Wednesday, February 25, 2015

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


Audio Fog Bank

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

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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