Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Fog Bank, March 3, 2014

A dust storm from Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Earth Science Picture of the Day, of course.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/02/cimarron-county-dust-storm.html

Nick Walker, from The Weather Channel, passed on a wonderful Undulatus Asperatus cloud photo
https://twitter.com/wxdude/status/438353274710663168/photo/1

For much of British Columbia, Canada, January was warmer than normal, causing some spectacular fogs.
Earth Science Picture of the Day has a nice photo taken January 24, 2104
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/02/fog-engulfs-vancouver.html

Spaceweathergallery has a great photo of the Aurora, taken in Reykjavik. It has very little green in it, and the photographer thought at first he was seeing the effects of a volcano eruption
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=94890

Halos and ice crystal arcs from Utah, featured at Earth Science Picture of the Day
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/03/halo-display-at-snowbird-utah.html

It is March 3 as I record this. We had snow all over North Carolina. Other people have said this, but…
Go home, Winter. You're drunk.

Finally, a bit of audio about why the Fog Bank is part of Weather Brains. The Origins of the Fog Bank


For JB
An image from NASA MODIS satellites showing the Great Ice Rinks, or as they're more commonly known, the Great Lakes
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/83000/83169/GreatLakes_amo_2014050_721.jpg



Audio Fog Bank

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