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Wednesday, 13th July 2005 by Alex Turnbull
Check out this cool image of Montréal, where you can see 3 seasons in one shot!
Thanks to Waldo for this one.
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I paged down from this point, following the ‘snow line’ and found an interesting mark. See View Placemark / Google Earth.
I wasn’t sure what it was at first, but in the end, I think it is a page registration mark.
That is really cool! Thanks!
Peter:
There appears to be a lens flare, along with a tiny rainbow – perhaps some manner of flying wing aircraft?
I don’t think we are seeing 3 seasons. There are definitely two seasons, but the area to the right of the frame looks like it has been the victim of a brush fire. That’s not Fall; it’s charcoal…
Unless the fire jumped across the water, it’s probably fall
cool
You know what they say about the wather, wait five minutes and it’ll change… No wonder they can’t get the forecasts right!
Hi, it is 3 seasons, i live in montreal and i never heard of a forest fire, also in the spring and fall, there is no snow but trees have no leaves so they appear plain brown from above. Also i walked to that specific spot yesterday and i was cold on one side and hot on the other… haha just kidding!
Peter, It could well be a hang glider, or similar. Perhaps one of those powered hang-gliders, a microlight I think they are called
Not a mark, or a glider. These occur often and are always associated with ‘clipping’ of the image data – in this case, an extreme bright spot caused by reflection from a building (hence the lens flare). Many examples in cities all over. See this similar example in London / Google Earth.
Switching on the DG Coverage Overlays for 2002 in GoogleEarth, the dates of the different images are shown:
Upper Left: 2002-09-25 (i.e. summer) Upper Right: 2002-04-21 (i.e. spring) Lower Left: 2002-03-11 (i.e. technically still winter)
Cheers Palmin
Here’s another multiseasonal effect near Naples, Italy: View Placemark / Google Earth
A two season landscape in France, near Lyon : View Placemark / Google Earth
sadly, this one isn’t visible anymore