Night two of the Pineland Road Fire being blown out to the west by a sea breeze front. Rough satellite estimates prior to this had it near 30,000 acres. Suspect it makes headlines tomorrow as smoke travels up I-75 tonight towards Macon and the Atlanta metro.
Inside the Wyoming, IA tornado today!
Predawn Falcon 9 Starlink launch to light up the eastern sky
In the 1960s, the similar Apollo 8 mission prompted at least one person to write to NASA "You saved 1968," dramatized here in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon
youtu.be/AdCelJZkWBc?...
I recently made positive comments about wind energy on a Facebook link and was swamped by an organized bot/troll army. The number of Republicans who'd willingly destroy the world just "to own the libs" is unbelievable and saddening.
#Artemis II - Photo 2 from yesterdays flyby
ECLIPSE.
April 6, 2026.
Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed. Photo: NASA
🚀🌕🌑
Can someone, anyone, in Congress please do their job and get him out of office?
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
#Artemis2 launch via GOES-19 imagery: visible, near-IR, and mid level water vapor. Imagery courtesy of College of Dupage.
Our sunset is 7:33 pm, so a launch anytime after ~7:55 to the end of the window (8:24) should be visible low on the southern horizon from here.
NASA doughnuts to celebrate what will hopefully be a successful launch of the #Artemis2 mission this evening! Launch is scheduled for 6:24 pm eastern daylight time.
I'm at Maides Park today through 2 pm for the Wilmington Science Fest to get folks excited about citizen science. Hoping to get lots of new sign-ups for the CoCoRaHS volunteer rain gauge network!
After a cold and a snowy winter (by local standards) spring is really here. Love seeing the blooms all over the yard: citrus, blueberries, and azaleas shown here.
This is yet another horrible decision by the current administration that ties us down to fossil fuels and will hurt the planet and its people for generations to come. Cape Fear's renewable #wind energy resources would be amazing if we were allowed to use them.
This sounds a lot like burning the bedroom furniture to stay warm for a single night
Yep! For me this is Little Richard's BBQ in Winston-Salem
2025-2026 seasonal snowfall totals as a percentage of normal. While a good deal of the West has had a warm dry winter, parts of the East Coast have had heavier than normal totals. Here in Wilmington our 5.8 inch seasonal snowfall was over 6 times the normal of 0.9" #ncwx
The world is a long, long way from transitioning completely away from fossil fuels, but I'm glad to see others share this aspirational goal.
The rocket was probably 90 to 100 miles in altitude as it passed by NC. The sun was already up at that altitude which lit up the exhaust from reflected light - one of the nicer launches I've seen recently! Fog and clouds were well below it.
Spectacular colors! I watched from farther up the coast and it was much more mono-chromatic here.
Watched it from the Cape Fear coast in North Carolina
Watched this morning's SpaceX Falcon 9 (Starlink 10-40) carrying more communications satellites into orbit. From Wrightsville Beach, NC
In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms
A glimmer sparked by electrical fields has been detected in nature for the first time.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/3OGhOlM
Fog and low clouds burning off over the coastal Carolinas this morning. From GOES-19 one-minute imagery #ncwx #scwx
Prepare to by hypnotized by this mesmerizing low pressure system swirling over the Pacific Ocean.
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
Watched planes landing from kayak yesterday. Smith Creek in Wilmington.
Reminded me of this antenna NASA designed over 20 years ago using a computer "evolutionary" process. ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...
If this was officially released I missed the announcement, but it appears the NWS has opened up the DESI (Dynamic Ensemble-based Scenarios for IDSS) viewer to the public. View blends and statistics (10th, 50th, mean, 90th percentiles) from the HREF, NBM, HRRR and more. sites.gsl.noaa.gov/desi
