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Here's a pretty shot of the Chesapeake in springtime, taken Tuesday by the Modis Rapid Response Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.
The region looks very green now as trees reach full leaf and lawns and farm fields green up.
Warm air rising off the land produces lots of fluffy cumulus clouds, but cooler bay water cuts off that warming both over the water and downwind along the western parts of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
Comments
Don't let Al Gore and his dilettantes see this pic. It'll ruin their day.
FR: Huh?
Posted by: Randy | May 13, 2009 4:21 PM