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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