Fog Bank, July 29, 2013

Hello Weather Brains listeners, this is Dave Phillips.   Don't forget to follow me, @skydaver on Twitter.  You might hear a little background noise; my windows are wide open, with a 56F dew point today.

Brad Panovic posted a neat twitter update last week. He wrote:
One of my favorite quirks of NC is that the driest & wettest locations are just one county apart http://twitpic.com/d4pevw

HT to George R. Chisenhall@grcjr for a tweet about
Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program products. Great information for tropical season. He sent that to Nate & me.
http://www.hfip.org/products/


Space Weather.com for July 18 had an entry on the calculated height of noctilucent clouds
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=07&year=2013

A Washington Post article about radar gaps & downtime
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/07/25/storms-flying-under-the-radar-when-radar-gaps-and-down-time-turn-dangerous/

What's the smell of rain?  WB guest Aubrey Urbanowicz has the answer in her blog.  It isn't Brian's old socks.
http://www.whsv.com/blogs/whsvweatherblog/Weather_Questions_The_Smell_of_Rain_216074701.html

Thanks for listening,
Skydaver out.

Sent to JB
Capital Weather Gang with a nice explanation of pop up thunderstorms
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/07/22/the-pulse-of-summer-when-pop-up-thunderstorms-turn-severe/

Audio Fog Bank, July 29