Fog Bank for Jan. 30, 2012

Hello Weatherbrains listeners, this is David Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC, keeping picks of the week foghorn free for JB.  Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, and circle me on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

Google Earth blog has announced public alerts on Google maps
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/01/public-alerts-now-on-google-maps.html

USA Today has an article about the installation of dual-polarization radars
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/story/2012-01-17/national-weather-service-new-radar-system/52746738/1

An article from The Weather Channel on the drought to deluge in Texas
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/texas-rainfall-wet-dry-extremes_2012-01-25

Chuck Prevatte sent in a link to the NWS on how to submit significant storm reports via Twitter
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/stormreports/

Capital Weather Gang discussion of the physics of the Jan 2011 storm that caused the massive commuter problems
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2011/01/what_made_wednesdays_storm_spe.html

newton21989 sent me a link to theweatherspace.com, with commentary on the cancellation of Storm Chasers.
http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-12612-discovery-storm-chasers-cancelled.html



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Fog Bank for Jan. 23, 2012

Hello everyone, this is Dave Phillips, skydaver on Twitter.  You can follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, or circle me on Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver

My first pick is a post from the Capital Weather Gang with a list of the top five surprise winter storms in DC.
Number 1, the President's day storm of 1979.  I was an officer in the US Navy, going to Diving school at the Washington Navy Yard, when that storm hit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/washington-dcs-top-5-surprise-snowstorms/2012/01/16/gIQAPwOoAQ_blog.html

Pick number 2 comes from Brad Panovich who sent out a tweet with a link to spaceweather.com.  They have some great pictures of nacreous clouds, taken in Sweden
http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=GApran-Strand-GS_20120113_Nacreous_0023_1326482881.jpg

Third, from the NOAA main page, an article on how space weather affects realtime technology
http://www.noaa.gov/features/01_economic/spaceweather_2.html

The fourth pick is an article by Kansas University meteorologists on La Nina & dry weather in Kansas
http://www.kansan.com/news/2012/jan/17/meteorology-winter/

Finally, the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory has a real time page that lets you download an mp4 file of the previous three days of images
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/RealTime.php

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Fog Bank for Jan 16, 2012

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On to the Fog Bank!

From the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory, the storm over the Tennessee Valley, Jan. 11
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=927&MediaTypeID=1#.Tw3-59OA6Fk.twitter


National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center has an animation of this year's
snow depth.
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/js_animate.html?ts=24&year=2012&month=1&day=16&type=nsm_depth&region=National

Their home page has a lot of tools, and looks like it's worth some time
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov

Accuweather has a writeup on the storm heading for Seattle and the Upper Cascades
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/substantial-snow-headed-for-se/60306

NOAA is sending aircraft out over the Pacific to gather extra data for forecasting this storm
http://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/NOAA-using-extra-measures-to-decipher-potential-snowstorm-for-Tuesday-137391618.html

Scott Sabol has a blog entry on the various indices that drive our winter weather
http://sabolscience.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-is-driving-our-not-so-cold-winter.html

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Fog Bank for Jan. 10, 2012

Hello WeatherBrains listeners, this is the Fogbank.  I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC.  Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, or Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

First up, the NASA Goddard Space center sent out a link to an interesting shadow of jet contrails on a layer of cirrus clouds
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz724.htm

Second, the National Weather Service has a new Twitter feed, @usNWSgov

Chuck Prevatte sent in a link for an online course about community hurricane preparedness
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is324a.asp

Fourth, from Astronomy Picture of the Day, a picture of a circumhorizon arc, or fire rainbow
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090512.html

Finally, the Capital Weather Gang posted about the difficulties of snow forecasting, and why the forecast for the Jan. 9 snow in DC was so wrong
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/the-overachieving-snowfall-of-january-9-2012/2012/01/10/gIQAloF4nP_blog.html

Tune in next week.

Skydaver, out!

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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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