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- From: awtron@strawber.princeton.edu (Andrew Tron)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: SATELLITE PHOTO
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.155631.8911@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:56:31 GMT
- References: <16NOV92.12028663.0072@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <1992Nov18.203418.13263@ke4zv.uucp>
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- In article <1992Nov18.203418.13263@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >In article <16NOV92.12028663.0072@VM1.MCGILL.CA> IEGS@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA (IEGS000) writes:
- >>COULD SOMEONE HELP ME: SUPPOSE A HURRICANE JUST BLEW IN! WHERE CAN I
- >>FIND A SATELLITE PHOTOS OF IT'S PROGRESS?
- >
- >Try the Weather Channel, or if you don't have cable, your local broadcast
- >TV station's weathercast.
- >
- You can also get North American satellite photos in .gif format via anonymous
- ftp. The site is "vmd.cso.uiuc.edu". Once you connect, cd to directory
- "wx". The current visual and infrared high-resolution images are stored
- in the files "cvis.gif" and "cir.gif". You can also get images from the
- past 24 hours -- however these are lower resolution to conserve disk space.
- Be sure to set mode to "binary" before getting the images.
-
- A note on interpreting the infrared images: basically speaking, a whiter
- portion of the image == colder cloud tops == higher cloud tops == more severe
- weather. This bit of info I got from a weather briefer at Milville Flight
- Service Station while I was waiting out a line of thunderstorms.
- --
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- Andrew Tron at Princeton University | awtron@strawber.Princeton.EDU
- And of the living ... none, not one who truly loves the sky
- Would trade a hundred earth bound hours for one that he could fly.
-