Fog Bank, May 14, 2012

Welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping JB fog horn free.  Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, and circle me on Google+

First up, Bryan Wood sent in an article about Storm chasing from the Columbia, MO, Daily Tribune
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/22/on-trail-tornadoes/?news

The second pick is an article from Wired on ten years of MODIS images from the Aqua satellite.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/aqua-satellite-anniversary/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru

It includes links to high resolution versions of the images for your downloading pleasure.

The third pick is a video of tornado damage in Nassau, Bahamas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BgTEoQ2YMY&feature=youtu.be

Next up,  a series of pictures showing the green flash at sunset
https://twitter.com/#!/alshaymaa1413/status/195475732204498944/photo/1

I'll close out this week with a website, still in demonstration stage, but it looks like it will be interesting.  A 'Young Meteorologist' game:
http://www.youngmeteorologist.org/

Thanks for listening, Skydaver, out.

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Fog Bank, May 7, 2012

Welcome to the Fog Bank, rising to the Kevin Selle challenge.

Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to March 10, 2011 (you'll have to listen to the audio to hear Kevin's Challenge.


Here we go.
Pick number one, a Washington Post article about a ribbon in a thunderstorm.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tornado-scientists-are-surprised-to-find-ribbon-in-thunderstorm-data/2012/04/30/gIQAcx2AsT_story.html

Pick number two is a Twitter picture sent to the @cloudappsoc
https://twitter.com/#!/TylerDurden921/status/191571473675206657/photo/1

Pick number three is from the UK Meteorology office with an explanation of lighting and thunder
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/why-are-we-getting-thunder-and-lightning/

Pick number four is a blog post from Bryan Wood about the FEMA Disaster declaration process
http://www.miamivalleywx.com/2012/04/22/fema/

My fifth pick is from the Twitter account for the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies posted a nice example of overshooting tops and concentric gravity waves radiating outward along the thunderstorm anvil top.  Their Twitter handle is @CIMSS_Satellite
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/120506_g13_vis_KS_MO_anim.gif


Thanks for listening, Skydaver, out.

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Fog Bank, April 30, 2012

Whoops, I fell behind in my updates.
There was no Fog Bank for April 23; I was travelling.


Hello WeatherBrains listeners, this is the Fog Bank, trying to keep JB fog horn free.  I had sent him a link for April 16, but he wasn't on, and he didn't use it on the 23rd.

Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, and send me your picks for the Fog Bank.

First up:
From Earth Science Picture of the Day, Glaciating Cirrus Clouds, near Asheville, NC
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/04/glaciating-cirrus-clouds.html

Second, From the NSSL, an article on their phased array tests this spring
https://secure.nssl.noaa.gov/briefings/2012/04/phased-array-radar-spring-2012-projects/

Third, A photo from Mike Hollingshead of a supercell & lightning at a truck stop in Nebraska
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stock/storms%20supercells%20with%20lightning/slides/ssl-f4232.html

Fourth,
A satellite photo posted by Brad Panovich of a rope of clouds along the outflow boundary of a front.
https://plus.google.com/photos/115333506137843021021/albums/5732001758065595825/5732001755287018162

And I'll close out with a entry at Earth Science Picture of the Day,
Fiery Sunset over Cadiz, Spain.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/04/fiery-sunset-over-cadiz-spain.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!

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Fog Bank, April 16, 2012

Hello WeatherBrains listeners, this is David Phillips, @skydaver on Twitter, keeping picks of the week foghorn free for JB.  Is Brian Peters going to need our help, too?


We'll open up with another Earth Science Picture of the Day, a Circumzenithal Arc
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/04/circumzenital-arc-and-more-observed-over-florida-panhandle.html

I found a website devoted to atmospheric optics
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/

A rainbow over Charlotte, NC.  This is a professional photographer, and he's selling this print
http://chrisaustin.artistwebsites.com/featured/rainbow-over-charlotte-chris-austin.html

A family finds and returns a NWS radiosonde
http://www.gazettevirginian.com/index.php/news/community/51/5358#.T4XyIPsfvmw.twitter


A lightning strike on the San Francisco Bay Bridge
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129246/Once-lifetime-picture-lightning-striking-San-Franciscos-Bay-Bridge.html?ITO=socialnet-twitter-mailonline


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Fog Bank, April 9, 2012

Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB.
Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, or circle me on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

The National Hurricane Center has an interactive storm surge map
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ssurge/risk/

Chuck Prevatte sent a link to a story on how Social Media is Changing Disaster Response
http://mashable.com/2012/04/09/social-media-disaster-response-government/

The Capital Weather Gang has commentary on the National Weather Service budget cuts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/national-weather-service-budget-cuts-misguided-misplaced/2012/03/29/gIQAmm6qiS_blog.html

A youtube video, Paul Schlatter from NOAA, on using Dual-Pol radar to detect tornados
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWPltFHRAA

Jeff Gammons put a nice video of a small thunderstorm up on his website
http://stormvisuals.com/florida-weather/2012/4/5/timelapse-video-of-pulse-breeze-storm-on-boundary.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!

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Fog Bank, April 2, 2012

Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB.
Send me your picks here, or on Twitter, where I'm @Skydaver.

Last year, the National Hurricane Center published a proposal on a minor change in wind speeds for various categories of hurricanes.  For this season, that proposal has been put in place.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/20120301_pis_sshws.php

The second pick is an amateur photo of the plumes from the ATREX jetstream experiment
http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/j/Jack-Fusco-jackfuscoatrexFacebook_1332845787.jpg

Third is an amazing depiction, in real time, of the winds in the US.  It takes a while to load, so be patient.  It probably should be viewed in Chrome.
http://hint.fm/wind/

Brad Panovich sent out a twit pic of an interesting visible satellite image on March 28
http://twitpic.com/92gysf


The CoCoRaHS March Madness outcome has been released, with North Carolina  & North Dakota being the winners.

In the "traditional count" category (sheer number of new observers), North Carolina (138) wins a close one over Texas (134) to take the cup for the second consecutive year. They are followed by Michigan (46), South Carolina (45) and Tennessee (41).

In the "population weighted-per capita" category, North Dakota (55.01) wins the CoCoRaHS Cup. The Peace Garden State is followed by South Dakota (31.93), North Carolina (14.47), South Carolina (9.73) and Oklahoma (9.33) in the standings.

To view the final standings for all the states and learn more about our contest, visit our March Madness webpage by clicking here: "http://cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=marchmadness".

Thanks to all of you who have mentioned the network to a family member or friend! With your help we have recruited a new March Madness record 859 new volunteer observers in March!

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!

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Spanning the Globe:

This one is especially for James:

Aubie, the Auburn Tiger mascot, spanning:

http://t.co/ZQ0tbSsL

A Spann fan, spanning from atop the Empire State Building

pic.twitter.com/PTqpUbEN

James Proctor, Spanning

https://twitter.com/#!/Proctard/status/185194518113558528/photo/1

A young Spanner, Andrew 

pic.twitter.com/VF9ltbh3

Fog Bank, March 26, 2012

Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB.

Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather has interesting stuff in his blog, weathermatrix.  On March 15, he shows radar ducting picking up echoes off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/radar-ducting-catches-chesapeake-bridge/62811

If you ever get tired of Aurora pictures, stop listening to the Fog Bank.  Astronomy Picture of the Day has a very nice one, from Iceland, taken March 17, 2012
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120321.html

An explanation of the marine layer, from the NWS Jetstream website
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/ocean/marine.htm

From the National Severe Storms Laboratory, a background report on the Warn on Forecast project
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/news/backgrounders/WoF%202011.pdf

NASA has an upcoming mission to study very high level jet stream winds.  They will be launching 5 rockets, 5 minutes apart, from Wallops Island, with camera sites watching the plumes from North Carolina and New Jersey.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-nightlight.html

Send me your picks for the Fog Bank, and send me your pictures of you Spanning, I'll post them in the blog.  We can call it Spanning the Globe.  Here's mine:

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