August 2017

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Nature

(Summer 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere):

• Photo of Eupatorium cannabinum,

  Deutsch: Gewohnlicher Wasserdost

  
  (weitere Fotos von einem Spaziergang durch die Natur an diesem Tag sind in
  - Category:Photographs taken on 2017-08-09)
• The full moon,
  lunar eclipse of 2017 August 7,
  behind mountains of Schwyzer Alpen (Rossstock)

• Head of a seagull in Kent
  (Larus argentatus, Silbermowe)
• Buckwheat field in Austria
  (Buchweizenfeld in Osterreich)

(- Photos of 21 August 2017)

Politics and elections

• March held on 20 August 2017 in support of jailed pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong

Society and community

• Wikimania 2017 in Montreal,
  Group Photo (Closing Ceremony)
  

  Deutsch: Gruppenbild auf der Wikimania

  .
• 2017 holiday of Vladimir Putin in the Nature of Tuva (Russia)

Sports:

• etape 1 du Tour d'Espagne 2017. 19 aout de 2017. (|photo| Nimes, France)
• stage 2, arrival in Sete

Buildings - technics - traffic - science

• restored hill windmill in Albufeira
• Modern wind turbines in Fukushima prefecture (Nunobiki Wind Farm, Japan) and sunflowers.
• train on Albula line (Albulabahn), Solis Viaduct, Schin gorge (Schinschlucht) and bridges (aerial video, Switzerland)
• Cycling in Mexico City
  (Parque Espana - Ciudad de Mexico)

See also: - Category:Solar eclipse of 2017 August 21:

• animation of the shadow with the tiny dot of totality in the middle on map of North America

  Deutsch: Sonnenfinsternis mit Sichtbarkeit uberwiegend in Nordamerika
• Corona of the darkened sun seen at Tennessee Technological University soon after noon
• Sequence of Solar Total Eclipse starting 9:06am, ending at 10:21am
• watching the sun (photo) ...
• ... view
  through a telescope in New York
• Time-lapse-video,
  
  taken in Greenville, South Carolina, length 30 s
• the dark shaddow of the moon as seen from space
  (International Space Station),
  taken by team of ISS Expedition 52
• Composite image with ISS transit
  
  
  and |video of ISS transit|, ISS in shaddow seen from Earth (Wyoming)
• Tree leaves projecting sunny crescent shadows
  (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
• ... crescents of the partial eclipse seen in Florida

• Photographing in Washington (state)
• projection
  of partial eclipse on street ...
• with projected sun crescents through the holes of a kitchen utensil
• using a colander
• fotografia, ciudad de Chihuahua, Mexico
• Partial eclipse at sunset in Europe, taken from Zarautz, Basque Country (Spain),
  
  evening of 21 August 2017

Disasters and Catastrophes

Floods in North India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh (en-Wikipedia article):

• 3 days after
  the attack with a van in Barcelona
• Tropical cyclone,
  Hurricane Harvey
  (on 2017-08-25)
• The huge cyclone in 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
  shortly before landfall in Texas (- video from ISS)
• 2 people of Texas National Guard in the subtropical 'summer cycloon rain'
  (not an Indian monsoon rain!)
• water goes up on 2017-08-26 ...
• heavily flooded area in Houston
• flooded area on August 27
• aerial search and rescue with helicopter
  in Rockport, Holiday Beach, and Port Aransas area near the coast
• rising level of water in Houston - August 27
• Harvey after landfall (center=red)
  with heavy rainfall in parts of Texas and the Mississippi River Delta of Louisiana
  (red and yellow colour in the right of map)
• Rainfall potential of subtropical storm Harvey from 27 August to 1 September

weather

- Daily NCEP weather maps for August 2017 (for USA)

• Cumulonimbus cloud, August 2017 in Kent

• 2017-08-01 Surface Weather, NOAA.
• 2017-07-01 24-hr Precipitation, NOAA.
• 2017-08-01 500-Millibar Height Contour Map, NOAA.
• 2017-08-26 Surface Weather Map, with cyclone Harvey in Texas.

More August 2017 Photos and other media are in the larger Wikimedia Commons category "August 2017".

• August 2017