Earth Networks recently posted a blog article reflecting on the 2017 Great American Eclipse. It is an interesting article to read. What’s your thoughts on your experience of the 2017 Great American Eclipse?

CoCoRaHS emailed me a newsletter today concerning their upcoming Field Photo Weekend. The above graphic and the below text is from the email newsletter for those interested in participating in the CoCoraHS Field Photo Weekend.

“Field Photo Weekend” Sept 2-4, 2017 . . . Celebrate the traditional end of summer by taking a few photos this Labor Day weekend!

Here’s your chance to join hundreds of other CoCoRaHS observers to see what our landscapes look like on Labor Day Weekend. If you have participated before, this is a great chance to go back to your favorite spots and see what has changed. All you have to do is:

• Take your camera or smartphone
• Find a landscape in your community (streams, lakes, rivers, reservoirs, a forest, a crop field, a pasture, etc.)
• Take a single photo or a panorama in four different directions (N, E, S, W) from where you are standing. And then take one looking down.

There are four ways to post your photos

• Use the “Field Photo” App on your phone, which can be downloaded from the “Apple Store” and “Google Play Store”. Enter metadata to describe the landscape and add #CoCoRaHSSep17” as a keyword.
• Email your photos with your location to: fieldphotos@southernclimate.org. When uploading your photos please include the words #CoCoRaHSSep17 in the notes field. Remember you don’t have to email your photos this weekend, just take them, but we do encourage you to email them soon afterward.
• Upload photos directly to the (EOMF) Earth Observation and Modeling Facility’s photo archive website: “http://www.eomf.ou.edu/photos”.
• Or post your photos on your phone or online to our new partners at iSeeChange.org, a climate and weather journal that collects stories about change.

Field Photo Weekend is a partnership between CoCoRaHS, the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) and the Earth Observation and Modeling Facility (EOMF) to help ground truth through photos, what is going on with our landscapes throughout the country. It’s not just drought we are looking for either, it could be flooding, fire, or whatever state the landscape is now in. For detailed instructions, click here: INSTRUCTIONS.

As you have seen in past campaigns, Field Photo Weekend added a new partnership last year with ISeeChange, to help tell stories about the photos you’re taking. If you have an interesting observation about the landscape you are photographing ISeeChange would like to hear from you. They take observations and questions from citizens about the changes citizens are seeing in the environment and then write stories about the underlying science. Plus you can send photos and stories anytime. Check it out at ISEECHANGE.ORG

In a few weeks this weekend’s photos will be posted and you’ll be able to see your photos and those taken by other volunteers. Reference the VIEWING PHOTOS.

Remember you don’t have to email your photos this weekend, just take them, but we do encourage you to email them soon afterward. That address again is: fieldphotos@southernclimate.org. When uploading your photos please include the words #CoCoRaHSSep17 in the notes field.

Finally, please view the SHORT ANIMATION about our Field Photo Weekends. It captures all you’ll need to know and we think you will find it very helpful.

Thanks in advance for participating during our final event of the year . . . Thank you very much for your photos!

Earth Networks posted an article about Hurricane Harvey being a Category 4 hurricane tonight, as well as the impacts it will have on Texas. Check it out for more details.

Here’s the latest on Hurricane Harvey in an article from Earth Networks. I’m also tracking Hurricane Harvey on my Twitter and will also post updates here on WeatherQuack.com later on.

Earth Networks released two articles recently, one on Hurricane Harvey and another on the recent mudslide in Sierra Leone. Both are excellent articles, and I encourage you to check them out when you have a free moment.

My good friend and KATV7 Meteorologist Todd Yakoubian in Central Arkansas recently posted a blog post and video concerning the upcoming solar eclipse. It’s an excellent video to watch, especially for those living in Arkansas wishing to enjoy the solar eclipse. The Arkansas Weather Blog is also an excellent blog to follow for those interested in the Natural State’s one-of-a-kind weather.