Fog Bank, Dec. 22, 2014

I think WeatherBrains 101 had sun dogs a few weeks ago.; Astronomy Picture of the Day had moon dogs
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141211.html

ESPOD with a nice lenticular cloud formation
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/12/lenticular-cloud-formation-above-volcan-de-agua.html

CoCoRaHS has announced a number of new webinars:
Webinar #37 - CoCoRaHS WxTalk: Tsunami Science and Tsunami Warning Systems
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2014

Greg Carbin of NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center, with “A Review of Significant Weather Events Occurring in  2014, Thursday Dec. 11

Thursday Jan 22, Simon Trautman, avalanche specialist with the US Forest Service “Avalanches in the US … In a Nutshell”

NOAA Satellites has a Flickr account now
https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaasatellites/

Guy walks into a bar and trailing behind is an old, mangy dog who promptly curls up in a corner and goes to sleep as the guy bellies up to the bar.
Bartender comes over and says "No dogs allowed in here, you'll have to put him outside."

Guy says "You can see he's an old dog. It's cold out there and I take him everywhere. If he can do a trick you like will you let him stay?"

Bartender says "Him do a trick? That I would like to see."

Guy goes up to the dog and yells “Hey, Navy beat Army". The dog's ears immediately come up, he pops up, jumps on the bar, does thirteen back flips, barks out the rhythm of Anchors Aweigh, jumps off the bar and promptly goes back to sleep in the corner.

Bartender says "That really is something - what does he do when Army beats Navy?"

Guy replies: " How would I know, he's just thirteen years old!"

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!



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Fog Bank, Nov. 24, 2014

Earth Science Picture of the Day
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/11/undulatus-asperatus-cloud-observed-over-guatemala.html

Dr. Shephard’s WeatherGeeks this week was great, talking about the polar vortex.

@brendanloy had some fantastic scathing tweets about the stupidity that emanated from NY Gov. Cuomo’s mouth after the Buffalo snowstorm.

NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Laboratory has some great tools to play around with.
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/

The British Antarctic Survey published a study of Antarctic sea ice done via a robotic submarine that used an upward looking sonar
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=2839

Not sure who first put this out on Twitter, but it’s a fantastic photo, I think from the Canary Islands, fog spilling out of an elevated valley
https://twitter.com/NEweatherHQ/status/535873427006304257/photo/1
Skydaver out!



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Fog Bank, Nov. 17, 2014

Wow, I've fallen behind, and missed a bunch.  With no further ado, the Nov. 17 Fog Bank

APOD for Oct. 29 of iridescent clouds over Colorado.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141029.html

Great aurora video at space weather.com
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=29&month=10&year=2014

ESPOD with a photo of a rainbow taken from aloft
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/11/rainbow-from-aloft.html

Space.com has a photo of the Astronomy picture of the year
http://www.space.com/27197-astronomy-photo-contest-winners.html?adbid=533451340744105984&adbpl=tw&adbpr=15431856&cmpid=514648_20141115_35646847

Since it's so darn cold this week, I thought I'd close with the website for the National Snow & Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/


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Fog Bank, October 20, 2014

Eric Fisher, Chief Met. for CBS in Boston, has a nice article on technology & tornado identification
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/why-some-of-the-mystery-is-gone/

Astronomy Picture of the day gets two slots, with a short video of  sprite lightning in slow motion.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141013.html

and an Auroral corona picture taken in Norway, from Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141014.html


An oldie, but goodie. From April 25, 2013, NOAA's Weather Ready Nation news on Dual Polarization Radar
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/weatherreadynation/news/130425_dualpol.html#.VDx4wNR4ru5

I'll close with two links from ESPOD.

ESPOD again with lenticular clouds over the Andes
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/10/lenticular-clouds-over-the-southern-andes.html

ESPOD has a photo of a roll cloud in Brazil
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/10/morning-glory-over-southeastern-brazil.html

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Fog Bank, October 13, 2014

Jesse Ferrell had a great set of photos of asperatus clouds over NYC
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/incredible-nyc-asperatus-clouds-this-morning/34907758

CoCoRaHS has a webinar coming up October 23, on atmospheric rivers. The webinar will be recorded and available for later viewing.
http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk

NASA offers a mailing list to get science updates from the ISS lead scientist.
https://lists.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/iss-program-science-group

The National Snow & Ice Data Center published their 2014 arctic melt season review
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2014/10/2014-melt-season-in-review/

Spaceweather.com has a very nice gallery of photos of the lunar eclipse
http://spaceweathergallery.com/eclipse_gallery.html

CIMSS_Satellite tweeted a picture of the Blood moon from the GOES East satellite
https://twitter.com/CIMSS_Satellite/status/519918104923881473

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Fog Bank, Oct. 6, 2014

I'll start this week with a photo of a fog bank, from Earth Science Picture of the Day
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/10/the-fog-rolls-in.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day with a full circle rainbow
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140930.html

@NOAASatellites tweeted about National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and the Deep Space Climate Observatory, DSCOVR. The satellite is going out to the earth-sun Lagrange 1 point, about 1 million miles from Earth, and will monitor solar activity.
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/index.html

Tony Rice commented on pictures of the Milky Way. How about a picture of the Milky Way just before the sun rises over the Sahara, taken from the ISS?
http://www.nasa.gov/content/milky-way-viewed-from-the-international-space-station/#.VCxYQ-fc0Qg

A great aurora picture taken in Norway
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/10/auroral-corona-over-hemnesberget-norway.html

I sent out a tweet at the start of the show with my solution for watching The Weather Channel on a television .. Here it is:

Bonus link --- the polar vortex
http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2014/10/05

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Fog Bank, Sept. 29, 2014

I really should have numbered these ...

Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, this is David Phillips, skydaver on Twitter

Astronomy Picture of the Day, with a photo of the Aurora & volcanic light pillar
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140923.html

Earth Observatory had a great photo and discussion of Clouds & Dust over the Sahara, taken from the ISS.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84400&src=eoa-iotd

ESPOD has some great rainbow photos on Sept. 27.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/09/the-span-of-a-rainbow.html

I've got a comic about the science news cycle I think you'll like
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174

A few final, short, comments on the WeatherGeeks show on The Weather Channel. Dr. Shepard. A+. Guests, A+ (you were great, James, can't wait to see next week) Graphics … makes me think of a bad Geocities web site.

Thanks for listening, Skydaver Out

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