Fog Bank, July 8, 2013

Hello Weather Brains listeners, this is David Phillips.  You can find the Fog Bank at skydaver.blogspot.com.  Send me your links @skydaver on Twitter

I should have double checked the picture I sent for JB last week.  I was wondering if it was legitimate when I first saw it.

Jim Loznicka @jimwxgator posted a great Florida shelf cloud.
This is a SWEET view of an east coast FLA shelf cloud! RT @vicmicolucci: storms @ Neptune Beach, FL instagram.com/p/bMU_hQONrP/

NOAA Weather Partners had a video about a new tool from NSSL to help emergency responders pinpoint damage immediately after a tornado.
http://youtu.be/A_BYNuGDjy8

I've got a photo of Noctilucent clouds in Alberta, CA, from Spaceweather.com
http://spaceweather.com/gallery/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=83732

Earth Science Picture of the day with a line of Cirrus clouds
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/07/cirrus-clouds-above-woodinville-washington.html

Tis the season for noctilucent clouds … Earth Science Picture of the Day again, from Scotland
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/07/noctilucent-clouds-over-scotland.html

Thanks for listening,
Skydaver out.

Pick sent to JB
Jason Samenow, Chief Meteorologist for the Capital Weather Gang has an article about children left in hot cars.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/07/08/children-left-in-hot-cars-a-deadly-combination-that-must-stop/

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Fog Bank, July 1, 2013

Hello everyone, this is David Phillips.  I'll have these links at my blog, skydaver.blogspot.com

First up, The Los Angeles Times had a story about the possible record heat in Death Valley, Sunday, June 30, 2013
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-heat-wave-death-valley-hits-128-degrees-or-is-it-129-20130630,0,6477803.story

My second pick is the Astronomy Picture of the Day with a time-lapse video created by Mike Olbinski, showing a supercell thunderstorm over Booker, TX, June 3, 2013
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130618.html

Third, I have a picture of my solution to the problem of birds fouling my CoCoRaHS gauge.  Bamboo cooking skewer cut into short lengths, and taped onto the funnel
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos?pid=5890858103633061202&oid=110542479265736697332


APOD again for my fourth pick, with more noctilucent clouds
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130627.html

Finally, another great cloud photo from Earth Science Picture of the Day with iridescent Pileus clouds
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/06/pileus-with-iridescence.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!

The pick sent to JB:

On Twitter, @EarthPix posted: This is what happens when lightning strikes sand. pic.twitter.com/SCM17FMrWD

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Fog Bank, June 10, 2013

First up,
Earth Science Picture of the Day for May 29 had photos of lightning at the Eiffel tower
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/05/the-eiffel-lightning-rod.html

Second, The Capital Weather Gang had an article with great photos of super cells in the plains
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/05/30/the-stormy-plains-awesome-supercell-structure-and-a-big-tornado-photos/

My third pick is  discussion of the 'without warning' kerfuffle from Sean Sublette, of WSET-TV in Roanoke, VA
http://seansublette.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/without-warning-and-other-sociological-kerfuffles-that-come-with-tornadoes/

Fourth Chuck Prevatte sent a link to a Fox Business interview with Michael Eilts of Weather Decision Technologies, in which the iPhone weather radio app was mentioned.
http://fxn.ws/11aePhF  
I want to know when the Android version will be released?
(Harold Brooks sent me a post; the Android version IS out.  You can find it at the Google Play store. What you cannot find is a link or comment imapweather.com to the Android version.)
Chuck also sent me a comment about Nate's Digital Meteorologist post.  He said I have never storm chased, but at least after 24 years as a tanker, I know to get out of the way of the enemy.

I'll close with an image from the NASA image of the day.   A false color infrared photo of central Oklahoma, showing the track of the Newcastle-Moore tornado
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2524b.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out.

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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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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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Fog Bank, April 29, 2013

First up, A great photo of a sun halo from (you guessed it) Earth Science Picture of the Day
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/04/eye-in-the-sky-over-delta-utah.html

There was a lot of rain in the South East on Sunday, April 28.  It was enough to keep me off the golf course!  NWS Raleigh posted a picture on Twitter with observed totals.  My home is up in the middle of the numbers in the upper left; I also had 1.38" (I need to see if I qualify to be an observer for that office)
https://twitter.com/NWSRaleigh/status/328863033084502017/photo/1

My third pick is the CoCoRaHS blog with a post about that same system, bringing rain to Texas & Tennessee
http://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2013/04/soaking-rain-in-tennessee-and-texas.html

WeatherBug posted a link to a chart showing snow totals in Colorado this year, remarking on the April numbers, especially.
http://ow.ly/i/1ZLO7

The best Twitter forecast this morning (April 29) comes from  Bryan McCormick @bmccormick_wx
Pop your collar and wear your favorite brightly-colored spandex pants because the 80s are back in Region 8! #ARwx twitpic.com/cmu1wa

If JB doesn't have another pick, he can have this,
The Cryosphere today, a website with a huge amount of information about the polar ice coverage
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

Thanks for listening, Skydaver Out!

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