Fog Bank, Dec. 22, 2014

I think WeatherBrains 101 had sun dogs a few weeks ago.; Astronomy Picture of the Day had moon dogs
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141211.html

ESPOD with a nice lenticular cloud formation
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/12/lenticular-cloud-formation-above-volcan-de-agua.html

CoCoRaHS has announced a number of new webinars:
Webinar #37 - CoCoRaHS WxTalk: Tsunami Science and Tsunami Warning Systems
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2014

Greg Carbin of NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center, with “A Review of Significant Weather Events Occurring in  2014, Thursday Dec. 11

Thursday Jan 22, Simon Trautman, avalanche specialist with the US Forest Service “Avalanches in the US … In a Nutshell”

NOAA Satellites has a Flickr account now
https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaasatellites/

Guy walks into a bar and trailing behind is an old, mangy dog who promptly curls up in a corner and goes to sleep as the guy bellies up to the bar.
Bartender comes over and says "No dogs allowed in here, you'll have to put him outside."

Guy says "You can see he's an old dog. It's cold out there and I take him everywhere. If he can do a trick you like will you let him stay?"

Bartender says "Him do a trick? That I would like to see."

Guy goes up to the dog and yells “Hey, Navy beat Army". The dog's ears immediately come up, he pops up, jumps on the bar, does thirteen back flips, barks out the rhythm of Anchors Aweigh, jumps off the bar and promptly goes back to sleep in the corner.

Bartender says "That really is something - what does he do when Army beats Navy?"

Guy replies: " How would I know, he's just thirteen years old!"

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!



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Fog Bank, Nov. 24, 2014

Earth Science Picture of the Day
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/11/undulatus-asperatus-cloud-observed-over-guatemala.html

Dr. Shephard’s WeatherGeeks this week was great, talking about the polar vortex.

@brendanloy had some fantastic scathing tweets about the stupidity that emanated from NY Gov. Cuomo’s mouth after the Buffalo snowstorm.

NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Laboratory has some great tools to play around with.
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/

The British Antarctic Survey published a study of Antarctic sea ice done via a robotic submarine that used an upward looking sonar
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=2839

Not sure who first put this out on Twitter, but it’s a fantastic photo, I think from the Canary Islands, fog spilling out of an elevated valley
https://twitter.com/NEweatherHQ/status/535873427006304257/photo/1
Skydaver out!



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Fog Bank, Nov. 17, 2014

Wow, I've fallen behind, and missed a bunch.  With no further ado, the Nov. 17 Fog Bank

APOD for Oct. 29 of iridescent clouds over Colorado.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141029.html

Great aurora video at space weather.com
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=29&month=10&year=2014

ESPOD with a photo of a rainbow taken from aloft
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/11/rainbow-from-aloft.html

Space.com has a photo of the Astronomy picture of the year
http://www.space.com/27197-astronomy-photo-contest-winners.html?adbid=533451340744105984&adbpl=tw&adbpr=15431856&cmpid=514648_20141115_35646847

Since it's so darn cold this week, I thought I'd close with the website for the National Snow & Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/


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