Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Fog Bank, Jan. 28, 2013


A high speed, 3D camera to capture snowflakes as they fall
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2264666/The-high-tech-camera-snap-snowflakes-3D-fall--help-forecasters-better-predict-blizzards.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Snow Rollers in Vermont
https://plus.google.com/photos/110542479265736697332/albums/5836319661032226849?authkey=CO3Oyqjq65TGNw

Nate had heard of these, but I know these pictures aren't the ones everyone has seen.
I also have the Wikipedia article on them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_roller

Earth Science Picture of the Day had waterspouts in the Mediterranean
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/01/tornadic-waterspouts-off-the-island-of-rhodes-greece.html

The NC Climate office had a nice article about wind chill
http://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=11&h=c64cc35e

Jacob Wycoff posted a great photo
Gravity wave clouds and lake effect snow bands over the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast today. (via @NASA MODIS satellite)
https://twitter.com/4cast4you/status/294138779772534785/photo/1


Sent to JB
Double rainbows are nice, but how about a triple?  Earth Science Picture of the Day has one
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/01/triple-rainbows.html



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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Fog Bank, Jan. 14, 2013


Hello, Weather Brains Listeners, this is David Phillips, Skydaver on Twitter & Google+.

Mike Moss sent YouTube video of the aftermath of the Grand Rapids, MI, tornado of April 3-5, 1956
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJo6VTW0MA

Forget fantasy football, this is Fantasy meteorology
http://wondermark.com/900/

A weatherblog, from @stratusstatus, a weather technology company started by two meteorology students,
@arthurnichols and @blakefoust
http://stratustatus.blogspot.com/

Mike Moss helps me out again, with a link to the announcement from the NWS Nat'l Center for Environmental Prediction hardware failure of the Model Analysis & Guidance website.
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/notice2.shtml

I'll close out with a picture of the Avengers (the actors, that is) spanning
Avengers Spanning



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