Fog Bank for Jan 3, 2012

Happy New Year, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips.  Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, or Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

The first pick for the New Year comes from the Earth Science Picture of the Day, with two nice examples of virga
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/12/virga-and-rainfall-traces.html

The second pick is from the BBC, with a story about lenticular clouds in Yorkshire, England.  Apparently, they're not that common in that region. You have to wait past their commercial to see it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16309120

Third, the UK MetOffice @metoffice, posted a time lapse video of the lenticular clouds in Yorkshire
http://bit.ly/tM0p2U
They also posted their cloud information page
 http://bit.ly/tDF8ol

Fourth, Jeff Haby at Mississippi State has 'The Ultimate Weather Education Center'
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/
Thanks to Chuck Prevatte for that pick.

Finally, I have "The Snow Booklet", from Colorado State University Dept. of Atmospheric Studies
http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/pdfs/snowbook.pdf

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Fog Bank for Dec. 19, 2011

Fog Bank for Dec. 19, 2011
Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, and you can find me on Twitter, @Skydaver, and Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver


A youtube video of the story of CoCoRahs - was posted on the Facebook page of NWS, Great Falls, MT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHmz5IyjV80&feature=player_detailpage

NASA has put GOES-15 into service as GOES West, taking GOES-11 out of service after 12 years in orbit.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GOES-P/news/goes-15-active.html

On Earth Science Picture of the Day, Friday Dec. 16, a waterspout & rainbow in the same picture
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/12/waterspout-and-rainbow-odd-couple.html

Justin Kenney, NOAA director of communications (@JustinNOAA) , posted NOAA's recap of 2011
http://www.noaa.gov/extreme2011/index.html


Capital Weather Gang reminisces about Snowpocalypse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/two-years-ago-washington-dc-crippled-by-snowpocalypse/2011/12/19/gIQAFwyV4O_blog.html

I'll close with a special shout out to my weathergeek buddy, Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006.  This one isn't weather related, and isn't even a link.
Army 21 - Navy 27
Navy, unbeaten by Army in the last 10 games, and leads the series, 56-49-7

Skydaver, out!



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Fog Bank, Dec. 12, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, and you can find on Twitter, @skydaver, and on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

I'm fighting a cold this week, so I hope the audio isn't too bad

The Astronomy Picture of the Day has a picture of the last partial solar eclipse, from Nov. 25
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111202.html

CoCoRaHS, has a video from the NWS on how to measure snow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzWFhbO_NNg

From NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Services, their Total Precipitable Water model
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/bTPW/TPW_Animation.html?product=CONUS_TPW

From Dr. Gray & Dr. Klotzbach, at Colorado State, a paper titled 'Qualitative Discussion of Atlantic Basin Seasonal Hurricane Activity for 2011'
http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/forecasts/2011/dec2011/dec2011.pdf

Jim Loznicka, jimwxgator on Twitter, of WJHG in Panama City, FL, posted this to Twitter on Dec. 7.
Mystery cloud formation of the day.  Calling all mets to help decipher what caused this huge cloud hole near Bermuda!  http://twitpic.com/7pvgjt
Brad Panovich posted another look at the same cloud
http://wxbrad.com/?p=2446

Thanks for listening, Skydaver, out!

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Fog Bank, Dec. 5, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, Welcome to the Fog Bank, Picks of the week responding to the Kevin Selle challenge.

I'm Dave Phillips.  I'm on Twitter, http://www.twitter.com/skydaver, and Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

My first pick is from Chuck Prevatte, with link about things being discovered in lakes that have evaporated in the Southwest drought
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/20/as-drought-continues-depleted-texas-lakes-expose-ghost-towns-graves/

Brad Panovich blogged about plans for a backyard snowmaker
http://wxbrad.com/?p=2399

Bill McMillan, @wxmanbill, and the staff of IndyWx.com, have a weather blog for central Indiana, and this pick is called "The southeast ridge, a love hate relationship"
http://www.indywx.com/2011/12/01/the-southeast-ridge-a-love-hate-relationship/

I never get tired of Aurora pictures, so my fourth pick is two of them, one from SpaceWeather.com, and one from the Astronomy picture of the Day
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2011
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111205.html



I'll close with a neat picture on Twitter from Stu Ostro, of the Pineapple Express, a moisture plume running from hawaii to Alaska
pic.twitter.com/NnKR21W3

Wait, there's a bonus pick:
There will be a total eclipse of the moon on December 10, visible to most of the earth.  If I'm reading the chart correctly, only South America, the far eastern portion of the Caribbean  and part of Africa will not be able to see the eclipse.
The pick is a discussion on the NASA eclipse website, from the Goddard Space Flight Center
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2011.html#LE2011Dec10T

If anyone is counting (Kevin Selle), that is seven picks of the week.

Skydaver, out!

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Fog Bank, Nov. 21, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, I'm on Twitter, @skydaver, and Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver

My first pick is from the US Geological Service, a set of Google Earth files for  stream data, refreshed every hour.
http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/kml.html

Next, WB listener Dan Goff, @wxdan, gets a mention in a Richmond VA Times Dispatch article about the Virginia Tech Meteorology major
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/nov/11/meteorology-new-major-being-offered-virginia-tech-ar-1447913/

My third pick is from NASA Jet Propulsion Labs, SciJinks, a website with lots of educational links
http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov//

Fourth, NOAA Climate Services has a discussion of the flooding in the Missouri river valley earlier this spring
http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2011/missouri-river-flood-drama-likely-took-direction-from-la-nina

Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006, sent in a link from Accuweather about new storm hunter aircraft
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/57923/fighter-jet-being-transformed.asp
I'm not going to spoil it.

I'll be traveling all week, and won't have a chance to record a Fogbank in time for the show.  I may have one posted on next Tuesday.

Thanks for listening, Skydaver Out!

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Fog Bank, November 14, 2011

Apologies for being so late with this week's Fogbank.
You can find me on Twitter, @skydaver, or on Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver.

Help me keep Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB Elliott.  Send me interesting weather stuff, and I'll put it into the Fog Bank (or send it to JB)


First up,  an animated gif from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
 showing the development of a rare tropical cyclone in the Mediterranean Sea
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/111006-08_met9_ir_anim.gif
This storm beat the heck out of the Volvo Ocean 70s trying to get to the Atlantic from Alicente, Spain.  One boat broke open its bow, another broke its mast.
The Twitter handle for CIMSS @CIMSS_Satellite

Brad Panovich posted his winter outlook for the Carolinas in his blog.
http://wxbrad.com/?p=2081

The NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory (I think I'd been calling it Earth Visualization) has this picture of the Bering Straight Storm
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=885&MediaTypeID=1

Some pictures of the rain gauge that I setup to participate in COCORAHS
http://picasaweb.google.com/skydaver/cocorahs

Along with the rain gauge,  WeatherYourWay (suppliers of the COCORAHS gauge) sent some nice posters along with the gauge
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/brochures/cloudchart.pdf
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/posters/clouds/NOAA-NASA-CloudChart.pdf

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Fog Bank, November 7, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, and you can find me on Twitter, @skydaver, and on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

Leading off tonight, a time lapse video from a Weather Channel watcher, of his backyard during the Oct 29th storm.
http://iwitness.weather.com/_Snow-Storm-October-29-30/video/1654200/148597.html?as=148597

The second pick is by Dr. Greg Forbes, from the Weather Channel, with an article on the 'Second Season' for tornadoes.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/second-season-tornadoes_2011-10-26

The third pick is from The Capital Weather Gang with their outlook for this winter in DC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/washington-dc-winter-weather-forecast-2011-2012/2011/11/02/gIQAHXChiM_blog.html

Fourth, a website called Aurora Max. They have a live broadcast of the Aurora, from Yellowknife, North West Territories, Canada
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/auroramax/default.asp

Finally, Ben Holcomb has a youtube video of a shelf cloud at Grand Haven, Michigan, 7/18/2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOVwlfrKN2g

Thanks for listening,  Skydaver out!

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