Noted: With the weather upon us, increasingly images of the Pineapple Express are popping up in Twitter accounts. All of them point back to the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which bills itself as “The Mecca of Satellite Meteorology.” I don’t doubt it. There’s a lot to dig through over there, not the least of which is the map above, animated with the past 72 hours of data, and putting this week’s rain into an amazing world-wide context.
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