Fog Bank, June 25, 2012

Hello Weather Brains listeners, this is David Phillips, @skydaver on Twitter.  You can send me your picks on Twitter, or use my Google+ account, at http://gplus.to/skydaver (it also might be over on the right side of the page.)

It is Lightning Safety Awareness Week, Jun 24-30.  My first pick is the Lightning Safety page from the National Weather Service.  It has many new links for posters & toolkits
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/

Second, I have more Transit of Venus photos, from SpaceWeather.com
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=06&month=06&year=2012

The third pick comes from the Earth Science Picture of the Day, with an Anvil cloud in Bangalore, India
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/06/anvil-cloud-over-bangalore-india.html

Fourth is a June 12th Twitter update "Sweet lightning image from Mike Hall in Arkansas last night. This one is 6 separate shots combined." #ARwx http://pic.twitter.com/fsixQ3AO

My fifth pick comes from the Weather Channel's Nick Walker, @wxdude, a video of a roll cloud forming up
http://www.weather.com/weather/videos/news-41/top-stories-169/watch-a-roll-cloud-form-29137

I have a bonus pick this week, for Brian Peters, sent by Chuck Prevatte, Lifehackers.com guide to getting free Wi-Fi
I suspect Brian could probably have written this
http://lifehacker.com/5918856/top-10-ways-to-get-free-wi+fi-anywhere-you-go



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Fog Bank, June 18, 2012

Hello Weatherbrains listeners, welcome to the Fog Bank. Send me your items for the Fog Bank on Twitter, where I am @skydaver

My first pick is from the National Weather Service with their Beach Safety Tips online
http://www.ripcurrents.noaa.gov/tips.shtml

Second, I have a book recommendation, "Turbulence" by Giles Foden.  A novel of a weatherman involved in the meteorology predictions for D-Day. It's also available on audible.com

My third pick is a photo posted by the NWS office in Albequerque, NM,  of an overshooting top as seen from satellite
http://ow.ly/i/G9wf

Fourth, some great mammatus cloud photos from Denver, posted at The Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/news/denver-wild-weather-20120607?pageno=2
http://iwitness.weather.com/_Colorado-Weather2/photo/16895985/148597.html?b=

I'll close out with photos of the transit of Venus from Earth Science Picture of the Day
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/06/2012-transit-of-venus.html

Thanks for listening
Skydaver, out!

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Fog Bank, June 11, 2012

Weather Brains recorded on June 12 this week, as James Spann was pretty busy with severe weather on the 11th.  I did my picks live in the Google hangout, so the script doesn't exactly match.  I do have audio that I'd sent to James, just in case I couldn't make the hangout.  I also had a rant directed at Kevin Selle, wherein I pointed out the great things that can be done (Nate Johnson had his pick of the week up on a screen share)


Hello, WeatherBrains listeners, welcome to the FogBank.  Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, and help me keep WeatherBrains fog horn free for JB.

Chuck Prevatte sent me a link to MyFoxHurricane.com. He described it as "Good hurricane stuff in one place.  Typically TV Network News Cheesy but some decent information."
http://www.myfoxhurricane.com/

Chuck also sent a link to a blogpost by a Washington reporter about potential furloughs at the NWS.
http://blogs.ajc.com/jamie-dupree-washington-insider/2012/06/07/weather-service-furloughs/

My third pick is from NOAA, with their web page on the Wireless Emergency Alerts
http://www.noaa.gov/features/03_protecting/wireless_emergency_alerts.html

Fourth, Earth Science Picture of the Day had a great springtime Aurora photo
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/06/intense-spring-aurora-over-northern-michigan.html

Finally, a tutorial on Dual Pol Radar and Tornadic Debris Signature
http://www.wdtb.noaa.gov/courses/dualpol/Applications/TDS/player.html

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!

Sent to JB
Chani Norris, @weathertroll on Twitter, had some great photos of a storm at evening
http://adventuresofaweathertroll.tumblr.com/post/24430989939/im-a-noob-at-lightning-night-photography-but

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Fog Bank, June 4, 2012

Geez, I keep forgetting to update the blog with each week's Fog Bank.


Hello Weather Brains listeners, Welcome to the Fog Bank, and the first week of summer.
Send me your choices for Picks of the Week on Twitter, where I am @skydaver.

First up, from the National Hurricane Center, an article on hurricane hazards
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/hazards.php

The next pic is from the Earth Science Picture of the day, sun halos
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/05/22-degree-halo-and-46-degree-halo.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day had a great picture of the earth taken during the annular solar eclipse
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120530.html

My fourth pick is a graphic showing 56 years of tornado tracks in the US
http://visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com/TornadoTracks_4fbd458d255c5.jpg
I think there were many places that had this, but it was sent to me by @newton21989

Finally, from Weather Underground, a great lightning photo from Texas
http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/weatherfanatic2010/167?gallery=EDITORSPICK

Thanks for listening, Skydaver out!

Sent to JB
Tornado Titans had a great supercell photo, from Piedmont, OK, May 29
http://www.tornadotitans.com/blog/2012/05/31/223-amazing-supercell-near-piedmont-ok

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Fog Bank, May 29, 2012

I recorded the Fog Bank on Monday, May 28; Weatherbrains took the Memorial Day holiday off, and recorded on Tuesday



First, Some video of the May 9 dust storms in Arizonq, from Mike Olbinsky
http://www.mikeolbinski.com/2012/05/an-early-spring-dust-storm-may-9th-2012/

The second pick is a Great Wave cloud photo
Another Wave cloud photo this morning #fb @VickiGrafWRDW @wxbrad @RichWeather pic.twitter.com/9jQ37Vfq

The third pick is an article about the Jetstream
http://gantdaily.com/2012/05/13/probing-question-what-is-the-jet-stream/

Fourth is The view from Norman, OK, Monday, May 28, by Rick Smith @ounwcm
http://instagr.am/p/LMLirNn4dE/

Finally, Panama City Beach, the same night, from Jim Loznicka WJHG, @jimwxgator
http://p.twimg.com/AuBbC0OCIAEsSfm.jpg

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Fog Bank, May 21, 2012

Yikes, I've fallen behind in posting again.



First up,
From Earth Science Picture of the Day,  a picture of a sun pillar
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/05/brilliant-sun-pillar-over-jenison-michigan.html

The second pick is
A report from NOAA on the deployment progress of Dual Polarization Radar
http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/PublicDocs/DualPol/DPstatus.pdf

Third, I have
Two lightning photos from Mike Hall, Kentucky Weather
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ky_weather/6998658366/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ky_weather/6998663510/

Fourth is a short article by Dr. Greg Forbes on waterspouts
http://www.weather.com/news/waterspouts-6-things

Finally,
A six image composite photo of lightning in Ottawa, KS
https://twitter.com/#!/BDMphoto/status/200688438503145472/photo/1/large

Thanks for listening
Skydaver out.

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Fog Bank, May 14, 2012

Welcome to the Fog Bank, keeping JB fog horn free.  Follow me on Twitter, @skydaver, and circle me on Google+

First up, Bryan Wood sent in an article about Storm chasing from the Columbia, MO, Daily Tribune
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/22/on-trail-tornadoes/?news

The second pick is an article from Wired on ten years of MODIS images from the Aqua satellite.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/aqua-satellite-anniversary/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru

It includes links to high resolution versions of the images for your downloading pleasure.

The third pick is a video of tornado damage in Nassau, Bahamas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BgTEoQ2YMY&feature=youtu.be

Next up,  a series of pictures showing the green flash at sunset
https://twitter.com/#!/alshaymaa1413/status/195475732204498944/photo/1

I'll close out this week with a website, still in demonstration stage, but it looks like it will be interesting.  A 'Young Meteorologist' game:
http://www.youngmeteorologist.org/

Thanks for listening, Skydaver, out.

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