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Weather Story

The "Weather Story" from the National weather service in Grand Junction. http://weather.gov/gjt

GOES West Infrared

GOES West weather satellite infrared image from the NOAA Geostationary Satellite Server http://www.goes.noaa.gov/

Water Vapor

Water Vapor image from the NOAA Weather Website in Grand Junction http://weather.gov/gjt

Jet and satellite

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.

GOES West Visible Full Disk
full disk visible image of the western hemisphere, which is mostly the Pacific Ocean. Provided by the NOAA Geostationary Satellite Server http://www.goes.noaa.gov/

UV Index

UltraViolet index from the USEPA website http://epa.gov/sunwise/uvindex.html.
  • 0-2 No danger except from not enough sun, take vitamin D
  • 3-5 Little harm from unprotected exposure to sun unless you're at higher elevations such as a ski area. Wear sunblock if you're over snow or water.
  • 6-7 High - About 1/2 hour to sunburn. Wear hat sunglasses and sunscreen of at least SPF 15
  • 8-10 Very High - About 15 minutes to skin damage. Wear hat etc as above and avoid sun from 10am to 4pm
  • 11+ Extreme - Less than 10 min to skin damage. Panic! Not really, just be really careful! Follow above precautions and wear long sleeves and pants too.


SOHO

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.
Xray graph of sun

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.



Sea surface temperatures in degrees Celcius from NOAA
Graph of the last 90 days of the East River near Cement Creek in Gunnison County, CO, USA

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 :-)
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