Fog Bank, August 12, 2013

Welcome to the Fog Bank, everyone. Please follow me on Twitter, @skydaver.

First up,Jason Samenow of the Capital Weather Gang rips AccuWeather to shreds about their 45 day so-called 'forecast'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/08/06/accuweather-you-cannot-be-serious-new-45-day-forecasts/

I had the Accuweather app on my phone, and when it gave current conditions that were totally inaccurate, I removed it.
If they can't get current conditions correct, how can they do 45 days?

Second,
SpaceWeather.com had an article about Red Sprites, a very high altitude electrical storms
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=08&year=2013

Third, The WeatherNation Facebook page had a picture of thunderstorms taken from the International Space Station
https://www.facebook.com/WeatherNation/posts/10151806752209874

The next pic came from Karen Nyberg, currently a resident aboard the international space station. She put a picture on Twitter of an clound formation she liked.
Karen L. Nyberg@AstroKarenN 5:50 PM 26 Jul
Never tire of finding shapes in the clouds! These look very botanical to me. Simply perfect. July 26. pic.twitter.com/57v8LQG0Rk

I'll close with a picture from the MODIS satellite of cloud streets over the Bering Sea.
http://www.nasa.gov/content/cloud-streets-over-the-bering-sea/#.UfaLoVNIjss

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out.

sent to JB
A webpage from a French storm chaser, showing some very nice lightning & cloud photos from a storm on July 26, 2013
http://www.keraunos.org/actualites/chasseurs-orages/saison-2013/chasse-aux-orages-des-26-juillet-thibault-cormier.html


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Fog Bank, August 5, 2013

Hello fellow weather geeks, this is Dave Phillips. Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver. Tell your friends to follow me, too.

First pick is a bunch of different lightning photos, Capital Weather Gang, Reed Timmer, and the Great Falls and Albequerque offices of the NWS

Capital Weather Gang retweeted a great lightning photo from Kerri Patton@Kerri_lane 11:47 AM
Summer Storm over my home pic.twitter.com/DOCTmgtJgc

A composite photo of lightning strikes, from the Great Falls Montana NWS office
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=569746493067571&set=a.197469093628648.50125.194560663919491&type=1&theater

Another lightning photo, this one posted on the NWS Albuquerque
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=586436091379386&set=a.202185579804441.44214.199245073431825&type=1&theater

Josh Alecci (@aleccijosh) tweeted a link from Reed Timmer of a lightning strike video in very close proximity to the camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQiIL69RdAc&feature=youtu.be&a

My second pick comes from Anthony Sagliani, a thunderstorm picture from Denver Digital Photography on Facebook.  Anthony wrote "Real, or manipulated?"
http://twitter.com/anthonywx/status/359147946308153344/photo/1

That sets up my third  pick, an article from the Capital Weather Gang about false weather photos in social media
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/08/05/snuffing-out-social-medias-fake-weather-photos/

Fourth, From the Earth Observatory twitter account, @NASA_EO, a picture from the Terra/MODIS satellite of a dust storm off Africa
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=WestAfrica.A2013200.1155.1km.jpg

I'll close with WeatherBug, and a short essay on Hawaii's relative lack of hurricanes
http://weather.weatherbug.com/hurricanes/hurricane-news.html?story=9905

I guess when they wrote that, they didn't know that TS Flossie hit North Carolina last month, crossed all the way over the continent, managed to stay together over the Rockies, and back into the Pacific, where it was headed towards Hawaii.

Thanks for listening
Skydaver out.

Sent to JB
Earth Science Picture of the Day had a photo of waterspouts, plural, in the Adriatic Sea
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/07/waterspouts-over-the-adriatic-sea.html


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Fog Bank, July 29, 2013

Hello Weather Brains listeners, this is Dave Phillips.   Don't forget to follow me, @skydaver on Twitter.  You might hear a little background noise; my windows are wide open, with a 56F dew point today.

Brad Panovic posted a neat twitter update last week. He wrote:
One of my favorite quirks of NC is that the driest & wettest locations are just one county apart http://twitpic.com/d4pevw

HT to George R. Chisenhall@grcjr for a tweet about
Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program products. Great information for tropical season. He sent that to Nate & me.
http://www.hfip.org/products/


Space Weather.com for July 18 had an entry on the calculated height of noctilucent clouds
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=07&year=2013

A Washington Post article about radar gaps & downtime
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/07/25/storms-flying-under-the-radar-when-radar-gaps-and-down-time-turn-dangerous/

What's the smell of rain?  WB guest Aubrey Urbanowicz has the answer in her blog.  It isn't Brian's old socks.
http://www.whsv.com/blogs/whsvweatherblog/Weather_Questions_The_Smell_of_Rain_216074701.html

Thanks for listening,
Skydaver out.

Sent to JB
Capital Weather Gang with a nice explanation of pop up thunderstorms
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/07/22/the-pulse-of-summer-when-pop-up-thunderstorms-turn-severe/

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Fog Bank, July 22, 2013

Hello Weatherbrains listeners, this is Dave Phillips. Please follow me on Twitter, @skydaver.  I follow back, but I'm stuck near the 2000 following mark.

First up, Astronomy Picture of the Day,  with a waterspout photo
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130717.html

My second pick is a blogpost by Brad Panovich about western NC rainfall totals .. almost 30" above average, lacking about 1/2 inch to reach average annual total.
http://wxbrad.com/almost-30-above-normal-rainfall-in-western-north-carolina/

Third is a book recommendation - I was out on the golf course in some gusty winds, which reminded me of "Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry"
by Scott Huler
available at book sellers everywhere

NOAA Weather Partners with a new video on Phased Array radars & PARISE, Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment
http://youtu.be/SHLKNnt-_hM

My last pick is Ginger Zee's heatwave story.  I couldn't find that on the WeatherBrains page, so I've got it for you in the Fog Bank.
HT to Kevin Morris, who posted it to Google+
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/heat-wave-taking-toll-health-19693930

Bonus pick
ESPOD July 18 had Undulatus Asperatus Clouds
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/07/undulatus-asperatus-clouds-observed-over-corfu-island-greece.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out.

Sent to JB
A spectacular time-lapse video of fog in San Francisco, titled "Adrift"
http://vimeo.com/69445362#


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Fog Bank, July 15, 1023

Hello Weather Brains listeners, you can find the links for the Fog Bank at skydaver.blogspot.com

My first two picks this week come from Earth Science Picture of the Day.  The first is a roll cloud, and the second is a sun pillar.
ESPOD Roll Cloud over Calgary, Alberta
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/07/roll-cloud-over-calgary-alberta.html

ESPOD Sun Pillar
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/07/pillar-over-paiko-mountain.html

On twitter, weatherdan and Jacob Wycoff posted a link to a weather bug camera in Mt. Sequoyah, AR with a microburst  & rain shaft

Jacob Wycoff @4cast4you 10:03 AM
WeatherBug camera in Mt. Sequoyah, AR captured a microburst/rain shaft last night. (h/t @weatherdan) twitpic.com/d229by

From WMAZ TV, a short piece about a pregnant woman in Albuquerque being struck by lightning;
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/article/238687/155/Officials-NM-Mom-Struck-by-Lightning-Gives-Birth-

I'd been wondering about how analog minimum/maximum thermometers work, so I found a manufacturer that sell them. That comes in as my fifth pick
http://www.novalynx.com/210-4420.html

Thanks for listening .. please follow me on Twitter, @skydaver
With that, skydaver out.

Sent to JB

The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA has a webpage on historical meteorological instruments at their museum
http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/weather/weather.php?cts=weather-instrumentation-benfranklin

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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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