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Is there a website that shows real time satellite images that us serfs can access? I'd really like to see what the flooding is like locally, but all I can get are pictures from here and there taken by folks at ground level or the rare aerial pictures from a plane.

Seems that with all of the tech we have today, there'd be something available to us to look at.

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There are modis today images. Cloud cover dependent of course but images are taken each day around noon. I remember seeing tornado tracks with it after the April 2011 tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama. I'll post a link later if Google doesn't do the trick for you.

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Is there a website that shows real time satellite images that us serfs can access? I'd really like to see what the flooding is like locally, but all I can get are pictures from here and there taken by folks at ground level or the rare aerial pictures from a plane.

Seems that with all of the tech we have today, there'd be something available to us to look at.

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There are modis today images. Cloud cover dependent of course but images are taken each day around noon. I remember seeing tornado tracks with it after the April 2011 tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama. I'll post a link later if Google doesn't do the trick for you.

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Saturday the tap turns back on it looks like

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Is there a website that shows real time satellite images that us serfs can access? I'd really like to see what the flooding is like locally, but all I can get are pictures from here and there taken by folks at ground level or the rare aerial pictures from a plane.

Seems that with all of the tech we have today, there'd be something available to us to look at.

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There are modis today images. Cloud cover dependent of course but images are taken each day around noon. I remember seeing tornado tracks with it after the April 2011 tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama. I'll post a link later if Google doesn't do the trick for you.

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That is sort of it, but I was thinking more along the lines of something closer to Google Earth that you could zoom down in so that i could see actual flood waters and what not. The MODIS has a limited zoom capability and does not give one the ability to omit clouds.

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Could you be more specific?? The Hubs is leaving Wednesday for a week on houseboat on Lake Ouachita in Arkansas. I've already made him pack his poncho, but want to know if Arkansas is going to hit.

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Could you be more specific?? The Hubs is leaving Wednesday for a week on houseboat on Lake Ouachita in Arkansas. I've already made him pack his poncho, but want to know if Arkansas is going to hit.

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Check out the last post on page 45. There may be a tropical storm this weekend streaming moisture all over.

Thanks. Will do that.


ETA: Oh crap! That doesn't look good for his trip.

A week out models still have a good deal of variation, that and it hasn't actually developed yet, could just as well go to Florida.

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Is there a website that shows real time satellite images that us serfs can access? I'd really like to see what the flooding is like locally, but all I can get are pictures from here and there taken by folks at ground level or the rare aerial pictures from a plane.

Seems that with all of the tech we have today, there'd be something available to us to look at.

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There are modis today images. Cloud cover dependent of course but images are taken each day around noon. I remember seeing tornado tracks with it after the April 2011 tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama. I'll post a link later if Google doesn't do the trick for you.

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That is sort of it, but I was thinking more along the lines of something closer to Google Earth that you could zoom down in so that i could see actual flood waters and what not. The MODIS has a limited zoom capability and does not give one the ability to omit clouds.

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Doesn't Google earth only take images like once every few years?

true, but weather sats take daily if not multiple daily. Would be very nice to have.

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Yeah, one of the fun things about having a farm is being able to pinpoint pretty closely when the photos were taken, depending on the crops in the field or where the equipment is parked. For instance, I had a field swathed for hay. The photo was taken after the swathing, but before baling, so I was able to narrow it down a lot.

Also, you'll notice that the photos at different zoom levels aren't necessarily taken at the same time.

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true, but weather sats take daily if not multiple daily. Would be very nice to have.

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Weather satellites don't have the resolution you want to see flood levels, etc. No need, when you're just tracking large systems.

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For the last few years, they have been updating most regions multiple times a year. Bing Maps also usually has different imagery than Google.

If you use Google Earth, you can see when the imagery was taken and look at historical images. They go back to at least 1990 in Burnet County.

This rain scouring out the guad and frio should eventually help tubing prospects a bit.

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Weather satellites don't take pictures. They collect data which computers process into imagery that is layered on a basemap image.

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Weather satellites don't take pictures. They collect data which computers process into imagery that is layered on a basemap image.

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NERD ALERT!

Back on topic - the flooding isn't over yet. I know the flash flooding in central Texas has subsided for now, and Houston and DFW have gone back to normal, so the news has found its next shiny object to focus on - but the coastal regions of the major rivers are not out of the woods yet.

1462 was opened back up around 2:00pm yesterday, so I took a cruise down it to the Brazos to take a look around. These pictures are, I think anyway, start at 3/4 mile west of the Brazos heading east on 1462. The water ended roughly at the Pilgrim's Cemetery general vicinity on 1462, which is about 1-1/4 miles west of FM 521:

Drainage channel west of the Brazos:






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Random pictures from the basin between the Brazos and Oyster Creek:









Moyle Ranch Flooding:

A little further east of Oyster Creek, near Suncreek Ranch:

These are from further downstream off of FM 655 (Ramsey Prison Road). The good news is that the water is flowing south again - 3 days ago it was flowing north. The river is slowly receding, but we still have a long way to go. I think the Brazos was still over 51' as of yesterday, and the Oyster Creek basin is out of its banks and will continue to be so until the river gets below 50.7', then it will start dropping. But there is a hell of a lot of surface water that needs to drain off, and it is slow going.

I felt like I was driving across the Pascagoula River estuary when I drove this yesterday.

What I meant is that I weather satellites aren't collecting photographic data of the ground surface or of the weather events even. They're collecting other data that is processed by computers to create the image that is overlaid on whatever basemap you choose for your weather app.

For example, take your basic dopler radar on a tower at the TV station. The rain clouds aren't light green, green, yellow, orange, red, and purple... But after the computers get done with it, that's what shows up on our TV's, computers, and phones.

closest thing to "daily" imagery you can get are MODIS and LANDSAT, neither of which are particularly high-resolution. The kind of data that is being asked for would be a massive and expensive undertaking.

What are we looking at?

It looks like something is on top of that car in that one pic...

Steering wheel is on the wrong side. Just like a Brit to design a vehicle that can go nearly anywhere yet be unreliable (:cough: Land Rover).

Just a follow up, just because.....

Some of y'all will remember several pages ago I said that two friends' houses were trashed (one from water one from straight winds/tornado) and FEMA couldn't get involved because the county was not labeled disaster....

Well, Friday the county finally got the distinction. One of my friends called as soon as she found out and FEMA actually did their walk-through/inspection on Saturday. The other had theirs Monday. Now, the wait of 3-4 weeks to see what their decision is.

At least now there is a chance.

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Is there a website that shows real time satellite images that us serfs can access? I'd really like to see what the flooding is like locally, but all I can get are pictures from here and there taken by folks at ground level or the rare aerial pictures from a plane.

Seems that with all of the tech we have today, there'd be something available to us to look at.

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There are modis today images. Cloud cover dependent of course but images are taken each day around noon. I remember seeing tornado tracks with it after the April 2011 tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama. I'll post a link later if Google doesn't do the trick for you.

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That is sort of it, but I was thinking more along the lines of something closer to Google Earth that you could zoom down in so that i could see actual flood waters and what not. The MODIS has a limited zoom capability and does not give one the ability to omit clouds.

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Try this -

https://www.mapbox.com/bites/00113/

It's not .5 meter resolution, and you will get clouds, but most of the images are <15 days old and you can geolocate w/it.

Haven't figured out how to post pics from the new tablet, but check out b a s t a r d i 's twitter for rain estimates from the tropical system coming up from the Yucatan.

https://twitter.com/bigjoe*******i/status/609580253170675712

Crap. So much for fishing in Lake Calc next weekend.

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Yup we are leaving Playa Del Carmen today and it started raining at midnight and literally hasn't stopped