Fog Bank, Nov. 23, 2015

Earth Science Picture of the Day,  with Altocumulus Cloud Streets
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/11/altocumulus-cloud-streets.html

Great fireball photo on Spaceweather.com. Follow the link, and scroll down a bit.
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=11&year=2015

A fireball with aurora picture, again from space weather.com
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=11&month=11&year=2015

Friend of the show Chuck Prevatte sent me an article about Australian emergency groups, social media, and a need for greater coordination during emergencies.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-10/australians-disaster-trailblazers-social-media-planning-needed/6926532

The New Yorker Magazine, with a book review titled “Writers in the Storm: How weather went from symbol to science and back again” The book is Alexandra Harris’s “Weatherland” (Thames & Hudson), a forthcoming history of weather in English literature.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/writers-in-the-storm

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Fog Bank, November 9, 2015

I think the interview went a little long, and James didn't have time to play this.

Space Weather.com with a fireball photo
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=03&month=11&year=2015

Kelvin Helmholtz clouds featured at sciencealert.com and Gizmodo
http://www.sciencealert.com/these-beautiful-clouds-look-like-the-perfect-fiery-breaking-waves/
http://gizmodo.com/these-gorgeous-fiery-clouds-show-off-the-wonders-of-flu-1739793943

Jen Hendersen’s Weather Safety Daily had a link to NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management Digital Coast web page
http://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/hurricane

Found on Facebook; a photo of condensation trails coming off wind turbines
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1514113572236359&set=gm.1067286506623576&type=3&theater

Thursday, Nov. 12, CoCoRaHS will have a Webinar on Lake Effect snow. If you can’t get in, it will be available later. I have a link to the CoCoRaHS webinar page
http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk

HT to @newton21989 for a photo of a fall streak cloud with rainbow
http://imgur.com/gallery/1lN62mo

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Fog Bank, Nov. 2, 2015

Earth Science Picture of the Day comes in with three picks this week.
First up, a triple rainbow
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/10/primary-secondary-and-supernumerary-rainbows.html

Number 2 is a lenticular cloud over the Canary Islands
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/10/lenticular-cloud-over-tenerife-canary-islands.html

Number 3 is a thunderstorm’s rain shield in Guatemala
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/10/rain-shield-of-approaching-storm.html

JPL’s Scijinks site, had an article on storm surge
http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov/storm-surge/

Finally
SpaceWeather.com has a picture of a blue starter, a lightning bolt starting out of the top of a thundercloud
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=25&month=10&year=2015


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Fog Bank, October 26, 2015

A new wind map site, similar to the hint.fm/wind link from several years ago. This one can give more weather info.
https://www.windyty.com/?37.996,-97.075,4

ESPOD with noctilucent clouds over Norway
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/09/noctilucent-clouds-observed-over-%C3%B8rsta-norway.html

Jason Samenow on communicating tropical storm threats.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/09/03/we-need-to-better-communicate-tropical-storm-threats-and-it-starts-at-the-national-hurricane-center/

NASA’s image of the day shows the ISS transiting the sun
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/international-space-station-transits-the-sun

ESPOD - roll cloud over Lake Michigan, taken in July of 2015
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/09/lake-michigan-roll-cloud.html


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Fog Bank, August 31, 2015

Just three picks this week; one of them is a bit long.

CWG with a report about replacing the temperature sensor in the ASOS unit at Reagan National
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/08/11/weather-service-installs-new-temperature-sensor-at-reagan-national-airport/


ESPOD with a composite photo of lightning over Central Florida, in July, 2015
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/08/lightning-display-over-central-florida.html

Nolan Doesken brings
The Return of the WxTalk Webinars!
Nolan will be the first speaker on Sept 17 describing the fascinating history of volunteer weather observations in the U.S.  The October Webinar will dig deep into the North American Monsoon by expert Christopher Castro from the Univ. of Arizona.  November will feature Tom Niziol, the Weather Channel's winter weather expert to tell us about Lake Effect Snow.  And it just get's better from there.

http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk

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Fog Bank, August 24, 2015

Space Weather.com has a nice photo of lightning sprites
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=07&year=2015

Double lenticular cloud over Mt. Rainier, from KING 5 Weather FB page.
https://www.facebook.com/KING5Weather/photos/a.153037851400004.24516.147285891975200/323228601047594/?type=1

Five myths about Washington DC summer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-summer-weather/2015/07/24/81603d30-30a3-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html


ESPOD with a photo of a severe storm over Northern Michigan
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/08/severe-storm-over-northern-michigan.html

Capitol Weather Gang with a discussion, photos and video of a wet microburst in Arizona
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/08/10/watch-this-textbook-timelapse-of-a-wet-microburst-in-arizona/

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Fog Bank, August 10, 2015

NASA’s Image of the day had some nice photos and an article about noctilucent clouds
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/night-shining-clouds

FEMA has a FAQ about tornado/hurricane safe rooms
http://www.fema.gov/safe-rooms/frequently-asked-questions-tornado/hurricane-safe-rooms


USA Today article on undulates asperatus clouds. Mentions the Cloud Appreciation Society briefly
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/06/20/asperatus-cloud-atlas/28994525/


ESPOD with a Feathery Cirrus & Hole Punch cloud.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/07/feathery-cirrus-and-hole-punch.html

I found this pretty funny
An Aussie comments on Mexican weather reporting.
https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/1473235299366191/?fref=nf
It is R rated

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Fog Bank, Jully 13, 2015

(Geez, I let this slide. I will try to keep this up to date with the WeatherBrains episodes. Holiday schedules threw a monkey wrench into things, too)

First, a public service announcement; if you get an email with an attachment saying it is Kayne West singing Bohemian Rhapsody, don’t open it.
It is Kayne West singing Bohemian Rhapsody.

This week’s Fog Bank all comes from the Capital Weather Gang, mostly from the middle of June, but still good reads.

Capital Weather Gang had a post with some nice pictures of the storms going through the DC area on June 18th
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/19/severe-thunderstorms-spawn-angry-skies-in-washington-d-c-photos/

Justin Grieser of the Capital Weather Gang has a post about the summer solstice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/20/summer-solstice-2015-five-questions-and-answers-about-the-longest-day-of-the-year/

Another story from Capital Weather Gang, with photos of severe thunderstorms in the DC area. My son lives in DC, and they’ve been getting pounded.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/22/severe-thunderstorms-generate-ominous-wall-clouds-in-d-c-photos/

CWG again, about hurricane force winds from a Derecho in the Midwest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/22/a-powerful-derecho-is-blasting-across-the-midwest-with-hurricane-force-winds/

CWG has a lot of great articles this week. This one is about Aurora sightings in the lower 48
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/23/aurora-borealis-glows-in-central-virginia-seen-as-far-south-as-texas-photos/

CWG , with an article about fantastic sunsets in the DC area, June 23.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/24/why-last-nights-post-storm-sunset-was-so-darn-beautiful-photos/

A bonus pick:
The National Severe Storms Lab has an article on their Plains Elevated Convection At Night project.
Of course, that’s not a great name … is it pea-CAN or Pu-con?
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/pecan/

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Fog Bank, June 22, 2015

theweathernetwork.com had a story about twin tornados in one storm, spinning in opposite directions.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/twin-twisters-caught-on-camera-beneath-a-huge-storm-cloud/52423/?cid=social_20150609_47213786&adbid=608302681573056512&adbpl=tw&adbpr=18638090

Speaceweather.com has a nice photo of noctilucent clouds
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=11&month=06&year=2015

HT to Jen Hendersen’s Weather Safety Daily for a link to the LA Times, with a story about the photographer that caught that twin tornado photo
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-twin-tornadoes-storm-photography-20150609-htmlstory.html

WSD also had a link to the BBC, with a story about England’s tornado alley
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-33136737

Q-tip @newton21989 sent a link to a MentalFloss video on weather misconceptions.
Old  news to most of us, but not too bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tNKVDQweYw&feature=youtu.be


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Fog Bank, June 8, 2015

Jen Hendersen’s Weather Safety Daily had a link to FEMA’s Flood Map Service
https://msc.fema.gov/portal/search

WSD also linked to Jason Samenow’s post about the sinking of the Chinese ferry on the Yangtze River.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/02/massive-thunderstorm-complex-tornado-capsized-chinese-ship/

I find it very difficult to believe that a properly designed ship, loaded within its allowable limits, would be capsized by a thunderstorm or even a tornado. I know that it’s far more difficult to determine the strength of a tornado that is over water, but I do know ship’s stability. The few pictures I’ve found of this ship before the capsize show something with a great deal of sail area, and looks a bit top heavy, that is, inadequate stability. Something is amiss.

The weather channel has a story about the 2005 hurricane system
http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2005-hurricane-season-by-the-numbers

They also have a story about Hurricane Blanca, which might give some badly needed rain to the southwest
http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-tropical-storm-blanca-baja-california-desert-southwest-jun2015

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Fog Bank, June 1, 2015

Hello WeatherBrains listeners.

Google Earth Blog has a post about NASA’s average cloud cover map & map projections
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/05/average-cloud-cover-map.html
From that post, you should click through to the mentalfloss.com article, too.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/63987/mapping-13-years-clouds-earth

Space Weather.com had an entry about the plume from Chile’s Calbuco volcano, which is making some very spectacular sunrises & sunsets in the Southern Hemisphere
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=24&month=05&year=2015

HT to Jen Hendersen’s Weather Safety Daily for a link to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, and a news release titled ‘Early warning must make sense.’ The article talks about a need for good impact based warnings.
http://www.unisdr.org/archive/44541

ESPOD has a photo of a wedge tornado from Rochelle, Illinois, on April 9, 2015
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/05/rochelle-illinois-wedge-tornado.html

ESPOD, Glaciating in clouds
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/06/glaciating-in-clouds-over-sparta-greece.html

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Fog Bank, May 25, 2015

Welcome to the FogBank, keeping Picks of the Week fog horn free for JB.

In early 2011, I got tired of hearing the Fog Horn for JB, and decided to help out. I started sending an email to WeatherBrains with a pick for JB to use. Kevin was email officer at the time, and actually thanked me for the picks once or twice.
In early March of 2011, episode 267 “Pizza in the cold”  he called me out and challenged me to record & send in five picks. I started the Fog Bank, and kept sending in choices to keep the fog horn silent for JB.

I have that history written up now. You can find that, and these picks, at skydaver.blogspot.com.

I’m only going to read out one pick this week, but I have four more at the blog.

The National Hurricane Center has a video about storm surge at their YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBa9bVYKLP0

ESPOD with a double lunar rainbow
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/05/double-lunar-moonbow.html

ESPOD again, with a viewer’s choice winner, sunrise crepuscular rays at Mt. Rainier
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/05/encore-mount-rainier-ray-and-sunrise.html

Spaceweather.com for May 17 had a great picture of a solar flare eruption. They also had a very nice photo of red sprite lightning
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=17&month=05&year=2015

The Raycom stations in Montgomery, AL, had a blogpost about summer storms
http://montgomery.raycomweather.com/2015/05/6-things-you-should-know-about-summertime-storms.html

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Fog Bank, May 18, 2015

Hello WeatherBrains listeners. This is David Phillips, @skydaver on Twitter. I was traveling last weekend, attending my son’s wedding.

Many picks this week from ESPOD, starting with a photo of anti crepuscular rays.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/04/anticrepuscular-ray-over-palau.html

Friend of the show Mike Eastwick  @wxMikeD, sent  a story at the BBC about the birth of the weather forecast
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32483678

From RobH @rherrin828 A link to the NWS Central Illinois Spotter Briefing page
http://www.weather.gov/ilx/spotter-brief

APOD, with an Aurora photo that almost didn’t happen
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150504.html

ESPOD, with a superior mirage on Lake Michigan (see what I did there. Almost Fishel worthy pun)
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/05/superior-mirage-on-lake-michigan.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out.

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Fog Bank, April 27, 2015

Hello WeatherBrains listeners, this is David Phillips. You can see my links at skydaver.blogspot.com

From Lifehacker, an article about a new app from the American Red Cross. It lets you monitor weather alerts for multiple cities.
http://lifehacker.com/emergency-sends-you-weather-alerts-for-multiple-us-ci-1699284234

Brad Panovich tweeted a Brian Kuntz photo of an incredible thunderstorm from Texas
https://twitter.com/wxbrad/status/587973939877412867/photo/1

Capitol Weather Gang had a set of photos from that same storm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/04/13/towering-thunderstorms-explode-in-texas-photos/

APOD has a video of an aircraft passing through the shadow of the eclipse
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150414.html

ESPOD with a hole punch cloud near Aubrey’s area of the country
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/04/hole-punch-cloud-over-christiansburg-virginia.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out.

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Fog Bank, April 13, 2015

A great cloud photo, taking from an airliner in flight. Thanks to Rob Herrin for RT from Sean
@rherrin828
@SkyDaver pic o the week via @Shwags_wxchaser don't even know if he knows what weather brains is but aviation and wx pic.twitter.com/h6VWUuh4Hw

APOD, with an eclipse picture
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150331.html

ESPOD with an Aurora seen in Northern Michigan
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/03/aurora-observed-over-northern-michigan.html

I ran across a photo on Twitter of a lightning bolt in a rainbow
https://twitter.com/SciencePorn/status/584779777120276480/photo/1

SPC Products Page:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/about.html#Severe

Jason Samenow writing about the new graphic for severe weather risk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/04/07/weather-service-develops-excellent-new-graphic-for-communicating-severe-weather-risk/

Steve Miller @stevemillerok, took AccuWeather to task for their criticism of the SPC after the March 25 tornado in Moore, OK. Crude language warning.
http://www.stevemillerok.com/2015/03/weather-company-flips-shit-over-its-own.html

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Fog Bank, April 6, 2015

In which Skydaver goes on a rant...

A nice winter sunset photo at ESPOD. JB would have loved this
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/03/glorious-winter-sunset.html

NOAA Weather Partners posted a video of tornado damage from the March 25 storm in Moore, OK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmiIhsGWd8c&feature=em-uploademail

They also have a video on the SPC Day 4-8 Convective Outlook changes that went into effect in December, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX3AWpmD_sc&feature=em-uploademail

The Memphis Weather blog had an interesting post back in February about disappearing snow
http://blog.memphisweather.net/2015/02/weather-mythbusters-disproving-urban.html



Finally, a short apology to Accuweather. Motorola Android phone have a nice widget called Command Center, that includes a weather button. That button, however, is often way out of date, showing sunshine after sunset, or rainy conditions, when it’s sunny out. When you press that button, the widget goes full screen, and that screen shows a tab that reads ‘accuweather.com’ I thought that portion of the widget was by Accuweather, but it isn’t. I apologize for ranting at Accuweather about that widget.

However … The Accuweather app isn’t anything they should be proud of.

First, it uses location services (which is fine) but way off on the address it shows. If they’re going to show an address, they should at least show the margin of error for the location. For me, they’re off by a full four streets, over 400 1000ft, and list an address that doesn’t even exist. Fix that, or just stop.
(2015-04-07 Edited info about location services to correct a mistake.)

Their minute cast is as bogus as their 45 day forecast. This morning, they told me that the rain that wasn’t falling would continue for another 47 minutes. Later on, they told me that rain would come in 75 minutes (which didn’t happen. Right now, I’m being told that rain will start in 97 minutes. This kind of faked accuracy helps no one. If you’re going to fake precision, why not tell me that the rain will start in 97 minutes, 37.45 seconds?

Accuweather, you didn’t deserve my scorn for the Command Central widget, but you deserve double for your crap app. You are damaging your brand.

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out.

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Fog Bank, March 30, 2015

Jim Cantore retweeted some very nice cloud photos on March 30,
https://twitter.com/JimCantore/status/582551671940780032
https://twitter.com/JimCantore/status/582551434459217920

ESPOD with snow crystals from February, in Maryland
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/03/snow-crystals-in-february-snowfalls.html

A short video about Nolan Doeskin, in his role as Colorado’s state climatologist
https://vimeo.com/107757748
He talks about CoCoRaHS in the video

There is, or will be very soon, a CoCoRaHS gauge in the vegetable garden at the White House. I’ve got the press release on my blog
https://m.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/citizen_science_backgrounder_march-23.pdf

Aurora photo, flag shaped aurora seen in Sweden,  from Astronomy Picture of the Day.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150330.html

There should be a link to the origins of the Fog Bank over on the right hand side of the blog page; I hope you like it.

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Fog Bank, March 23, 2015

Spaceweather.com noted the arrival of a large Coronal Mass Ejection, and the resulting aurora
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=17&month=03&year=2015

While we still have them, many of my picks will be Aurora photos. This one is from APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150319.html

And another pic, at spaceweather.com, of the St. Patrick’s Day geomagnetic storm.
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=19&month=03&year=2015

How about a double eclipse of the sun? As the eclipse of March 20 neared totality, a photographer caught the ISS transiting the sun as well. This is at Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150322.html

Spaceweather.com had a link to a nice video of the March 20 eclipse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=418Lf5VRd_Y

National Science Foundation youtube channel with a video about new radar systems that can track tornadoes & other severe weather with higher accuracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LnSmcrrJxw


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Fog Bank, March 16, 2015

The tornado shaped building proposed for Tulsa - looks pretty sketchy & stupid to me
http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/Tornado-shaped-building-propsed-for-Tulsa-skyline/31495008#.VPZRW28sdXg.twitter

Ice circles on a river, courtesy of ESPOD
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/03/ice-circles-on-the-gunpowder-river-maryland.html

Great Aurora photo at APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150310.html

Yet another Aurora photo - from Space Weather.com, with a tweeted photo from NASA.
https://twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts/status/574964801539018752/photo/1
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=03&year=2015
That Spaceweather.com page also had a great photo of M5-class eruption on the sun, captured from the Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Angela Fritz wrote at The Capital Weather Gang about the groundskeepers at Fenway Park and snow removal. They spread, by hand, two tons of black sand over the snow to help get it to melt faster and avoid damage that plowing or other removal methods might cause.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/03/10/fenway-park-groundskeepers-clear-the-snow-with-black-sand-brilliant/?utm_content=bufferc1fab&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

An interesting cloud photo from ESPOD, a smoke plume above a fog layer
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/03/smoke-plume-and-cloud-deck.html

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Fog Bank, March 2, 2015

Hello, Weather Brains listeners; You can find these links at skydaver.blogspot.com

Timeanddate.com has a nice chart to help with identifying all the timezones around the world
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/


NOAA Weather Partners has a new video in their Bite-size Science series: The FACETs Project.
FACET is an acronym for Forecasting A Continuum of Environmental Threats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDgwYoOLlWc

Spaceweather.com with a fairly unusual Aurora photo
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=01&month=03&year=2015

A lenticular cloud photobombs the moon, Mars & Venus at APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150302.html

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory picked up a solar flare this morning, and SpaceWeather.com has the photo
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=03&year=2015

LLAP


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Fog Bank, Feb. 23, 2015

CoCoRaHS will have a webinar Thursday, February 26, on Agricultural Meteorology. You can register for it and listen live, or find it on the CoCoRaHS page later.
http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk

NOAA uses new tech to measure the Washington monument
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/20160211-NOAA-study-uses-latest-technology-to-compute-updated-Washington-Monument-height.html

Mammatus clouds in Argentina
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/02/mammatus-clouds-over-rio-negro-argentina.html

Pileus cloud in Brazil. Does South America get all the cool clouds?
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/02/pileus-cloud-over-itanhaem-brazil.html

Great Aurora photos at speaceweather.com. They also show a photo depicting where the Auroras are appearing
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=02&year=2015

Jim Cantore “ThunderSnow autotuned”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzclOi3lGE4#t=22

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Fog Bank, February 9, 2015

Patton Oswalt, an actor & comedian that will be one of “oh, that guy” actors, send out a decent tweet last week “Snowmageddon”, Come on Twitter, we can do better than this. He had a few funny hashtags, and many of the responses were pretty good. My favorite was Ragnorocksalt One or two are NSFW, though.
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/559790341763522560

Cory Mccluskey of Fox10 in Phoenix had a little trouble with the display during his forecast on Jan27, but handled it pretty well.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=796174470431102

The ISS Science Director had a story on the use of the Rapid Scatterometer aboard the ISS, and its use during the recent nor’easter
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-measured-noreasters-powerful-winds-from-space/#.VMlNc154qYI

Capital Weather Gang had a great post about the forecast uncertainty for the storm of Jan. 27
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/01/27/why-the-snow-forecast-for-new-york-city-was-so-bad-and-what-should-be-done/

The New York Times had a good article about that forecast (I hope it isn't behind a paywall)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/science/snowstorms-forecasters-were-mostly-right.html

Multiple rainbows in Alaska, from ESPOD
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/02/multiple-alaskan-rainbows.html

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Fog Bank, January 26, 2015

Hello, everyone, lets get this started.

I’m going to use the Wayback machine to give a little background on how the Fog Bank came about. This is from Weather Brains episode 267, Pizza in the Cold


Google Earth Blog had a post about showing tornado damage using the historical imagery feature in Google Earth.
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/tornado-damage-in-google-earth.html

Jason Samenow posted at Capital Weather Gang, Lightning in the eye of Cyclone Bansi from the ISS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/01/18/electrifying-photo-lightning-and-the-gleaming-eye-of-cyclone-bansi-from-the-international-space-station/

Comet Lovejoy photos at ESPOD
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/01/comet-lovejoy-c2014-q2.html

NOAA Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research has an article on CalWater2015, an investigation into atmospheric rivers
http://research.noaa.gov/News/NewsArchive/LatestNews/TabId/684/artmid/1768/articleid/10995/Rivers-in-the-sky.aspx

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Fog Bank, January 19, 2015

Comet Lovejoy photos at ESPOD
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/01/comet-lovejoy-c2014-q2.html

ESPOD - Fog Bow
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/12/fogbow-over-sparta-greece.html

Courtesy of the Astronomy picture of the day, A winter solstice picture from Italy
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141221.html

Polar Stratospheric Clouds, from SpaceWeather.com
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=23&month=12&year=2014

NOAA’S Climate.gov website had a discussion on the drought in California. HT to Jen Henderson’s Weather Safety Daily newsletter for this:
http://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/it-poured-california-december-can-we-stop-talking-about-drought


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Fog Bank, January 14, 2015

I sent this in on Monday, but it didn't make it into the Wednesday special edition of the Fog Bank


My first pick comes from
NOAA Weather Partners with a video of highlights of the National Weather Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mSbKWMEVA&list=UUKvGDawHMafffeu4zV-Rs8g

I’m a little late with these, but I have two links about the solstice. The first comes from
ESPOD - Two solstice photos
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/12/winter-solstice-summer-solstice.html

and the Capital Weather Gang with 5 questions & answers about the winter solstice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/12/21/winter-begins-today-five-questions-and-answers-about-the-solstice/

The last two picks are also from
ESPOD with a nice shelf cloud photo
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/12/shelf-cloud-observed-over-quincy-massachusetts.html

ESPOD with Iridescent clouds
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/12/iridescent-clouds-over-pilesgrove-new-jersey.html

I’ll close with a request for Kevin … we need Matthew to do a cold weather PSA.


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Fog Bank, January 5, 2015

Happy New Year, Weather Brains listeners, This is David Phillips, skydaver on twitter.

ESPOD has a photo of an equinox from space
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/01/equinox-from-space.html

ESPOD again, with supernumerary bows
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/12/supernumerary-bows-observed-over-richmond-virginia.html

SpaceWeather.com for Dec. 3 has photos of noctilucent clouds over Antarctica
http://spaceweather.com/images2014/02dec14/current_daisy.png?PHPSESSID=0grd0dl34l3em55l9vg0oj7fc6

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?day=03&month=12&year=2014&view=view

From WDAZ, a video of an ice circle in the Cheyenne River, in North Dakota
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=552468648169459

ESPOD, with a fog chasing photo. from Mt. Tamalpais, above the fog
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/12/on-mount-tamalpais-above-the-fog.html

Thanks for listening
Skydaver out!

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