Fog Bank, April 1, 2013

From the Capital Weather Gang, a blog post on Confessions of a weather weenie.  At the time of the posting, they were asking for our stories, too

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/confessions-of-a-winter-weather-expert/2013/03/12/e089c346-8b1c-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_blog.html

The CoCoRaHS network message of the day for March 12 had a short discussion of CoCoRaHS and the NSLL's PING project

http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=mod&mod=1

NOAA Weather Partners has a new video from the National Severe Storms Lab about their radar research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1MUxphxYJs

Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 26 has a great Aurora photo

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130326.html

I ran across this photo on Twitter under a userid called Scienceporn. I've looked at their postings, and I'm pretty sure they're safe for work, or to show your grandma.  The photo is allegedly sunrise at the north pole, with a new moon.  I'm not certain that the photo hasn't been manipulated, but it is absolutely beautiful, regardless.

https://twitter.com/SciencePorn/status/316746426585600005/photo/1

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Fog Bank, March 12, 2013

Chuck Prevatte sent me the Birmingham Wiki page on James Spann, I think you'll enjoy it.

http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/James_Spann

James, is that birthday correct? For some reason, I thought you were a month younger than I am, but it turns out you're 11 months older … you ARE old!

Earth Science Picture of the day with a sun pillar in southwestern illinois

http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/02/sun-pillar-over-southwestern-illinois.html

Capital Weather Gang on the quality of the European forecast models

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/to-be-the-best-in-weather-forecasting-why-europe-is-beating-the-us/2013/03/08/429bfcd0-8806-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394_blog.html#pagebreak

Earth Observatory has some nice photos of the Texas snowfall 

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80603

The Number 6 Nationwide Race series team has a highly sophisticated weather station that they keep in their pit.  A picture was sent out on Twitter showing details

(HT to Chuck Prevatte)

https://twitter.com/Tbayne21/status/310075389152219137/photo/1

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Fog Bank, March 5, 2013

NASA Earth Observatory has a March Madness contest, voting for one of a set of pairs of earth images.
Check it out
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Madness/

SpaceWeather.com has a gallery of Aurora photos; the week of Feb 4 was apparently been very active
http://spaceweather.com/gallery/index.php?title=aurora&title2=lights

NOAA Weatherpartners has a new video of a videosonde balloon launch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyx08p0a7P0&feature=em-uploademail

WNIN radio in Evansville, IN, had a episode of their show "The Trend", with the subject of Weather Spotters
http://stitcher.com/s/player.php?AAKAAQLYQ&refid=asit

Another Aurora photo from Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130212.html

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Fog Bank, Feb. 11, 2013

Wow, in addition to missing several FogBanks, I've fallen way behind in posting them here.

Without further ado:


An article about a study using the attenuation of cell phone signal to measure rainfall
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/study-turns-cell-phone-towers-into-rain-gauges-15552

The Chief Hydrometeorologist from the UK Met Office writes about flood forecasting
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/barometer/people/2012-11/making-a-difference-together

Capital Weather Gang has a Facebook post about a litter of dogs intended to be raised as service dogs for our veterans.
All of the dogs have weather names, included Derecho
https://www.facebook.com/capitalweather/posts/464738866908789

Earth Science Picture of the Day, with a lightning strike photo
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/02/lightning-strike-in-brasilia-brazil.html

The NASA.gov website multimedia section featured a GOES-13 image of the Feb 9 Nor'easter
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2445.html

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Fog Bank, February 4, 2013

My picks for this week:


An article about a study using the attenuation of cell phone signal to measure rainfall
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/study-turns-cell-phone-towers-into-rain-gauges-15552

The Chief Hydrometeorologist from the UK Met Office writes about flood forecasting
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/barometer/people/2012-11/making-a-difference-together

Capital Weather Gang has a Facebook post about a litter of dogs intended to be raised as service dogs for our veterans.
All of the dogs have weather names, included Derecho
https://www.facebook.com/capitalweather/posts/464738866908789

Earth Science Picture of the Day, with a lightning strike photo
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/02/lightning-strike-in-brasilia-brazil.html

The NASA.gov website multimedia section featured a GOES-13 image of the Feb 9 Nor'easter
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2445.html

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Fog Bank, Jan. 28, 2013

A high speed, 3D camera to capture snowflakes as they fall
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2264666/The-high-tech-camera-snap-snowflakes-3D-fall--help-forecasters-better-predict-blizzards.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Snow Rollers in Vermont
https://plus.google.com/photos/110542479265736697332/albums/5836319661032226849?authkey=CO3Oyqjq65TGNw

Nate had heard of these, but I know these pictures aren't the ones everyone has seen.
I also have the Wikipedia article on them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_roller

Earth Science Picture of the Day had waterspouts in the Mediterranean
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/01/tornadic-waterspouts-off-the-island-of-rhodes-greece.html

The NC Climate office had a nice article about wind chill
http://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=11&h=c64cc35e

Jacob Wycoff posted a great photo
Gravity wave clouds and lake effect snow bands over the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast today. (via @NASA MODIS satellite)
https://twitter.com/4cast4you/status/294138779772534785/photo/1


Sent to JB
Double rainbows are nice, but how about a triple?  Earth Science Picture of the Day has one
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/01/triple-rainbows.html

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Fog Bank, Jan. 14, 2013

Hello, Weather Brains Listeners, this is David Phillips, Skydaver on Twitter & Google+.

Mike Moss sent YouTube video of the aftermath of the Grand Rapids, MI, tornado of April 3-5, 1956
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJo6VTW0MA

Forget fantasy football, this is Fantasy meteorology
http://wondermark.com/900/

A weatherblog, from @stratusstatus, a weather technology company started by two meteorology students,
@arthurnichols and @blakefoust
http://stratustatus.blogspot.com/

Mike Moss helps me out again, with a link to the announcement from the NWS Nat'l Center for Environmental Prediction hardware failure of the Model Analysis & Guidance website.
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/notice2.shtml

I'll close out with a picture of the Avengers (the actors, that is) spanning
Avengers Spanning

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