll never be able to spell it. » Jimmy McGill I haven’t seen the « Breaking Bad » series but I’m a huge fan of « Better Call Saul ». Both series take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With its dry, sunny weather, Albuquerque is the perfect place for a modern-day Western. Vince Gilligan, the […]
« The most usual weather in these latitudes is a fresh wind between north west and south west with a cloudy overcast sky » – Phillip Parker King, Sailing Directions for the Coasts of Eastern and Western Patagonia (1832). Patagonia is a beautiful place to visit but campers know that the weather is extremely variable and the […]
=> Le volcan Kilauea à Hawaï est un des plus actifs au monde. Cela fait déjà plus de trente ans qu’il est entré en éruption, mais il a fait les gros titres récemment car ses coulées ont atteint l’océan Pacifique, agrandissant le territoire hawaïen de deux hectares d’un coup ! Voilà une technique efficace pour […]
=> Kilauea Volcano in the largest active volcano in Hawaii and one of the most active on Earth. It has been erupting for over 30 years now but hit the headlines recently because a large lava flow traveled up to the ocean, adding 2 brand new hectares to the Hawaiian Islands.
After reading my previous post about the Rutog ice avalanche, my distinguished colleagues Antoine R. and Olivier H. challenged me to look for a pre-event image to better highlight the avalanche area. The closest clear-sky image that I could find is a Landsat-8 image that was acquired on June 24 (23 days before the slide).
The Nature News website reported yesterday on a massive ice avalanche that happened in Rutog, Tibet, on 17 July 2016. This ice avalanche killed 9 people and may be one the largest ever observed. The ice and rock mixture spread over 6 km from the collapse point up to the Aru Co lake shoreline.
NASA’s blog « Image of the Day » recently featured two beautiful MODIS images of the snow cover in Lesotho. In late July Lesotho experienced its heaviest snowfall in two decades. The snow is not uncommon in Lesotho given that over 80% of the country lies above 1800 m. However the frequency of such snow events has […]
Dave Petley wrote a nice article in the AGU’s Landslide blog about a massive landslide in Glacier Bay, Alaska. This huge avalanche of debris was spotted by a local pilot Paul Swanstrom on June 28. When Paul was above it, « dust was still flying ». Later, based on earthquake records in Alaska, the experts figured out […]
=> A few colleagues replied to our campaign to explain some of the dangers of Google Earth Engine. They said : As most (…) of these colleagues are quite sensible, I am not worrying too much. But as far as I am concerned, I would have some chances to be a victim of Mrs-Armitage-on-wheels Syndrom […]