Fog Bank, Nov. 21, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, I'm on Twitter, @skydaver, and Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver

My first pick is from the US Geological Service, a set of Google Earth files for  stream data, refreshed every hour.
http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/kml.html

Next, WB listener Dan Goff, @wxdan, gets a mention in a Richmond VA Times Dispatch article about the Virginia Tech Meteorology major
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/nov/11/meteorology-new-major-being-offered-virginia-tech-ar-1447913/

My third pick is from NASA Jet Propulsion Labs, SciJinks, a website with lots of educational links
http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov//

Fourth, NOAA Climate Services has a discussion of the flooding in the Missouri river valley earlier this spring
http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2011/missouri-river-flood-drama-likely-took-direction-from-la-nina

Chuck Prevatte, @chuck006, sent in a link from Accuweather about new storm hunter aircraft
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/57923/fighter-jet-being-transformed.asp
I'm not going to spoil it.

I'll be traveling all week, and won't have a chance to record a Fogbank in time for the show.  I may have one posted on next Tuesday.

Thanks for listening, Skydaver Out!

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Fog Bank, November 14, 2011

Apologies for being so late with this week's Fogbank.
You can find me on Twitter, @skydaver, or on Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver.

Help me keep Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB Elliott.  Send me interesting weather stuff, and I'll put it into the Fog Bank (or send it to JB)


First up,  an animated gif from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
 showing the development of a rare tropical cyclone in the Mediterranean Sea
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/111006-08_met9_ir_anim.gif
This storm beat the heck out of the Volvo Ocean 70s trying to get to the Atlantic from Alicente, Spain.  One boat broke open its bow, another broke its mast.
The Twitter handle for CIMSS @CIMSS_Satellite

Brad Panovich posted his winter outlook for the Carolinas in his blog.
http://wxbrad.com/?p=2081

The NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory (I think I'd been calling it Earth Visualization) has this picture of the Bering Straight Storm
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=885&MediaTypeID=1

Some pictures of the rain gauge that I setup to participate in COCORAHS
http://picasaweb.google.com/skydaver/cocorahs

Along with the rain gauge,  WeatherYourWay (suppliers of the COCORAHS gauge) sent some nice posters along with the gauge
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/brochures/cloudchart.pdf
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/posters/clouds/NOAA-NASA-CloudChart.pdf

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Fog Bank, November 7, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, and you can find me on Twitter, @skydaver, and on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

Leading off tonight, a time lapse video from a Weather Channel watcher, of his backyard during the Oct 29th storm.
http://iwitness.weather.com/_Snow-Storm-October-29-30/video/1654200/148597.html?as=148597

The second pick is by Dr. Greg Forbes, from the Weather Channel, with an article on the 'Second Season' for tornadoes.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/second-season-tornadoes_2011-10-26

The third pick is from The Capital Weather Gang with their outlook for this winter in DC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/washington-dc-winter-weather-forecast-2011-2012/2011/11/02/gIQAHXChiM_blog.html

Fourth, a website called Aurora Max. They have a live broadcast of the Aurora, from Yellowknife, North West Territories, Canada
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/auroramax/default.asp

Finally, Ben Holcomb has a youtube video of a shelf cloud at Grand Haven, Michigan, 7/18/2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOVwlfrKN2g

Thanks for listening,  Skydaver out!

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Fog Bank, Oct 31, 2011

I remembered to send this to the Weatherbrains in time for the show this week!




Hello, Weatherbrains listeners, and welcome to the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, and you can follow on Twitter, @skydaver, or on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

My first pick is from Phil Plait, of the Bad Astronomer blog.  He had a really interesting cloud video I think you'll enjoy.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/25/amazing-video-of-a-bizarre-twisting-dancing-cloud/

Next, Mike Cox, a WeatherBrains listener, and meteorologist for WHCB & WPWT radio in Bristol, Tennessee, sent in his blog postings about the NWA meeting
http://tricitieswx.wordpress.com/category/nwa-2011/

From the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory, a great picture of Hurricane Rina.
Be sure to click on the high resolution version, too
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=869&MediaTypeID=1

My fourth pick is a web page from Dr. Ryan Maue, on global tropical cyclone activity
http://policlimate.com/tropical/index.html

Finally, with snowfall coming, it's time for NOAA's Snow Climatology website
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ussc/USSCAppController?action=map

Thanks for listening,
Skydaver, out!

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Fogbank for October 24, 2011

Hello, Weatherbrains fans, this is the Fogbank, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.
I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC.  You can follow me on twitter, @Skydaver, or on Google+, http://gplus.to/Skydaver

First up, a cloud picture from the Earth Science Picture of the Day.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/10/pileus-cloud-above-roswell-georgia.html

My second pick is from the Capital Weather Gang, with pictures & video of  the Lubbock Texas haboob of Oct. 17
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/dust-storm-haboob-blasts-lubbock-texas-video/2011/10/18/gIQAY37NuL_blog.html

Third, I have the Hurricane Irene seminar, presented at NWC, Norman, OK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJyiI5a_2yQ&feature=uploademail

The fourth pick is from Jesse Ferrell, with some great cloud pictures taken in Central PA.  Jesse is with Accuweather, and this album is one of his Google+ photo albums.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107039790829132730218/albums/5665234565752320081

The fifth pick is another cloud picture, from the Mt. Washington Road Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150329887240718&set=a.10150328822950718.346282.76723350717&type=3&theater


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Fogbank, October 17, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied
picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC.   You can follow me on Twitter, @Skydaver, and on Google+, Skydaver





First up, the Mt Everest web cam
http://www.evk2cnr.org/WebCams/PyramidOne/everest-webcam.html


Next, Chuck Prevatte sent a link from the Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, PA (where I went to college) on making your own weather station
http://www.fi.edu/weather/todo/todo.html


From Twitter, a beautiful picture that Nate Johnson (@nsj) & Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) identified as either mountain wave or gravity wave clouds
pic.twitter.com/nm7S1t7r
The picture is from @sunsurfin


A blog entry from Matt Daniel, about the tornado in Virginia, October 13, 2011
http://earthsky.org/earth/tornado-crosses-interstate-95-in-virginia


Finally, the Facebook page for the NWS Storm Prediction Center
https://www.facebook.com/US.NOAA.StormPredictionCenter

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Fogbank, October 10, 2011

Hello WeatherBrains Listeners, this is the Fogbank, listener supplied
picks of the week, keeping Weatherbrains foghorn free for JB.

I'm Dave Phillips, from Winston Salem, NC.   You can follow me on Twitter, @Skydaver, and on Google+, http://gplus.to/skydaver


Pick number one is a short collection of some great weather pictures.  I found these at inspirefirst.com
A short collection of some awesome weather pictures
http://www.inspirefirst.com/2011/10/03/powerful-weather-conditions/

The second pic comes from the Big Picture.  They have a collection of National Geographic pictures of the year, and many of them are cloud formations and other weather phenomena.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html

My third pick is two websites showing an interactive map of lightning strikes.  The first is for Europe, and the second is for the US
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php
http://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/explorer.html

The fourth pick is from Weatherbrains listener Chuck Prevatte, chuck006 on Twitter.
Chuck sent in a weather page for Joseph, Oregon.
http://www.josephoregonweather.com/

Finally, from the Capital Weather Gang, a post about stacked lightning photos.  These are composite photos of multiple lightning strikes at a single location.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/stacking-lightning-bolts-over-washington/2011/10/06/gIQAln7nSL_blog.html#pagebreak

Thanks for listening,
Skydaver, out!