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!

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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

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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!

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