Incredible satellite image from space showing all the sediment pouring out into the Pacific from gushing rivers across Northern California.
Also notice the flooded Salinas Valley and muddied waters of the San Francisco Bay and rivers across the Sacramento Valley.
Pretty amazing horizontal vorticity present in this brief footage from the large supercell thunderstorm ongoing NW of Fresno this evening. That's the kind of rotation that could *potentially* become a tornado if the storm's updraft tilts it vertically. #CAwx
California in October 2022 versus March 2023.
From being entrenched in a multi-year extreme drought to having one of the deepest snowpacks on planet Earth.
June 21, 2022
Welcome to the Solstice. On this day...
1. the North Pole tips directly to the Sun - 23.5 degrees
2. the entire Arctic circle never sees sunset
3. the entire Antarctic circle never sees daylight
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@lillylilc I had no idea there was a meteor shower tonight. That explains why I saw two of them a while ago. You are not seeing them because you live in the lit up city. You have to be somewhere dark.
You are here.
In 2013, the Cassini spacecraft captured this wide-angle view of Saturn and a chunk of its rings. That pale blue dot just below the rings? That’s Earth from about 898 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away. Explore @NASASolarSystem: https://t.co/9sLPATJHaE