Thursday, May 30, 2013

Fog Bank, May 27, 2013


The first pick is from the NASA image of the day on May 22 with a MODIS satellite image of the storm that caused the tornado in Moore, OK
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2513.html

Brad Panovich posted a link to a NASA SPoRT blogpost about lightning activity just before the Oklahoma tornados.
http://nasasport.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/total-lightning-perspective-of-the-moore-oklahoma-supercell/
I haven't found out yet what the SPoRT acronym means.

I've got the commentary from the NWS office in La Crosse, Wisconsin, about the May 19 storms
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=may1913

From GoogleEarthPics, FIre Rainbows over Kansas
https://twitter.com/GoogleEarthPics/status/336286774080987137/photo/1

Tornado Titans posted a very nice photo of a supercell on the Oklahoma/Kansas border
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=472012569535936&set=a.118272271576636.18272.118195624917634&type=3&l=94a709ad84&permPage=1

The NY Times had an article about the Oklahoma tornados
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/racing-the-clock-and-a-storm-a-way-of-life-in-tornado-alley.html?_r=0

I found an interactive map that shows before & after aerial pictures of Moore, OK.  You can move the point of view, and find the edges of the tornado's path.
http://tmappsevents.esri.com/website/swipe_moore/

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Fog Bank, May 13, 2013


NOAA sent out a press release on one of the instruments to be places on the GOES-R next generation weather satellites.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20130502_goesr.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day (yes … astronomy) had a fantastic picture of a supercell storm from Montana
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130505.html

The National Weather Service office in Pocatello, ID, had a press release on a gust front storm, or gustnado, that occurred there last week
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/FXC/wxstory.php?wfo=pih&img=2&size=1

Richard Foreman, @thewxobserver, posted a pic of someone that sort of looks like Nate Johnson
https://twitter.com/thewxobserver/status/333926237942730753/photo/1

From WDRB, video and story about a massive ice floe coming ashore in Minnesota
http://fox41blogs.typepad.com/wdrb_weather/2013/05/video-of-massive-ice-floe-damaging-homes-in-minnesota.html


Thanks for listening, Skydaver, out

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Fog Bank, May 6, 2013


My first pick is from Earth Science Picture of the day, showing multiple light pillars in the clouds.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/04/multiple-light-pillars.html

KARE 11 in Minnesota showed a short video of Ice Chandeliering,
http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1023782/396/Strange-ice-phenomena-unfolds-at-Minn-lake

NOAA Weather Partners' Severe Weather Blog has a post by Harold Brooks about the tornado numbers over the last 12 months
http://www.norman.noaa.gov/2013/05/low-tornado-numbers-and-low-tornado-deaths-may-2012-april-2013/

Fourth pick comes from Kyle Issac, on Google+, with me a link to Nick Kosir, the rapping Weatherman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZhpGCVr1A&list=UURZVxIpIbf6iLTU0e5MLyHA&index=2

Chuck Prevatte sent me an article from The Columbian newspaper, in Vancouver, Washington, about weather spotters.
http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/may/04/local-weather-spotters-first-line-of-defense/

Thanks for listening,
Skydaver out!



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