Showing posts with label Google Earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Earth. Show all posts
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
The weather in Texas - Aug 17, 2007
Around 7:45PM
And around 11:45PMBeen raining & thundering like crazy all day and all evening. Been hearing of lots of closed roads & flooding.
My street looked like a river earlier, the water was all the way across and going over the curbs into yards. I think my Camaro which was parked on the side of the street probably has water inside it.
All the lakes, creeks, and rivers around here are already full so I don't know where all this rain is going to run off to... and they say Texas might get hit by Hurricane Dean next week... great... oh and just now the rain started picking up again as I wrote this...
Hurricane Dean - Satellite Images - Aug 17, 2007
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Hurricane DeanAug 17, 2007
Screenshots from Google Earth
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Stormy weather in TX tonight.
Some wild weather around Texas this evening. They were just showing flooding around the DFW area & NW of Ft. Worth on the Weather Channel. Most of it missed us today here in Abilene.
Update: Midland, TX area reportedly received 93mph winds last night.. large areas of the stage received another 3-6+ inches of rain... lots of areas with high water... oh and the company I work for has several offices in the Western High Plains area without internet this morning because of wind damage to wireless towers belonging to the ISPs.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Different View
Different View
Originally uploaded by CoreBurn.
China's brown haze from a different angle.
Google Earth screenshot with NASA MODIS AQUA overlay.
Brown Cloud from China
Brown Cloud
Originally uploaded by CoreBurn.
China, what's with the giant brown cloud blowing off your coast?? yuck
Google Earth screenshot with NASA MODIS AQUA overlay.
At first it just looks like dust, but if you follow the haze west and zoom in, you start to see lots of little red squares all over the place... fires I guess...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Back to School - Educational Uses with Google Earth
Back to School - Educational Uses with Google Earth
It is close to the end of summer in the northern hemisphere. Many kids are heading back to school after a summer break. For those of you who are educators and have thought, or heard, that Google Earth would make a good tool for geography lessons - let me suggest you look closer. Google Earth (GE) is not only a great tool for geography - it is a tool for tying all kinds of information to location. When you first load GE you have a wealth of information available at your fingertips. Thousands of aerial and satellite photos, dozens of layers of information: city names, country borders, airport locations, road maps, National Geographic content, volcanoes, and more. Since Google Earth is an intuitive and fun tool, I believe you could use it as a visualization and educational tool for almost any subject. Once students prepare their own content, GE can be used to present their work - or even share their work with the world.
Below you will find a sample of possible useful content in a variety of subjects such as geography, literature, science, history, and more. Basically, any information which can be tied to a location on Earth can be illustrated, and made interesting, using GE. Juicy Geography is a web site, by Noel Jenkins in the UK, designed to help teachers learn more about tools like GE for the classroom and suggests possible lessons.
[via Google Earth Blog]
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