Fog Bank, March 26, 2012

Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB.

Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather has interesting stuff in his blog, weathermatrix.  On March 15, he shows radar ducting picking up echoes off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/radar-ducting-catches-chesapeake-bridge/62811

If you ever get tired of Aurora pictures, stop listening to the Fog Bank.  Astronomy Picture of the Day has a very nice one, from Iceland, taken March 17, 2012
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120321.html

An explanation of the marine layer, from the NWS Jetstream website
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/ocean/marine.htm

From the National Severe Storms Laboratory, a background report on the Warn on Forecast project
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/news/backgrounders/WoF%202011.pdf

NASA has an upcoming mission to study very high level jet stream winds.  They will be launching 5 rockets, 5 minutes apart, from Wallops Island, with camera sites watching the plumes from North Carolina and New Jersey.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-nightlight.html

Send me your picks for the Fog Bank, and send me your pictures of you Spanning, I'll post them in the blog.  We can call it Spanning the Globe.  Here's mine:

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Fogbank, March 19, 2012

Sorry for the delay in getting this issue of the Fog Bank uploaded.


Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB.
Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, and circle me on Google+ (profile is over on the right, I think)

Accuweather Folks have tweeted & retreated a link to James Spann's entry on the alabamawx.com blog, about the 10 Deadly Sins of TV Severe Weather Coverage.  Great job, James.
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=58352

Earth Observatory pictures of the recent eruption of volcano in Kamchatka, Russia
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77388


From King5 TV in Seattle, a video of an ominous cloud moving over Bellevue, Washington
http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Creepy-wall-of-clouds-closes-in-on-Bellevue-142574705.html?clmob=y&

A video from CNN of an ice shove coming up on shore of a lake
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/us/2012/03/12/dnt-ice-shove-damages-property.wluk

NWS Chat from the Anchorage office; will Anchorage break their all time snowfall record? I haven't checked to see whether that did happen.
https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201203150001-PAFC-NOAK48-PNSAFC

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!

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Fog Bank, March 12, 2012

Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB.
You can follow me on Twitter, @skydaver

From Earth Science Picture of the day, Twin Waterspouts
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/03/twin-waterspouts.html

Not really atmospheric, but this is really cool. Ice Fingers underwater.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/29/natures-icy-finger-death-caught-on-tape-for-first-time/?intcmp=features

CoCoRaHS has their own March Madness, a drive to get more participants.  They get the third pick this week. If you're not in CoCoRaHS, sign up. If you're in, recruit someone new!
www.cocorahs.net

From Accuweather & livescience.com, an article on tornado shelters
http://www.livescience.com/18981-tornado-storm-shelters-safety.html

I'll close with a blog entry from Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather, about a big Pacific storm approaching the US
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/pacific-northwest-storm-waves-over-30-feet/62677

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!

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Fog Bank for March 7, 2012

WeatherBrains (www.weatherbrains.com) was recorded on Wednesday this week, rather than Monday as normal.


Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB.
Send me your picks on Twitter, @skydaver, or on Google+

Starting off, from the Washington Post, an article about dual-pol going in at the Baltimore-Washington forecast office
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/local-forecasters-get-a-new-crystal-ball/2012/02/15/gIQAEZKZTR_story.html

Jaclyn Whittal, a previous WeatherBrains guest, sent out a tweet with a writeup about Canada's winter
http://www.globaltoronto.com/pages/blogs.aspx?id=6442587143&blogid=6442451469&utm_source=facebook-twitter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=community

My third pick is Accuweather.com article on 5 tornado myths
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/top-five-tornado-myths-debunke/61918

Angela Butera tweeted a link to Chad Cowan's vimeo account, with a great wall cloud video
http://vimeo.com/24779493

I'll close out this week with an
Earth Science Picture of the day for leap day was a great roll cloud, at sea, off the coast of Brazil
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/02/roll-cloud-off-coast-of-brazil.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out.

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Fog Bank for Feb. 27, 2012

Hello Weatherbrains listeners, this week's Fog Bank is in memory of Will Murray.

From Chuck Prevatte, a page from the 21st Operational Weather Squadron.  This is in response to the email question about European weather sources
http://131.54.120.150/index.cfm?section=region5day

South Brisbane Storms, on Facebook, posted a great photo of a supercell storm in Australia
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150640442762505&set=a.279133602504.146166.261100802504&type=1&theater

Two different user pictures sent to the Weather Channel, first, an anvil cloud in the Gulf of Mexico, second a lenticular cloud in Wyoming.  Thanks to Angela Butera for retweeting those pictures
http://iwitness.weather.com/_nice-morning-anvil-in-the-gulf/photo/16018907/148597.html
http://iwitness.weather.com/_Standing-Lenticular-clouds/photo/16015845/148597.html

The Capital Weather Gang had a post on measuring snowfall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/accurately-measuring-snow-a-critical-winter-weather-challenge/2012/02/17/gIQA0C6lJR_blog.html

The Environmental Visualization Center had a great picture from GOES 15, of ship tracks in the atmosphere
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=990&MediaTypeID=1

Thanks for listening.  See you next week.


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Fog Bank for February 20, 2012

Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping Weatherbrains fog horn free for JB.
Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver.  My Google+ profile should be over on the right.

Christopher Waits, @lostweatherguy, sent me the link to
NOAA Central Library US Daily Weather Maps Project
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/dwm/data_rescue_daily_weather_maps.html

The February 16 Earth Science picture of the day has a great picture and explanation of the science behind a split sunset
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/02/split-sunset.html

Space Weather.com had an interesting picture of the Feb. 14-15 Aurora, from a US Dept. of Defense Meteorological Program satellite
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=17&month=02&year=2012

Space.com has an article on a great Aurora display that wasn't expected
http://www.space.com/14603-photos-strange-northern-lights-display.html

From the USGS Water Science for Schools page, an article on raindrop shape.  While falling, the shape depends upon the size.  I can tell you from personal experience though, that when you're skydiving, and falling at 120mph, and you fall through raindrops, they FEEL like they have a pointy end, and they hurt!
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/raindropshape.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!

The link I sent to JB
Here's another great picture of the Aurora, this one from Sweden
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35972709@N03/6831950559

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Fog Bank for Feb. 13, 2012

I guess James Spann punished me for being late with last week's Fog Bank; he couldn't stick around to play this week's segment during their recording of WeatherBrains.  I think they may play this next week.

You can follow me on Twitter, http://www.twitter.com/Skydaver.  I think my profile on the right side of the page takes you to my Google+ profile



Starting out this week, I've got a youtube video from David Brown, NOAA Regional Climate Service Director for Southern Region, on the Texas drought
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBrcn-1zeAE

There is a Google+ account called 'Earth' posted a picture from Steve Milner, of the aurora over Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
Before you click on this link, pause, clear your mind, and enjoy this stunning display.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Cu4dqh7mMQg/Ty1PQ81UyOI/AAAAAAAAnvM/gPCI8311ayc/s800/Steve-Milner1.jpg

Next up, from Chuck Prevatte, weather links for kids
http://illiniweather.com/pages/kids_weather_links.htm

#tristatewx posted a pic of some fog on  Feb 04 - Massac County, IL - as it formed... http://yfrog.com/hwz6ohmj

I'll close out this week with a link from the Astronomy Picture of the Day for Feb. 9.  It's a great video of the Aurora
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120209.html



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