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The "Weather Story" from the National weather service in Grand Junction. http://weather.gov/gjt GOES West weather satellite infrared image from the NOAA Geostationary Satellite Server http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ Water Vapor image from the NOAA Weather Website in Grand Junction http://weather.gov/gjt
National visible image with a jetstream analysis from the California Regional Web Server http://virga.sfsu.edu/ Check the date on this image, sometimes it is not updated regularly.
UltraViolet index from the USEPA website http://epa.gov/sunwise/uvindex.html.
This is a current xray image of our sun's corona at 304 Å taken by the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) onboard the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). From NASA's SOHO website http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ Go to http://spaceweather.com/ for more information about our star. A CCD Bakeout is needed when the telescope image gets blurry from condensation on the lens. Then NASA heats up the charge-coupled detector to evaporate water and other compounds. The EIT is usually back on line in a week, sometimes longer.
This is a graph of two xray wavelengths of our Sun measured by instruments on the satellite GOES 10. Watch for solar flares which are spikes towards the middle or top of the graph. M-Class flares may cause brief radio blackouts and satellite difficulties. X-class flares spark lengthy radiation storms that cause planet wide radio blackouts and occasionally electrical grid problems. Set your alarm clock and look for auroras a few days after this graph spikes! NASA is sharing SOHO data on the website http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/. The graph flatlines when the satellite is eclipsed.
East River at Cement Creek discharge in cubic feet per second (cfs) for the previous 90 days. The grey triangles are the average discharge for the last 27 years. Graph and data provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Weather for Gunnison County, Colorado with satellite images of the western US and other fun things :-) www.gunnisoninsects.org |