Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Fog Bank, Nov. 4, 2013

First up,
From KOPN in Columbia, MO, a blog post and reference to research at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) that may enable longer-term forecasting of US heatwave
http://weather.kopn.org/wp/?p=87
The NCAR release
http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/10508/new-research-may-enable-longer-term-forecasts-us-heat-waves

The Astronomy Picture of the Day, for Halloween, had a great aurora photo
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131031.html

A photo taken in NYC of the partial solar eclipse, Sun. Nov. 3
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131104.html

My fourth pick comes from the
Capital Weather Gang with a compilation of photos of the solar eclipse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/11/04/sunrise-solar-eclipse-one-stunning-time-lapse-five-golden-images/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=bufferfe56d&utm_medium=twitter

I'll close out with a very pretty double rainbow picture, but after getting snared by the lightning struck sand photo, I'm not going to call it real.
Is this double rainbow picture real?
Michael Seger@MichaelSeger 9:58 AM
Wow!! RT @bbcweather A double rainbow captured by Paul Appleby in Shiremoor. bbc.in/1felCiO Jo W pic.twitter.com/G0zMPLqhyr

Thanks for listening,

For JB.
Panorama photo of a roll cloud in Amarillo TX
Texas Storm Chasers@TxStormChasers 10:18 AM
Roll cloud along the cold front south of Amarillo this morning, from Daniel Keith. #txwx pic.twitter.com/KuAJi8zHh7


Audio Fog Bank

Fog Bank, October 28, 2013

First pick was a photo posted on Twitter, taken from an airplane. Great photo of gravity waves, from above the clouds

ntxweathersooner@ntxweathersoonr 12:07 AM
Gravity waves“ @HighDriveK9: Clouds looked like ocean waves this morning high above @dfwairport pic.twitter.com/jPIxRnYl8q” @NWSFortWorth

My second pick comes from
ESPOD with an Aurora photo, and an interesting guest
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/09/manitoba-aurora-and-meteor.html

Third I have Chuck Doswell's comments on the Mike Morgan interview
http://www.flame.org/~cdoswell/MikeMorgan_Interview_Comments.html?utm_content=buffer94824&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

Fourth, A 2011 picture of Kelvin Helmholz clouds
Georgia Storm Chaser@StormCoker 11:48 AM
These rare "tsunami clouds" form under certain air turbulence! Taken in Birmingham, AL in 2011! #WeatherWednesday pic.twitter.com/osgEBvxRZP

Fifth, Ginger Zee retweeted an interesting cloud photo, taken in Princeton, Nj, with the comment "Take your guesses"
Ginger Zee@Ginger_Zee 10:13 AM
Take your guesses! MT“ @carterromero23: @Ginger_Zee @RiderUnivComm Princeton, NJ. #Namethatcloud pic.twitter.com/33iIVDuNoy

For JB
A video from OceanToday about Hurricane Sandy
http://oceantoday.noaa.gov/makingofasuperstorm/