Friday, May 11, 2012

Fog Bank, May 7, 2012


Welcome to the Fog Bank, rising to the Kevin Selle challenge.

Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to March 10, 2011 (you'll have to listen to the audio to hear Kevin's Challenge.


Here we go.
Pick number one, a Washington Post article about a ribbon in a thunderstorm.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tornado-scientists-are-surprised-to-find-ribbon-in-thunderstorm-data/2012/04/30/gIQAcx2AsT_story.html

Pick number two is a Twitter picture sent to the @cloudappsoc
https://twitter.com/#!/TylerDurden921/status/191571473675206657/photo/1

Pick number three is from the UK Meteorology office with an explanation of lighting and thunder
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/why-are-we-getting-thunder-and-lightning/

Pick number four is a blog post from Bryan Wood about the FEMA Disaster declaration process
http://www.miamivalleywx.com/2012/04/22/fema/

My fifth pick is from the Twitter account for the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies posted a nice example of overshooting tops and concentric gravity waves radiating outward along the thunderstorm anvil top.  Their Twitter handle is @CIMSS_Satellite
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/120506_g13_vis_KS_MO_anim.gif


Thanks for listening, Skydaver, out.


Audio Fog Bank

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