Tuesday, January 27, 2015

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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Thursday, January 15, 2015

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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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

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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