chumble spuzz

The view from our living room Sunday afternoon. The weather downtown and to the south was really overcast and rainy, but it was sunny to the north and there was a rainbow from Queen Anne to Wallingford across Lake Union.

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Pretty cool. This composite image from NASA shows where water from the Mississippi River has flowed since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the spillway leading to the Morganza Floodway.

Morganza Floodway after Five Days of Flow

Five days after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened a flood control structure, or spillway, onto the Morganza Floodway, water had spread 15–20 miles (24–32 kilometers) southward across the Louisiana landscape…

…The false–color images combine infrared, red, and green wavelengths to help distinguish between water and land. Clear water is blue, and sediment-laden water is a dull blue-gray. Vegetation is red; the brighter the red, the more robust the vegetation. Gray patches away from the center of the floodway are likely farm fields that have recently been burned or cleared.

(via NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day)

Inside Out

A man reacts as his umbrella snaps against strong winds as Typhoon Fanapi hits Taipei, Sept. 19. Business stopped in Taiwan on Sunday as the mid-strength typhoon made landfall, bringing heavy rains and strong wind gusts as officials scrambled to prevent a repeat of the devastation caused by a 2009 storm. Typhoon Fanapi, Taiwan’s most severe storm so far in 2010 with wind gusts of up to 123 mph, had canceled all domestic flights and a handful of international ones on Sunday (Nicky Loh / Reuters).

(via Photoblog - Inside out)