Fog Bank, October 20, 2014

Eric Fisher, Chief Met. for CBS in Boston, has a nice article on technology & tornado identification
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/why-some-of-the-mystery-is-gone/

Astronomy Picture of the day gets two slots, with a short video of  sprite lightning in slow motion.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141013.html

and an Auroral corona picture taken in Norway, from Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141014.html


An oldie, but goodie. From April 25, 2013, NOAA's Weather Ready Nation news on Dual Polarization Radar
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/weatherreadynation/news/130425_dualpol.html#.VDx4wNR4ru5

I'll close with two links from ESPOD.

ESPOD again with lenticular clouds over the Andes
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/10/lenticular-clouds-over-the-southern-andes.html

ESPOD has a photo of a roll cloud in Brazil
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/10/morning-glory-over-southeastern-brazil.html

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Fog Bank, October 13, 2014

Jesse Ferrell had a great set of photos of asperatus clouds over NYC
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/incredible-nyc-asperatus-clouds-this-morning/34907758

CoCoRaHS has a webinar coming up October 23, on atmospheric rivers. The webinar will be recorded and available for later viewing.
http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk

NASA offers a mailing list to get science updates from the ISS lead scientist.
https://lists.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/iss-program-science-group

The National Snow & Ice Data Center published their 2014 arctic melt season review
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2014/10/2014-melt-season-in-review/

Spaceweather.com has a very nice gallery of photos of the lunar eclipse
http://spaceweathergallery.com/eclipse_gallery.html

CIMSS_Satellite tweeted a picture of the Blood moon from the GOES East satellite
https://twitter.com/CIMSS_Satellite/status/519918104923881473

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Fog Bank, Oct. 6, 2014

I'll start this week with a photo of a fog bank, from Earth Science Picture of the Day
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/10/the-fog-rolls-in.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day with a full circle rainbow
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140930.html

@NOAASatellites tweeted about National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and the Deep Space Climate Observatory, DSCOVR. The satellite is going out to the earth-sun Lagrange 1 point, about 1 million miles from Earth, and will monitor solar activity.
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/index.html

Tony Rice commented on pictures of the Milky Way. How about a picture of the Milky Way just before the sun rises over the Sahara, taken from the ISS?
http://www.nasa.gov/content/milky-way-viewed-from-the-international-space-station/#.VCxYQ-fc0Qg

A great aurora picture taken in Norway
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/10/auroral-corona-over-hemnesberget-norway.html

I sent out a tweet at the start of the show with my solution for watching The Weather Channel on a television .. Here it is:

Bonus link --- the polar vortex
http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2014/10/05

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Fog Bank, Sept. 29, 2014

I really should have numbered these ...

Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, this is David Phillips, skydaver on Twitter

Astronomy Picture of the Day, with a photo of the Aurora & volcanic light pillar
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140923.html

Earth Observatory had a great photo and discussion of Clouds & Dust over the Sahara, taken from the ISS.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84400&src=eoa-iotd

ESPOD has some great rainbow photos on Sept. 27.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/09/the-span-of-a-rainbow.html

I've got a comic about the science news cycle I think you'll like
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174

A few final, short, comments on the WeatherGeeks show on The Weather Channel. Dr. Shepard. A+. Guests, A+ (you were great, James, can't wait to see next week) Graphics … makes me think of a bad Geocities web site.

Thanks for listening, Skydaver Out

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