Another Satellite Post: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS)

Satellites are pretty cool, and NASA keeps coming with new ideas and technologies that will help meteorologists. These satellites in particular, the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), will be used to measure winds at the ocean surface and in hurricanes. How will this work? CYGNSS uses GPS signals that are constantly bouncing off the ground! This small constellation of satellites receives the GPS signals and from how distorted these signals are it can determine how fast the winds are blowing at the surface. Cool! Read more about this satellite here: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/category/cygnss/?src=eoa-features

Japans new Satellite

http://nyti.ms/1KUCcqC

Check out this article about Japan's new weather observing satellite!! (several cool animations) The United States is building a new satellite similar to this one.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/10/science/An-Image-of-Earth-Every-Ten-Minutes.html?_r=2

Southern California Jet

Satellite Image July 10, 2015 13:15 UTC



From an email originating from Brian Tang:

This is one of the most impressive barotropic breakdowns of a vorticity strip that I've seen. Smoke from the Canadian fires is allowing us to observe this breakdown in the visible band, along with the WV band. Truly a beautiful example of geophysical turbulence and the cascade of big whirls to little whirls.

Double Rainbow

Photo Credit: to Kylee Thurston. Thanks for the amazing picture!

Double Rainbow in Spanish Fork as seen from near the 1-15/US-6 interchange

Gusty winds in Provo Right Now!

Wow! Look at the 52 mph wind gust on BYU campus! I can confirm that observation. My apartment is only a few blocks south of the Eyring Science Center. The trees were bending quite a bit, and a group of those college kids in the parking lot out back were using bed sheets as sails for their skateboards. Also in

The radar showed some widespread rain, and we had a rainbow to prove it was raining, but there were only a few drops on my window.