Interesting weather...?
Sep. 20th, 2014 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cairistionaBeing bored last night, I decided to open the weather radar app on my phone last night, as one does. (What, you mean you don't?)
I don't live in El Paso, but I was virtual-traversing the southwest US, checking on the remains of Hurricane Odile, and happened across this radar signature from an area of Mexico just S/SW of El Paso (the National Weather Service doesn't of course have radar sites in Mexico, but the El Paso office one extends a little ways into that country. Radar is no respecter of borders and border patrols, what can I say).
It was so unusual that I decided to do some screen shots of it and made a rather rough .gif (apologies for the herky-jerky quality. This is the first attempt I've done at .gif making!) And putting it under a cut so the blinky doesn't drive y'all nuts on your flist page.
So... any guesses on what may have caused this? The answer is under the cut.
Holy batcave, Batman... yes, it's bats emerging from a cave for their nightly feeding! Isn't that fascinating?? I mean... look at the SIZE of that image... it's as big as El Paso itself. It must be millions of bats.
I love this planet.
I don't live in El Paso, but I was virtual-traversing the southwest US, checking on the remains of Hurricane Odile, and happened across this radar signature from an area of Mexico just S/SW of El Paso (the National Weather Service doesn't of course have radar sites in Mexico, but the El Paso office one extends a little ways into that country. Radar is no respecter of borders and border patrols, what can I say).
It was so unusual that I decided to do some screen shots of it and made a rather rough .gif (apologies for the herky-jerky quality. This is the first attempt I've done at .gif making!) And putting it under a cut so the blinky doesn't drive y'all nuts on your flist page.
So... any guesses on what may have caused this? The answer is under the cut.
Holy batcave, Batman... yes, it's bats emerging from a cave for their nightly feeding! Isn't that fascinating?? I mean... look at the SIZE of that image... it's as big as El Paso itself. It must be millions of bats.
I love this planet.
