06.12.10
Posted in General News at 12:48 pm by Rebekah
One of the features of the remodeled website will be to view photos in more of a photo gallery format as is common on many other websites.
I have been looking at many different options for this, and I found a nice little application that allows me to display photos in this manner. The html output allows me to edit the photo gallery to suit my needs, so I may not be done with this yet. I would have liked to find an option that is more dynamic, and gives that sort-of animated scrolling appearance to the thumbnails, but until I find a php script to do that for me (or learn enough php to do it on my own), this is what I’ve got.
Please visit this sample site (3 photos from 23 Feb 2007), and let me know what you think! The only link back to my site is one on the index page that goes to the chase log.
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
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PS – Another change (which I’ve already implemented) is no more “this day in history” on the front page…it’s too time-consuming to maintain in its present state, and if I find a good way to automate it, it may return – but for now, I’m sad to say it’s gone…
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06.06.10
Posted in General News at 8:46 pm by Rebekah
I apologize for the lack up updates on both my website and blog for the last couple of weeks…some friends of mine from Australia and England came over to do some chasing recently, and I spent a week running around the Plains with them, having an amazing time.
I didn’t have much computer access while I was gone, so I’m only just now starting to edit photos, edit videos, and compile chase logs. This will probably take me some time, as I’m also working on a few other projects and am starting my PhD research.
Here’s a summary of what’s coming, hopefully complete within the next 2 to 3 weeks:
*May 19 chase log/photos – supercells in central Oklahoma (chase log is up, but I didn’t get around to photos yet)
*May 29 chase log/photos – multicells in southwest Nebraska
*May 30 chase log/photos – supercells/squall line in south central Kansas into north central Oklahoma
*May 31 chase log/photos/video – tornado in southeast Colorado
*June 1 chase log/photos – supercell/squall line in south central/southeast Nebraska
I am also still plodding along on Dreamweaver; one of the improved features of my new website will be the ability to hopefully scroll through large versions of chase photos, rather than having to click on thumbnails to go to individual photos, then go back to look at another one.
I posted a new photo of the week on my website this evening, but I’ll post again here, as it’s one of my favorites–this is of the EF2 tornado near Campo, Colorado. This will be included in the chase photos of May 31, once I get those up…
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05.26.10
Posted in General News, Weather News at 2:45 pm by Rebekah
The Big 12 baseball tournament starts tonight in Oklahoma City.
OU, at second in the Big 12, will be taking on number seven Kansas tonight at 7:30pm. There are two pools in the tournament, each with four teams. After each team plays every team in their pool, the two teams with the best records in their pools will advance to the Big 12 Championship game on Sunday. I have yet to go to a college baseball game, but wish I would have taken the opportunity to go to a few games this spring, especially as three of the students that I taught last fall are on the baseball team (Garrett Buechele, Zach Neal, and Erik Ross).
Third baseman Garrett Buechele is doing very well this year, batting .387. Garrett’s father, Steve Buechele, played major league baseball for the Rangers, Pirates, and Cubs. Right-handed pitcher Zach Neal is also doing very well, with 8 wins and only 2 losses, and an ERA of 4.15. Zach will be starting OU’s second game of the tournament.
Some friends and I plan on going to tonight’s game at Bricktown Ballpark (home of the Oklahoma Redhawks).
BOOMER SOONER!!!!!
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In other news, I finally bought Adobe Dreamweaver (it’s one of the best and least expensive [with a student discount] web design programs out there). I have been using MS Publisher for my website so far, but it certainly was not designed for website development. I am excited to be able to play around with Dreamweaver now, and to make the Green Sky Chaser site both nicer for viewers and easier for me to work on.
It may take me a while to figure out how to use the program, but within the next month I may be giving the site a bit of a facelift (perhaps for the one-year anniversary, coming up in late June?).
As I will be focusing my web development time on this, I may not get around to posting the May 19 chase log and photos as soon as I had hoped. I may, however, try to take some time to get that done by or over the weekend.
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In the meantime, here’s a look at our nice, summer-like Oklahoma weather lately (courtesy of the NWS Norman):
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05.18.10
Posted in General News, Weather News at 8:52 am by Rebekah
Today is the 30th anniversary of Mount St Helens’ catastrophic eruption.
On May 18, 1980, the Washington State volcano shot ash 12 miles up into the atmosphere (see satellite image from GOES-3, below, taken at 8:45 am PDT, courtesy of Wikipedia). In about two weeks, the ash had circled the globe.
For more information on Mt St Helens’ eruption, see the Wikipedia article and the Mt St Helens website. The Mt St Helens volcano cam may be showing a commemoration event today.
Volcanoes can affect weather and climate; in some cases, volcanic eruptions have been associated with cooler temperatures (sulfuric acid can block some sunlight from reaching the Earth). It will be interesting to see if the recent eruptions of the Icelandic volcano Eyjallajökull have any effect on European temperatures in the near future.
Speaking of the Icelandic volcano, continued eruptions and northwest winds have prompted more flight cancellations in Europe recently. However, it appears that the upper-level winds are changing, and Europe should be okay for a little while again…
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05.15.10
Posted in General News at 9:19 pm by Rebekah
Chase #6 is up on my website–go to the chasing page to see my full chase log and photos from May 12.
The next chase may be sooner than expected…a day or two in this coming week may prove chase-worthy. In the meantime, it looks like we’ll at least be getting plenty of showers and thunderstorms over the next several days!
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