Fog Bank for Jan 3, 2012

Happy New Year, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips.  Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, or Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

The first pick for the New Year comes from the Earth Science Picture of the Day, with two nice examples of virga
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/12/virga-and-rainfall-traces.html

The second pick is from the BBC, with a story about lenticular clouds in Yorkshire, England.  Apparently, they're not that common in that region. You have to wait past their commercial to see it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16309120

Third, the UK MetOffice @metoffice, posted a time lapse video of the lenticular clouds in Yorkshire
http://bit.ly/tM0p2U
They also posted their cloud information page
 http://bit.ly/tDF8ol

Fourth, Jeff Haby at Mississippi State has 'The Ultimate Weather Education Center'
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/
Thanks to Chuck Prevatte for that pick.

Finally, I have "The Snow Booklet", from Colorado State University Dept. of Atmospheric Studies
http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/pdfs/snowbook.pdf

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