Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Fog Bank, March 26, 2012
Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB.
Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather has interesting stuff in his blog, weathermatrix. On March 15, he shows radar ducting picking up echoes off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/radar-ducting-catches-chesapeake-bridge/62811
If you ever get tired of Aurora pictures, stop listening to the Fog Bank. Astronomy Picture of the Day has a very nice one, from Iceland, taken March 17, 2012
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120321.html
An explanation of the marine layer, from the NWS Jetstream website
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/ocean/marine.htm
From the National Severe Storms Laboratory, a background report on the Warn on Forecast project
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/news/backgrounders/WoF%202011.pdf
NASA has an upcoming mission to study very high level jet stream winds. They will be launching 5 rockets, 5 minutes apart, from Wallops Island, with camera sites watching the plumes from North Carolina and New Jersey.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-nightlight.html
Send me your picks for the Fog Bank, and send me your pictures of you Spanning, I'll post them in the blog. We can call it Spanning the Globe. Here's mine:
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