Fog Bank for Dec. 19, 2011

Fog Bank for Dec. 19, 2011
Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, and you can find me on Twitter, @Skydaver, and Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver


A youtube video of the story of CoCoRahs - was posted on the Facebook page of NWS, Great Falls, MT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHmz5IyjV80&feature=player_detailpage

NASA has put GOES-15 into service as GOES West, taking GOES-11 out of service after 12 years in orbit.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GOES-P/news/goes-15-active.html

On Earth Science Picture of the Day, Friday Dec. 16, a waterspout & rainbow in the same picture
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/12/waterspout-and-rainbow-odd-couple.html

Justin Kenney, NOAA director of communications (@JustinNOAA) , posted NOAA's recap of 2011
http://www.noaa.gov/extreme2011/index.html


Capital Weather Gang reminisces about Snowpocalypse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/two-years-ago-washington-dc-crippled-by-snowpocalypse/2011/12/19/gIQAFwyV4O_blog.html

I'll close with a special shout out to my weathergeek buddy, Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006.  This one isn't weather related, and isn't even a link.
Army 21 - Navy 27
Navy, unbeaten by Army in the last 10 games, and leads the series, 56-49-7

Skydaver, out!



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Fog Bank, Dec. 12, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, and you can find on Twitter, @skydaver, and on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

I'm fighting a cold this week, so I hope the audio isn't too bad

The Astronomy Picture of the Day has a picture of the last partial solar eclipse, from Nov. 25
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111202.html

CoCoRaHS, has a video from the NWS on how to measure snow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzWFhbO_NNg

From NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Services, their Total Precipitable Water model
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/bTPW/TPW_Animation.html?product=CONUS_TPW

From Dr. Gray & Dr. Klotzbach, at Colorado State, a paper titled 'Qualitative Discussion of Atlantic Basin Seasonal Hurricane Activity for 2011'
http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/forecasts/2011/dec2011/dec2011.pdf

Jim Loznicka, jimwxgator on Twitter, of WJHG in Panama City, FL, posted this to Twitter on Dec. 7.
Mystery cloud formation of the day.  Calling all mets to help decipher what caused this huge cloud hole near Bermuda!  http://twitpic.com/7pvgjt
Brad Panovich posted another look at the same cloud
http://wxbrad.com/?p=2446

Thanks for listening, Skydaver, out!

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Fog Bank, Dec. 5, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, Welcome to the Fog Bank, Picks of the week responding to the Kevin Selle challenge.

I'm Dave Phillips.  I'm on Twitter, http://www.twitter.com/skydaver, and Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

My first pick is from Chuck Prevatte, with link about things being discovered in lakes that have evaporated in the Southwest drought
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/20/as-drought-continues-depleted-texas-lakes-expose-ghost-towns-graves/

Brad Panovich blogged about plans for a backyard snowmaker
http://wxbrad.com/?p=2399

Bill McMillan, @wxmanbill, and the staff of IndyWx.com, have a weather blog for central Indiana, and this pick is called "The southeast ridge, a love hate relationship"
http://www.indywx.com/2011/12/01/the-southeast-ridge-a-love-hate-relationship/

I never get tired of Aurora pictures, so my fourth pick is two of them, one from SpaceWeather.com, and one from the Astronomy picture of the Day
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2011
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111205.html



I'll close with a neat picture on Twitter from Stu Ostro, of the Pineapple Express, a moisture plume running from hawaii to Alaska
pic.twitter.com/NnKR21W3

Wait, there's a bonus pick:
There will be a total eclipse of the moon on December 10, visible to most of the earth.  If I'm reading the chart correctly, only South America, the far eastern portion of the Caribbean  and part of Africa will not be able to see the eclipse.
The pick is a discussion on the NASA eclipse website, from the Goddard Space Flight Center
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2011.html#LE2011Dec10T

If anyone is counting (Kevin Selle), that is seven picks of the week.

Skydaver, out!

The Audio

Fog Bank, Nov. 21, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, I'm on Twitter, @skydaver, and Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver

My first pick is from the US Geological Service, a set of Google Earth files for  stream data, refreshed every hour.
http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/kml.html

Next, WB listener Dan Goff, @wxdan, gets a mention in a Richmond VA Times Dispatch article about the Virginia Tech Meteorology major
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/nov/11/meteorology-new-major-being-offered-virginia-tech-ar-1447913/

My third pick is from NASA Jet Propulsion Labs, SciJinks, a website with lots of educational links
http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov//

Fourth, NOAA Climate Services has a discussion of the flooding in the Missouri river valley earlier this spring
http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2011/missouri-river-flood-drama-likely-took-direction-from-la-nina

Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006, sent in a link from Accuweather about new storm hunter aircraft
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/57923/fighter-jet-being-transformed.asp
I'm not going to spoil it.

I'll be traveling all week, and won't have a chance to record a Fogbank in time for the show.  I may have one posted on next Tuesday.

Thanks for listening, Skydaver Out!

The Audio

Fog Bank, November 14, 2011

Apologies for being so late with this week's Fogbank.
You can find me on Twitter, @skydaver, or on Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver.

Help me keep Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB Elliott.  Send me interesting weather stuff, and I'll put it into the Fog Bank (or send it to JB)


First up,  an animated gif from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
 showing the development of a rare tropical cyclone in the Mediterranean Sea
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/111006-08_met9_ir_anim.gif
This storm beat the heck out of the Volvo Ocean 70s trying to get to the Atlantic from Alicente, Spain.  One boat broke open its bow, another broke its mast.
The Twitter handle for CIMSS @CIMSS_Satellite

Brad Panovich posted his winter outlook for the Carolinas in his blog.
http://wxbrad.com/?p=2081

The NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory (I think I'd been calling it Earth Visualization) has this picture of the Bering Straight Storm
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=885&MediaTypeID=1

Some pictures of the rain gauge that I setup to participate in COCORAHS
http://picasaweb.google.com/skydaver/cocorahs

Along with the rain gauge,  WeatherYourWay (suppliers of the COCORAHS gauge) sent some nice posters along with the gauge
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/brochures/cloudchart.pdf
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/posters/clouds/NOAA-NASA-CloudChart.pdf

The Audio

Fog Bank, November 7, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, and you can find me on Twitter, @skydaver, and on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

Leading off tonight, a time lapse video from a Weather Channel watcher, of his backyard during the Oct 29th storm.
http://iwitness.weather.com/_Snow-Storm-October-29-30/video/1654200/148597.html?as=148597

The second pick is by Dr. Greg Forbes, from the Weather Channel, with an article on the 'Second Season' for tornadoes.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/second-season-tornadoes_2011-10-26

The third pick is from The Capital Weather Gang with their outlook for this winter in DC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/washington-dc-winter-weather-forecast-2011-2012/2011/11/02/gIQAHXChiM_blog.html

Fourth, a website called Aurora Max. They have a live broadcast of the Aurora, from Yellowknife, North West Territories, Canada
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/auroramax/default.asp

Finally, Ben Holcomb has a youtube video of a shelf cloud at Grand Haven, Michigan, 7/18/2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOVwlfrKN2g

Thanks for listening,  Skydaver out!

The Audio

Fog Bank, Oct 31, 2011

I remembered to send this to the Weatherbrains in time for the show this week!




Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, and you can follow on Twitter, @skydaver, or on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

My first pick is from Phil Plait, of the Bad Astronomer blog.  He had a really interesting cloud video I think you'll enjoy.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/25/amazing-video-of-a-bizarre-twisting-dancing-cloud/

Next, Mike Cox, a WeatherBrains listener, and meteorologist for WHCB & WPWT radio in Bristol, Tennessee, sent in his blog postings about the NWA meeting
http://tricitieswx.wordpress.com/category/nwa-2011/

From the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory, a great picture of Hurricane Rina.
Be sure to click on the high resolution version, too
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=869&MediaTypeID=1

My fourth pick is a web page from Dr. Ryan Maue, on global tropical cyclone activity
http://policlimate.com/tropical/index.html

Finally, with snowfall coming, it's time for NOAA's Snow Climatology website
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ussc/USSCAppController?action=map

Thanks for listening,
Skydaver, out!

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Fogbank for October 24, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains fans, this is the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC.  You can follow me on twitter, @Skydaver, or on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

First up, a cloud picture from the Earth Science Picture of the Day.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/10/pileus-cloud-above-roswell-georgia.html

My second pick is from the Capital Weather Gang, with pictures & video of  the Lubbock Texas haboob of Oct. 17
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/dust-storm-haboob-blasts-lubbock-texas-video/2011/10/18/gIQAY37NuL_blog.html

Third, I have the Hurricane Irene seminar, presented at NWC, Norman, OK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJyiI5a_2yQ&feature=uploademail

The fourth pick is from Jesse Ferrell, with some great cloud pictures taken in Central PA.  Jesse is with Accuweather, and this album is one of his Google+ photo albums.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107039790829132730218/albums/5665234565752320081

The fifth pick is another cloud picture, from the Mt. Washington Road Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150329887240718&set=a.10150328822950718.346282.76723350717&type=3&theater


The Audio

Fogbank, October 17, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied
picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC.   You can follow me on Twitter, @Skydaver, and on Google+, Skydaver





First up, the Mt Everest web cam
http://www.evk2cnr.org/WebCams/PyramidOne/everest-webcam.html


Next, Chuck Prevatte sent a link from the Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, PA (where I went to college) on making your own weather station
http://www.fi.edu/weather/todo/todo.html


From Twitter, a beautiful picture that Nate Johnson (@nsj) & Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) identified as either mountain wave or gravity wave clouds
pic.twitter.com/nm7S1t7r
The picture is from @sunsurfin


A blog entry from Matt Daniel, about the tornado in Virginia, October 13, 2011
http://earthsky.org/earth/tornado-crosses-interstate-95-in-virginia


Finally, the Facebook page for the NWS Storm Prediction Center
https://www.facebook.com/US.NOAA.StormPredictionCenter

The Audio

Fogbank, October 10, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied
picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC.   You can follow me on Twitter, @Skydaver, and on Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver


Pick number one is a short collection of some great weather pictures.  I found these at inspirefirst.com
A short collection of some awesome weather pictures
http://www.inspirefirst.com/2011/10/03/powerful-weather-conditions/

The second pic comes from the Big Picture.  They have a collection of National Geographic pictures of the year, and many of them are cloud formations and other weather phenomena.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html

My third pick is two websites showing an interactive map of lightning strikes.  The first is for Europe, and the second is for the US
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php
http://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/explorer.html

The fourth pick is from Weatherbrains listener Chuck Prevatte, chuck006 on Twitter.
Chuck sent in a weather page for Joseph, Oregon.
http://www.josephoregonweather.com/

Finally, from the Capital Weather Gang, a post about stacked lightning photos.  These are composite photos of multiple lightning strikes at a single location.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/stacking-lightning-bolts-over-washington/2011/10/06/gIQAln7nSL_blog.html#pagebreak

Thanks for listening,
Skydaver, out!

Fogbank, October 4, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied
picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC.

I'm on Twitter at skydaver, and on Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver

Chuck Prevatte, Chuck006 on twitter, was busy this week. He sent me the first three of this weeks picks

First, it's not to early to get ready for winter. Here's a link on how to do snow making at home
http://www.toddgross.com/todd_gross_new_england_we/2010/12/snowmaking-at-home.html

From Irish Weather News  a story about a tornado in South Africa last week
http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/atmosphere/storm/tornado-kills-boy-9-destroys-over-1000-homes-in-ficksburg-south-africa/40432.html

Third, the Cooperative Institute for Precipitation Systems has their Cold-Season Analog Guidance
http://www.eas.slu.edu/CIPS/ANALOG/COLD/analog.php

Next up, Hurricane Opehelia became the season's third major hurricane, and Earth Observatory has a nice picture
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=52344

Finally, along with two tropical systems, we have snow in the mountains of North Carolina.
Brad Panovich's @wxbrad, blog on the event.
http://wxbrad.com/?p=1673

But wait, there's more.  A bonus pick, not weather related, for the NC soda, Cheerwine.  I'm hopeful that an NWA attendee will be bringing some to Alabama for JB to try out.
www.cheerwine.com

Thanks for listening
Skydaver, out!

Fogbank Audio

Fogbank, September 26, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied
picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC, skydaver on twitter. You can find me on Google+ at gplus.to/Skydaver.
If you have an interesting weather link, send it to me, and I'll put it into the Fogbank.

You can find all my picks, and a link for this audio, at my blog,
skydaver.blogspot.com

My first pick is a blog by an aspiring TV meteorologist.  It's called Daring to Dream, and it is documenting one man's journey to becoming a famous weatherman
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/daring-to-dream-big-i-want-to-be-a-famous-weatherman/2011/08/09/gIQAJ9Oi6I_blog.html

My second pick is another one from the Capital Weather Gang, Greg Postel writes about the remainder of the Atlantic Hurricane Season
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/is-the-atlantic-hurricane-season-winding-down/2011/09/14/gIQAU2i5RK_blog.html

My third pick is from NOAA News, a story covering the final assessment of the Joplin tornado
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110920_joplin.html

My last pick is Chasing The Lights, a blog about photography of the Aurora.  Prepare to be stunned with some beautiful pictures.
http://arildheitmann.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/chasing-the-lights/

Finally, from the Wall Street Journal, a piece about hurricane names, and an interactive graphic with every named storm since 1950
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903703604576584503299280390.html?mod=e2tw#articleTabs%3Dinteractive

Thanks for listening
Skydaver, out!



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Fogbank, Sept. 19, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied

picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC, skydaver on twitter. Send

me your picks for the Fogbank.

You can find all my picks, and a link for this audio, at my blog,

skydaver.blogspot.com

Since today's Fogbank is being recorded on International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I'll ask what part of a hurricane is a pirate's favorite?

Eye, Matey!

My first pick is a set of weather games & quizzes for kids

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/k4/weather/Whandson2.html

Next up, a blogpost from the Capital Weather Gang, an alternative to the Weather Channel

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/a-new-alternative-to-the-weather-channel---weather-nation-tv-interview-with-ceo-paul-douglas/2011/08/18/gIQAkvJcNJ_blog.html

My third pick is from Phil Plait, writer of the Bad Astronomy blog at Discover, has a post about a photo taken from the ISS of the Aurora Australis

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/15/the-hunter-the-station-and-the-southern-lights/

Fourth, from WAAY-TV in Huntsville, AL, a story about WeatherFest at UAH.

http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/story/Weather-Enthusiasts-Gather-at-UA-Huntsville-for/aZXVcftE60-2axGw1-xRQA.cspx

I'll close with a story from NOAA Climate Services on heavy rainfall & flooding in the Northeast

http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/image/2011/record-rains-floods-in-the-northeast

Thanks for listening

Skydaver, out!

Fogbank Audio

Fogbank for Sept. 12, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied
picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC, skydaver on twitter. Send
me your picks for the Fogbank.

You can find all my picks, and a link for this audio, at my blog,
skydaver.blogspot.com

My first pick is an image of Hurricane Katia  from NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=52032

Next up, the NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service
Observed precipitation totals interactive webpage.
http://water.weather.gov/precip/

The third pick is a video about Hurricane Hunters flying into Nate.  A
meteorologist from WKRG flew along with them for this trip.
http://www2.wkrg.com/weather/2011/sep/10/hurricane-hunters-fly-nate-ar-2390180/

Fourth up, a study from the Univ of Miami School of Marine &
Atmospheric science correlates El Nino, La Nina & neutral conditions
with hurricane landfall probabilities.  The article appears in the
American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/uomr-u6y090911.php

I'll close out with a article from Scientific American on forensic meteorology
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=csi-mother-nature--forens

Thanks for listening; Skydaver, out!

The Audio

Fogbank for September 5, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC, skydaver on twitter. Send me your picks for the Fogbank.

You can find all my picks, and a link for this audio, at my blog, skydaver.blogspot.com


We will start off this week with a Hurricane Irene Mashup on YouTube
Someone has too much time on their hands … but it's darn funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCCrN1w_YTs

My second pick is a comic discussing the weather
http://www.nicky510.com/comic/singing-in-the-rain/
http://www.nicky510.com/comic/eeny-meeny/

Third, I've got Clouds, as photographed from 25000 feet. The airplane has its door open, so the view is spectacular.
 I've got the link from both petapixel.com, and the photographer's site.
http://www.petapixel.com/2011/08/31/clouds-photographed-through-an-open-plane-door-4-miles-up/
http://www.nehmzow.de/reportagefeatures/view/?modus=bigimg&kat=12&foto=1&page=1

A NY Times blog, saying that NHC forecasters did their job during Hurricane Irene
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/federal-hurricane-forecasters-did-their-job/?src=tp

James Payton, at Univ. of Alabama Hunstville, has a blog posting responding to the story "do we need the NWS".  His answer, YES!
http://uahweather.blogspot.com/2011/08/do-we-really-need-national-weather.html

Thanks for listening
Skydaver, Out!

Special Bonus this week.  JB wasn't on the show, so here's the link I sent for him.  From the Wall Street Journal, the Waffle House Index of Storm Damage Assessment:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904716604576542460736605364.html?mod=e2gp

Fogbank Audio

Fogbank for August 29, 2011

Tonight's Fogbank is wall to wall hurricane, in honor of Hurricane Irene, which passed up the East Coast over the weekend of August 27

The National Hurricane Center has an interactive KML (google maps) link. I like it a lot, as it shows the error cone & consensus track, but wish it had time stamps for predicted position.  Go to the NHC Main Page, click on one of the active systems, then look for Warning Cone (Interactive)

NHC also has an interactive map with the forecasting breakpoints, or the geographic locations for the various watches & warnings.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/breakpoints.shtml?gm

My third pick is an article on the predictability and uncertainty in hurricane forecasting
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/08/unpredictable_hurricane_paths.html

From the US editor for London's Daily Telegraph, I have, "Perfect Storm of Hype: Politicians, the media, and the Hurricane Irene apocalypse that never was
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100102355/perfect-storm-of-hype-politicians-the-media-and-the-hurricane-irene-apocalypse-that-never-was/
I especially liked the youtube clip of one reporter in Ocean City, Maryland.


Some of the draft NHC discussion bulletins that never got released
http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/08/29/for-the-small-handful-of-hurricane-geeks-out-there/

2005 Hurricane Epsilon, the hurricane that wouldn't die. This page is a listing of all of the NHC releases for that storm.  From the previous link, I'm guessing that some of those releases had notes of frustration in them.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/EPSILON.shtml?

Fogbank audio

Fogbank for August 22, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC, skydaver on twitter. Send me your picks for the Fogbank.

You can find all my picks, and a link for this audio, at my blog, skydaver.blogspot.com

My first pick is from Universe Today, a photo of a solar pillar
http://www.universetoday.com/88234/astrophoto-solar-pillar-by-rick-stankiewicz/

Second, the COMET program at MetEd has another new module in the Volcanic Ash series
 "Impacts to Aviation, Climate, Maritime Operations and Society".
You do have to create a login at MetEd, but that's free.
http://www.meted.ucar.edu/volcanic_ash/impacts

Third, a New York Times article on Forensic Meteorology
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/nyregion/forensic-meteorologists-provide-expert-testimony.html?_r=2

Finally, two articles on the Indiana State Fair stage collapse
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/August-2011/The-Indiana-State-Fair-Stage-Collapse-Why-Regulations-and-Meteorology-Matter/
http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-meteorologist-author-says-indiana-state-fair-stage-collapse-was-a-needless-tragedy-20110816,0,3336799.column

Thanks for listening,
Skydaver out!

The audio for this Fogbank

p.s. I don't sneak picks to JB, I email them, and include the Weatherbrains on the email.
p.p.s I think this will take you to my Google+ page

Fogbank for August 15, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC, skydaver on twitter. Send me your picks for the Fogbank.


My first pick is a weather quiz from Davis, the weather instrument people, sent by Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006
http://www.davisnet.com/weather/cool/take_quiz.asp

The second pick is a set of NEXRAD radar grabs of the Indiana storm that blew down the stage at the Indiana State Fair. They were sent to Brad Panovich, who posted them on his google plus page.
https://plus.google.com/photos/115333506137843021021/albums/5640758723034711937

The third pick is a Weather.com story on the stage collapse, and how the story came out via social media
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/indiana-stage-fair-stage-collapse_2011-08-13

My fourth pick is the Rolex Fastnet Race Weather Report - This race is a biennial race of 608 miles from The Isle of Wight to Fastnet Rock, Ireland & back to Plymouth England.
I have a youtube video of the forecast for this year's running of the race.  Several boats in the Volvo Ocean 70 class participated in the race this year, as practice for the Volvo Ocean Race starting this November. The Volvo Ocean Race goes around the world, in some of the fastest monohull sailboats ever made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kTO3vNCsX8

Finally, I have  Tropical Atlantic Overlays for Google Earth. Thanks to Dan Goff for sending this pick in.
http://tropicalatlantic.com/satellite/#taoverlays



Fogbank Audio

August 8 Fogbank

First up.
Do we need the NWS? A blog post from Cliff Mass
Do We Need the NWS

Justin Kinney, the Director of Communications and External Affairs at NOAA, is on Twitter
@JustinNOAA
I haven't notice a lot of activity from him, yet.

Jonas Gray, a WeatherBrains listener from Alabama, has started his own weather blog
http://wxgeek01.blogspot.com/
Let's give him some visits, and encourage him to keep it up. Jonas is a 5th grader, and hopes to be a storm chaser.

I'll close out with two picks from a couple of widely separated NWS locations.
I've got the Facebook page from
NWS Caribou Maine

and the official page from West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/

Here's the recording for this Fogbank

August 1 Fog Bank

Looking for some cool weather? Here's the New Zealand Meteorological Service

Satellite photos from Earth Observatory of heavy snowfall in Chile

An article about a Prey & Predator Model of Clouds, from the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Rehovot, Israel

The NHC is proposing a minor change to the Saffir-Simpson scale. Conversion of speeds from knots to miles per hour can make a hurricane that is a Category 4 in knots be a category 3 in miles per hour.  This also happens near the 4/5 boundary.  The proposed change will make it so that a hurricane will be in the proper category regardless of the expression of speed.
Proposed Saffir-Simpson scale change

Chuck Prevatte sends Dr. Strangeweather

Special Heat Advisory

July 25 Fog Bank

Hello everyone and welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping WeatherBrains fog horn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, skydaver on Twitter.  You can find all of my picks on my Fog Bank blog

Last week I tried a music into to the Fogbank; that sounded a lot better in the podcast than it did live, which I suspect was thanks to some post production work by James. I don't think it added anything, so I won't be trying that for a while.  Onto the picks.

From Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006, weathermole. There isn't much information on the site about what it is, or who is making it, but it seems to put weather service grids onto a Google maps display.

NASA is often good for a great pick, this week I've got an Earth Observatory picture of dust plumes over the Red Sea
Red Sea satellite picture

Capital Weather Gang on the heat of mid July
Capital Weather Gang Mid July heat and humidity

@IanMSchwarz posted a viewer picture of lightning in Albequeque from July 24
Ka-ZAP!

I'll close out with a youtube music video, called "Rain", by Steve "Smooth Thunder" Cole
Rain

Skydaver out.

July 18 Fog Bank

Hello Weather Brains listeners, and welcome to the Fog Bank

I apologize for the technical glitches at the start of the last few Fog Bank recordings; they were entirely my fault. In computer terms, we had a PEBKAC, which I'll explain on the blog. (It means Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)

Let's start out with something not directly weather related. James has talked about Google+, and how it might change things. This pick is a user written user manual on Google+
http://wparena.com/inspiration/120-people-wrote-a-help-manual-about-google/

My second pick is Derecho facts, from the NWS SPC
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/derechofacts.htm

Third, an article on Evapotranspiration, from The Weather Channel
I thought NC was humid, but I can't remember seeing dewpoints in the 80s
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/evapotranspiration-corn-belt-humidity_2011-07-13

My fourth pick is the Warning Siren FAQ from NWS, Quad Cities IA/IL, sent via Twitter by @newton21989
Quad Cities is the term for Davenport and Bettendorf (in Iowa) and Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline (in Illinois)
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dvn/?n=sirenfaq

Finally, a link to Naval Research Laboratory Monterey Marine Meteorology Division
Shows current invests and tropical systems.  It seems to be a realtime system, so depending upon when you look at it, there may not be much of interest. I first looked at it on Sunday, July 17, when Tropical Storm Bret was just  the Atlantic Invest 98L .
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/TC.html

Send me your picks to put into the Fogbank, @Skydaver on Twitter

(I'll also figure out how to put in clickable links, it doesn't look difficult at all, but it's not going to get done tonight)

July 11 Fog Bank

My first pick is the Facebook for the NWS Alaska
https://www.facebook.com/US.NationalWeatherService.Alaska.gov

Next, a write up by Weather Decision Tech on Dual Polarization Radar
http://www.wdtinc.com/posts/2011/7/6/what_is_dual_polarization_radar

My third pick is Dick DeBartolo & Leo Laporte discussing weather radios in the early parts of the Weekly Daily GizWiz, episode 1319
I think you'll like their discussion of Specific Area Message Encoding
http://twit.tv/dgw1319

Fourth, an article about the Joplin Tornado and its 300 yard eye
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/joplin-tornado-eye-1718/
Got that from @athensgaweather, Matt Daniel

Finally, Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006 comes through again
http://www.raceweather.net/

July 5 Fog Bank

Hello Weather Brains listeners, and welcome to the FogBank, listener supplied picks of the week, rising to the Kevin Selle challenge.
I'm Dave Phillips, and you can send me your picks via twitter, @Skydaver

Weather Decision Tech posted a short write up on heat lightning that I think you'll enjoy, at google's link shortener
http://goo.gl/LiRms
http://www.wdtinc.com/posts/2011/6/24/what_is_heat_lightning

From Mary Shafer, @StormDiaries, two pictures from her storm chasing. These are both on yfrog.com,
A boiling storm approaching over the Kansas prairie. http://yfrog.com/kk965dj
Post-storm mammatus clouds on the back end of a whopper in Kansas last week. http://yfrog.com/h4eivotj

Greg Nordstrom mentioned in his blog, hurricanechaser.net, a blog by his classmate Justin Jackson, who is at the NWS in Amarillo, TX
Justin's blog is http://msustormchaser.blogspot.com/

Jeff Wilcox has his blog at http://iowawx.com/
Jeff is usually listening live to WB, so a shout out to him.

I'll close this week with a Record Event Report from Las Vegas, NV
1645 PDT Jun 27, 2011, Dew Point Depression of 129 F. Temp was 107, Dewpoint was -22, RH was 1%
http://goo.gl/N7XNq
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXRERVEF&wfo=vef&version=4

Thanks for listening to the FogBank, Skydaver out.

June 27

All caught up now.  New Fog Banks will be posted after the WeatherBrains podcast goes up on iTunes.
I hope you enjoy the Fog Bank. Please send me your picks to include.


Hello everyone, welcome to the Fogbank, listener supplied picks of the week. I'm Dave Phillips, Skydaver on Twitter.

From AccuWeather - Does Lightning Strike Men or Women More Often
http://goo.gl/WgHYt
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/51439/does-lightning-strike-men-or-w.asp

The current road conditions on the Going-to-the-Sun road. the central section is still closed due to snow, and there are large amounts of snow in the park, with the potential for large scale avalanches
http://goo.gl/mE2ie
http://home.nps.gov/applications/glac/roadstatus/roadstatus.cfm


From the Capital Weather Gang, in Washington DC, an article on Lightning Safety Week and survival stories
http://goo.gl/Yiu5G
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/lightning-safety-week-and-survival-stories/2011/06/24/AGj1a4iH_blog.html


RIck Smith, the Norman OK WCM, @ounwcm, twittered that NWS Director Jack Hayes is now on Twitter. @JackatNWS

The NWS page for Point Barrow, AK
http://pabr.arh.noaa.gov/
Gotta love the hours of daylight right now.

A bonus pick for this week,
Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006, sends a story from Huffposttech.  "Optimistic Weather App" Lies To You About Tomorrow's Weather  
http://goo.gl/MzkB0

Send your weather picks for the Fogbank to Skydaver on Twitter.

June 21 Fog Bank

A new episode of "That Weather Show" from NWS, Norman, When Radar Met Wind Farm
http://goo.gl/btZAh
http://www.norman.noaa.gov/2011/06/when-radar-met-wind-farm/

NOAA Weather Partners youtube video, microburst in Norman, OK
http://goo.gl/5oZuB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjErfb8GM-U&feature=channel_video_title

Chuck Prevatte send in a link to the National Interagency Fire Center.
http://www.nifc.gov/

Mark Drees, txskywtchr, tweeted a link to a youtube video:
Young METs out there please take note...do NOT do this in your show!
http://goo.gl/w0kGC
http://youtu.be/sLwnFZ6hKXg

An NPR story, with audio & transcript about loss of funding for weather satellites
http://goo.gl/RqGhO
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/137251742/blind-eye-in-the-sky-weather-satellites-lose-funding

June 13 Fog Bank

Rob Lightbown
@crownweather Caribou, Maine
http://www.crownweather.com

METED module: AMS/COMET/Meteorological Service of Canada, Mountain Weather Workshop
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=878


Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
http://www.casa.umass.edu/

WB episode 267, Pizza in the cold.  Go to about 5:15, for two minutes, then 1:04:30, for another couple of minutes. That's all I'm going to say about that.


From Scott Bachmeier
@CIMSS_Satellite
Nice example of a von Kármán vortex street downwind of Guadalupe Island (west of Baja California) today: http://t.co/krWWC6I

June 6 Fog Bank

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Fogbank, the response to a challenge from Kevin Selle, to provide a pick of the week for each of the WeatherBrains. I'm Dave Phillips, skydaver on Twitter.  Send me your weather picks to include in the Fogbank

First up, METED has released more new educational modules, two in their Volcanism series, and one about Sea Ice and the products of the National Ice Center.  That's at meted.ucar.edu, and you can get on the mailing list for notifications at comet.ucar.edu.


Jeff Master's had a blog post about the need for investing in better tornado warningswith excerpts from a press release from the NWS Employees Organization.
http://goo.gl/mndpG
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1811

The NSSL has a survey about weather warnings.  This is for non-meteorologists or storm chasers
If you are NOT a meteorologist or storm chaser, take the survey at
http://goo.gl/SGbaQ
 http://fb.me/OnxNsE3M


NWS Public Information Statement on use of Twitter.
http://goo.gl/VRfSi
http://www.weather.gov/view/national.php?prod=PNS&sid=WSH

I'll close out with two picks related to the start of hurricane season in the Atlantic:

This is little more old-fashioned, at least in modern social media terms, you can sign up for email lists from the Nat'l Hurricane Center
http://goo.gl/IYQbi
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/signup.shtml

The National Hurricane Center, Atlantic, is on Twitter, @NHC_Atlantic
http://goo.gl/Qv98N
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/twitter.shtml

May 27 Fog Bank

Another new module from METED, Applications for Emergency Decision Support
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=773
You do have to register with METED, but it's free.


Matthew East, meteorologist for Time Warner Cable in NC, with a blogpost about the severe storm threat for April 27
http://mattheweast.blogspot.com/2011/04/wow.html


Another river flooding product; I wish I remembered who sent it to me so I could give credit.  This one is for North Carolina rivers.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/rah/hydro/reference/river_toolbox.htm

This is the main page for the 'Snotel' graph from a previous FogBank.  I'll give the name of the facility, but James has to keep his hand off the buzzer for a few seconds. It is the National Water & Climate Center of the USDA.  All sorts of different maps, reports.
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/

The American Red Cross 'Safe and Well' website, where you can register yourself as safe & well, and look up folks that have done so
https://safeandwell.communityos.org/cms/index.php
Thanks to Chuck Prevatte, Chuck006 on Twitter, for that link

May 23 Fog Bank

Hello everyone, welcome to the FogBank.  I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC.  Follow me on Twitter, and send me your links @Skydaver.  Most of these links are available through Google's link shortener, goo.gl

First up, I'd like to apologize to James for stealing his pick … when you have as many picks as I do, you're bound to have a few duplicates.

The Univ. of Michigan has a website that shows tornados over the past 48 hours, or over the current date in history.  I wish it let you specify a particular date, but I think you'll like it
http://www.tornadopaths.org/

The Storm Prediction Center has an interesting product, a severe report database coupled with a GIS database, and has displays of tornado touchdowns, tracks, lift points, and other information
http://goo.gl/O9Tpu
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/gis/svrgis/

An article from SpaceNews.com, about early prediction of the April 27 tornado outbreak
http://goo.gl/BwGOm
http://www.spacenews.com/earth_observation/110516-weather-sats-saw-tornado-swarm.html

A briefing from the National Severe Storms Laboratory about their On Demand Severe Weather Verification System.
http://goo.gl/2dM2H
https://secure.nssl.noaa.gov/briefings/2011/05/nssls-rotation-tracks-image-of-the-tornado-outbreak-gets-some-appreciation/

A prototype mapping project for the Lower Mississippi flooding event.  The page warns that it will only be available for the duration of the current event in May 2011.
http://goo.gl/JggpX
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/ssd/mapping/RFC/

May 16 Fog Bank

Welcome, Weather Brains listeners, this is the Fog Bank, keeping JB fog horn free.  I'm Dave Phillips, you can follow me on Twitter @Skydaver

NWS Flood Forecast
http://goo.gl/XgA2y
http://water.weather.gov/ahps/forecasts.php?stage=7

The Dept. of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Tower SNOTEL Water Year Graph
http://goo.gl/wkXRM
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/wygraph-swe-only.pl?stationidname=06J29S-TOWER&state=CO

From Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006, a NYT article about warning system for cellphones
 Fresh off @laughingsquid twitter.  May fix what Dr.Tim wastalking about.  http://goo.gl/ayG98
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/us/10safety.html?_r=2

METED has updated their Satellite Meteorology module
http://goo.gl/aOGC7
and the MET-ED home page is www.meted.ucar.edu

From the Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post, a write up of the tornado and the St. Louis airport
http://goo.gl/R6F85
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/despite-warning-st-louis-tornado-caught-airport-passengers-off-guard/2011/05/13/AFYkhX2G_blog.html

Join the Fog Bank by sending your interesting weather links with a mention of @SkyDaver.  I'll post these on the Weatherbrains Facebook page.

May 9 Fog Bank

Welcome to the Fog Bank, a listener segment dedicated to no horn for JB.  I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem NC, @skydaver on Twitter.  This is recorded on May 9, 2011. Use Google's link shortener, goo.gl, for all links, except as noted.

I want to express my deepest sympathies & best wishes to all those affected by the recent tornados, and the flooding in the midwest.

First up is the info for Weatherbrains friend & supporter, Mike Wilhelm.  His blog is www.bamawx.com, his Facebook page is bamawx.com, and his Twitter handle is, you guessed it … @bamawx

Next up, All Weather Talk Radio, 670 The Storm
http://is.gd/BJk91i
http://goo.gl/qZ388

The USAF 403rd Wing: Hurricane Hunters & Flying Jennys, is on Twitter, @403PA, and you can get to their web page
http://www.403wg.afrc.af.mil/
http://goo.gl/5eQUF

Charles Prevatte, @chuck06, sent in  WeatherBytes - a smart phone app & webpage
http://goo.gl/e8mY9
 http://bit.ly/hwa4Sw

I've got some links related to the April 27 tornado outbreak.

First, Lost Remote has another great article on James Spann, and his use of Twitter.  I'm sure we've all seen what he's doing, and I think you'll like this article.  Great job, James.
http://goo.gl/eH5fL
http://www.lostremote.com/2011/05/05/how-james-spann-sparked-a-social-news-phenomenon/

From NASA Earth Observatory, a satellite image of the April 27 tornado track
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=50462
http://goo.gl/VoAaD

Finally, Mike Wilhelm sent a Twitter update with a link to the Hunstville Times op-ed piece by Chris Darden, of the NWS Huntsville office
http://blog.al.com/times-views/2011/05/a_perspective_from_the_meteoro.html
http://goo.gl/BomvM

April 25 Fog Bank

Hello, everyone, this is Dave Phillips, @skydaver on Twitter, bringing you the Fog Bank for April 25th, 2011

I've sent out all these picks on Twitter, and I use Google's link shortener, goo.gl so I can give them to you here.

The National Data Buoy Center deploys the first operational wave glider buoy.  The wave glider uses the motion of the waves to provide thrust, and gives station keeping ability to a non-tethered buoy.
http://goo.gl/yqHjk
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/glider_launch.shtml

I ran across a storm chaser blog called 'Eye of the Storm' by Greg Nordstrom. He's on Twitter @GregNordstrom
http://goo.gl/VmmBr
http://ldctstormchaser.blogspot.com/

A short weather podcast, from Weather Partners at the NWS in Normam OK.  The episode is about weather balloons, and there is a transcript on the site.  They can do that since it's only a couple of minutes long, and scripted.
http://goo.gl/KZCGw
http://www.norman.noaa.gov/2011/04/flight-of-the-weather-balloons/

Amy Sweezy, meteorologist from WESH in Orlando, FL, @AmySweezy retweeted a picture of dew points in New Mexico. @IanMSchwarz posted it originally, and you can get his twitter ID from the picture. I suppose that technically, they are dewpoints, but there isn't much dew going on there.
http://twitpic.com/4l99k2
back when I was skydiving, we'd occasionally get very low humidity days in NC, and we called them 'severe clear'. The ground would seem to start rushing up at you at much higher altitudes than normal.

I'll close with the Iowa State Mesonet reports from North Carolina NWS Offices
http://goo.gl/LSDa0
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/lsr/#GSP,CAE,RAH,ILM,MHX,RNK,AKQ/201104150400/201104170127/0100

Join the No Horn for JB club; send me your weather picks. My Gmail address is the same as my Twitter handle.

April 18 Fog Bank

I think this is the first Fog Bank where I started using Google's link shortener, goo.gl. Please let me know whether you like it


Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, recorded on the morning of April 18, 2011.

These are listener supplied picks of the week, with the ongoing mission of keeping the foghorn silent for JB.

Before I get into the picks, I would like to ask James if he listened to the Cal Ripken interview.

All of the picks have been run through Google's link shortener, and can be found by adding the string that I'll give to goo.gl/

With all the storms systems we've been talking about, it seems a little odd to speak of drought, but a lot of the US has drought conditions.
The Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln has a drought monitor page:
http://goo.gl/uzbTg
http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

The US Forest Service Active Fire Mapping Program
http://goo.gl/Z78hC
http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/

April 12 Aurora Gallery from SpaceWeather.com
http://goo.gl/Kotor
http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01apr11.htm


Respect the polygon, a writeup of a TV meteorologist that some of us have heard a few times:
http://goo.gl/8Vv4G
http://www.lostremote.com/2011/04/15/popular-tv-meteorologist-in-eye-of-social-media-tornado/

From the NWS office in San Diego, CA, an experimental Google Maps based storm report
http://goo.gl/BdZTb
That link is for Raleigh, NC, April 16, but you can select other NWS locations via a pulldown to the right of the map, and you can change the date with a calendar widget on the bottom right (you might have to scroll down to get to that.
The standard Google Maps navigation is available, too.  There are various filters you can apply for specific events, and overlays from the Storm Prediction Center.  I haven't figured out what the overlay selections do, yet.  I also have a link for Birmingham, for the April 11 system, that is at
http://goo.gl/5cKdp
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sgx/kml/lsr.php?cwa=bmx&lsr=All&start=201104110000&end=201104112359


Ed Matthews, from WFMY in Greensboro NC, talking about severe weather coverage
http://goo.gl/uhCws

Join the no horn for JB club by posting your weather picks on twitter, and mention me, @skydaver

April 11 Fog Bank

I'd been hoping that Brian, or someone, would put my links into the Weather Brains page (I sent them the text everyweek, but it wasn't happening.


The Fog Bank for April 11, 2011.

The Great Derecho of April 4-5, 2011, by Brad Panovich @wxbrad
http://wxbrad.com/?p=855
A nice writeup of the straight-line wind storms that affected much of the east.
I'll include in the the Storm Prediction Center storm reports from April 5
http://www.spc.ncep.noaa.gov/climo/reports/110404_rpts.html

A cloud hole over Florida, from USA Today's website, reader submitted photos:
http://www.usatoday.com/community/photos/publicgalleryphoto.htm?plckPhotoID=df6c758a-5f82-436e-b24f-1bd0513a1ca1&plckGalleryID=bceb126e-8229-4386-9ab7-a6ac4eb18e12

April 5 twitter update by Jeff Gammons, @weatherzine
Squall line / gust front racing SE over Lake Okeechobee, FL  http://twitpic.com/4hbe8r
His website is http://stormvisuals.com

and from March 31,
Bow Echo severe storm with hail core earlier over Polk Co, FL. http://twitpic.com/4ff5r5

From the Daily Galaxy, a picture from the International Space Station of the Cordillera Huahash (whywash) in the Peruvian Andes.  Siula Grande is in there, the location of a very interesting book and movie called 'Touching The Void'  The picture shows the mountain range blocking moisture on one side.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/iss-captures-the-spectucular-cordillera-huayhuash-in-the-peruvian-andes-.html

From the UK Met Office, a blogpost about the dust from a Saharan storm headed to the UK.  It contains a nice satellite photo of the dusty cloud.
https://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/saharan-dust-heads-for-the-uk/
NASA's Earth Observatory also had a nice picture of this event.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=50066

Fog Bank for April 4

Looks like this is the first segment that I named as "The Fog Bank". I started writing a script to follow, so that I'd stumble less as I went through them.  I'm not a media pro like the Weather Brains, and have trouble making a smooth delivery.


Welcome to the Fog Bank, a listener segment dedicated to keeping the fog horn quiet for JB's picks.  I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem NC.

First up, a March 9th story from NASA NASA Satellites busy with this weeks severe weather
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/severe-weather.html

Next, the NWS Fairbanks, AK office
http://pafg.arh.noaa.gov/

Staying in the northern latitudes, the Aurora Borealis Forecast
http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/auroraforecast/

There was a bunch of severe weather in Florida on March 31, and my fourth pick is several Twitter update pictures.

from NASAKennedy, also March 31st
An ominous thunderstorm cloud hovers over the Vehicle Assembly Building. http://twitpic.com/4fd4eu
http://twitpic.com/4fd4eu/full
James had this on the albamawx weather blog, too.

Brad Panovich's Twitter updates from March 31st storms around Tampa
I know it's Florida but just WOW!  http://twitpic.com/4fc4ib that is a crazy strong signature of a tornado near Tampa. #flwx #tornado

Tampa, FL better seek shelter now that is a serious storm with major rotation  http://twitpic.com/4fbzl2 #flwx #tornado

WOW that storm near Pinellas as a wicked RFD on it!  http://twitpic.com/4fbykn #flwx #tornado

Finally, On April 1, 1960, 50 years ago, the first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched.
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/collections/TIROS/tiros.html
No foolin'.

If you want to join the No Horn for JB club, post your weather picks to Twitter, and put my Twitter id, @Skydaver, into a mention.

March 28 Fog Bank

From NWS Norman OK
Portable Weather Radar
http://www.research.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/2011/articles/have-radar-will-travel.html

WeatherSpark, WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. www.weatherspark.com


WSJ review of 'Cloud Collecter's Handbook' from Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703597804576194852761064910.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_5


Alaska weather blog
http://alaskawxblog.blogspot.com/

APOD video of borealis

(That's Astronomy Picture of the Day, easy to find on any search engine)

March 21 Fog Bank

I don't think I'd come up with the Fog Bank label yet.  This was my second submission; James played this and the March 14 submission on the same show.

I'm still looking for an easy pay to post the audio, but it may not be worth it, as you can always go back to the Weather Brains site to listen


NWS Flood Safety Week
http://www.weather.gov/floodsafety/

NWS Significant Flood Outlook
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/nationalfloodoutlook/index.html

A view of all the world's clouds, updated from three sources. It also shows the day/night terminus; near the equinox, the terminus is nearly vertical
http://www.daylightmap.com/clouds/

A newspaper article from the Louisville KY Courier Journal, written by Joe Sullivan, NWS WCM for Louisville, on surviving severe weather
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110306/OPINION04/303060049/Joe-Sullivan-Surviving-severe-weather-team-effort?odyssey=mod
http://bit.ly/ez5P3v

March 10 Storm, captured by NASA AIRS instrument (NHC Facebook page)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=407239&id=112998395413629

National Buoy Data Center (already done by Brian Peters)
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dart.shtml

Fog Bank for March 14

These picks were sent in after Kevin's challenge.  James missed the email that week.


Radar pic of Mobile Bay tornado from @wxbrad (Brad Panovich, WCNC)
 http://twitpic.com/47t9lh
posted on Twitter at 9:54 EST 09 Mar 2011

Brad Panovich Weather blog for the March 9-10 storms
http://wxbrad.com/2011/03/09/flood-watch-is-up-for-most-of-the-area/


Cryosphere Today, from Univ. of Illinois Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences Polar Research Group
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/


For James Spann (NPR voice), the "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" segment with Cal Ripken Jr.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=133302574&m=133303217

Fogbank Picks of the Week

Nothing fancy here, just a transcript (or nearly so) of my Fogbank submissions to  Weather Brains. If I can upload mp3 files here, I'll post the audio, too.