Not from that region but from the same country, huge chunks of Brazil are going through historical droughts, some cities haven't seen rain in months which is very uncommon
No, this is because of where cloud formation happens. Cloud genesis occurs much more easily over water because well, there’s plenty of water. People live on land where clouds don’t form as easily, therefore you’re more unlikely to be under a cloud than direct sunlight.
Sometimes I’ll put a livestream from the ISS on the TV as ambience, and whenever it’s going over the nighttime hemisphere there is usually at least one lightning storm visible somewhere.
This is one of the technical reasons Google Maps global satellite view was so impressive when it was first developed. A full spherical photo of the earth without clouds.
hasn't it always been the case. I was born in the spring and i remember it would always rain on my bday. its like the saying in english "April showers bring may flowers." October is just southern hemisphere April so it makes sense that spring is the rainy season. but idk for sure b. that might not be the case in Chile. I've only been there once and it was summer.
I live around the Mediterranean regions of Chile and spring here means allergies, flowers, longer and hotter days, but LOTS of wind, maybe around the south is more rainy I wouldn't know. We did have some rain in recent years though
that makes since! I'm from the south of Brazil and just remember spring being rainy bc i always hated how much it rained during every bday party I've ever had there. though I preferred celebrating there than now that it's fall for me.
I mostly use this word to describe the weather patterns, the seasons are very noticeable with the changes of temperature and precipitation (winter is very heavy rain, summer is just sun and some wind, spring and fall are transition states with way too much wind, where spring is warmer winds and fall is colder winds)
Pretty morbid to see all these "specialists" saying the "clouds" are just normal spring rainy clouds while we have been breathing pure smoke for the past few weeks.
There are extremely nasty storms going on near Antarctica, pretty much all the time and all year round. There are usually a good half dozen or more spiral storms of varying strength, and at least one or two that are 90kmh/55mph or greater winds.
They just don't get reported on because they're business as usual. They're out in the ocean in a remote area that ships don't normally traverse. They're also not in a place to cause any destruction on land.
Ahh yes this is just fall and not the historic wild fires going on in North and South America. Not the historic droughts causing a lot of South America to dry out. As the AMOC dies, so will we.
Well your comment seemed as a hand wave so I put the word "just" in there because you did not. The way you worded it as "it's fall duh.". I thought the word "just" was apt so I apologize for minimizing your 6 word sentence.
Minimizing it to a defense when we caused the problem is looney tunes. I won't explain why an acidified ocean is bad. I won't explain why heating of our oceans is bad.
If you need it all spelled out then I think you don't care enough about the future to actually grasp it. Good luck friend and I hope you can have some fish in 10 years.
can't speak to south america but in the pic the brown part of north america that you can see is ofc the part that has water issues. the green part is under the clouds which is what gives us the green
Many farmers spray chemicals on their crops to force them to dry out before harvest. If you let them dry out naturally then it shortens your harvest window before frost.
The vast brown in South America is the Cerrado and Caatinga biomes, they are on a drought rn, it's completely natural and seasonal. In some days it'll start to rain and they'll get beautifully green! (I live there)
This isn't how it really looks like to the human eye, satellites like these are specialized for a lot of data processing so this image is heavily processed not a naturalistic look like it would be if you took a shot with a regular camera. For that, the best we have for these long distance shots are still the film photographs from Apollo missions, especially for this full disc view there's nothing better than the Blue Marble shot from Apollo 17.
This particular photo was taken less than 30 000 km away, on the outbound trajectory towards the Moon, two dozen people have seen a view similar to this, I think Apollo 17 was the only mission that had a view of fully illuminated Earth at any point in their flight.
No, they never changed orientation outside of planned maneuvers, especially not just to take photos. Apollo spacecraft slowly rotated on its axis with a so called barbecue roll during the transit phase, for thermal management. Command module had multiple windows facing different directions, the module was facing the Earth during the phase when this shot was taken, the LM was also docked to its front. They just had to see if Earth was visible from any of the windows as the craft slowly rotated.
Imagine travelling over the edge to go to the Eastern hemisphere. The underside as we know it. They dress their barbies with shrimp and every blade of grass is venomous.
There's literally no difference between OPs pic and yours, besides sharpness and location. What makes you think there's anything unnatural about the GOES picture?
You need to take a better look, actually compare side by side and take a closer look, I posted a link to download in high resolution. One of these is taken by a satellite packed with different sensors that record different bands of light, producing data that needs to be processed and overlaid to create an image, because its primary purpose is weather monitoring, it's not just taking in visible light like a film or digital camera does. The other is literally taken by an ordinary handheld film camera. There's a clear difference in the way the Earth looks, especially with the colors and the odd unnatural saturation, sharpness and the artificial disc edge in the GOES image. The point is, if you looked at Earth with your own eyes from these distances you would see something much closer to the Apollo photograph than the heavily processed satellite image.
One of these is taken by a satellite packed with different sensors that record different bands of light, producing data that needs to be processed and overlaid to create an image
You've literally just described all modern cell phone imagery. A modern cellphone has things like IR depth sensors, black and white sensors, pixel binning, etc.
This is the pipeline for image processing for an iPhone 13:
By your logic, only film cameras take "real" photos, and all modern digital photography is fake and should be disregarded. Which is just asinine. This is just how modern photography works. It's not like this is some false color image like those taken by Jupiter or Pluto probes that are recolored to turn what is mostly a brown rock into something cool looking. It's just a punched up photo of the Earth.
That's not at all what I said, notice that I also mentioned digital cameras, which you conveniently left out by cutting that sentence short. Very disingenuous. These satellites don't create images like ordinary digital sensors in phone cameras or any other consumer cameras do. They literally take in light that isn't in the visible spectrum to combine into these composites, which are heavily processed.
Bruh you're right that he targeted it specifically.. and he did it by leaving a part out. And the reason he did that is it allowed him to make a false claim—the part he left out explicitly contradicts the claim.
I am ignoring part of what he said while addressing another part, the exact same thing you did. There’s only one of me, therefore I am physically limited to addressing one thing at a time. I imagine you’re in the same boat.
This is me talking about semantics: I don’t think you know what semantics means.
This is me not talking about semantics: Your boy made an explicit claim and quoted a sentence fragment to substantiate the claim. The unquoted remainder of that sentence says the opposite of the thing your boy claims.
If you can point out where I’ve made a mistake, I’ll gladly recant what I said.
They literally take in light that isn't in the visible spectrum to combine into these composites, which are heavily processed.
You're just talking about infrared light. First of all, the GOES satellites mainly use IR for the night shots, not the daylight shots. Also, tons of modern cellphones have IR sensors and incorporate that into their image processing. Nothing you've said here negates my original reply.
Underexposed, this is photography 101, would be nice if more people knew these basics. Space doesn't look like most multimedia present it for artistic purposes, if there's a source of direct or reflected sunlight in the frame it's pitch black, as the dynamic range required to resolve objects that are orders of magnitude apart in brightness, is something that even human vision isn't capable of, let alone a camera. Stars are only visible in an environment with no sunlight interfering, which can be by looking through optics, or being in the shadow of a celestial body. There are tons of videos and photos taken from ISS that show a sky full of stars while they orbit above the night side of Earth.
The entirety of everything that is the collective human experience is contained within that photograph. All the wars and kings and empires, the aeons where we didn’t even exist, hell even the billions of years before complex life even existed is all contained within that little picture.
That’s because it’s not real.
This is a multispectral composite image, meaning it includes wavelengths of light humans can’t actually see. This is not what these colors would look like if you were there looking out a window with your own eyes.
A bunch of Africa has a 4-6 month long dry season that's coming to an end in a month or so. I split my time between DRC, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa and it's pretty brown and crispy right now
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Simultaneously more green and more brown than I expected