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Fognato or roll cloud?

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    • August 5, 2017 at 12:51 am #224190
      Marsha Smithhisler avatarMarsha Smithhisler
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      What do you think? I would think an “fognado” would be vertical.          http://www.ksbw.com/article/fognado-blows-through-santa-cruz/11388011

    • August 5, 2017 at 5:36 pm #224281
      Laurence Green avatarLaurence Green
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      Greetings, Noctilucy

      Thanks very much for sharing this spectacle with us.  Much appreciated.

      This, to me, is a Roll cloud, but in a very different form.  Nature always has a few tricks up her sleeve to surprise us.  Nature never rests nor sleeps – always working.

      Laurence

       

       

    • August 5, 2017 at 6:09 pm #224285
      Marsha Smithhisler avatarMarsha Smithhisler
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      So very true. That’s why Saturn is my favorite planet. It’s always surprising us with strange, sometimes inexplicable, phenomena like the hexagonal polar cap, braided rings, ring “spokes,” numerous moons, etc. Just when we think we know everything….

    • August 5, 2017 at 11:30 pm #224316
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      From Santa Cruz to Saturn and back in one short topic, Lucy; I am guessing you have been following Laurence to Saturn elsewhere.

      Fognado is a horrid neologism and should be binned immediately. I note the National Weather Service choose not to call it a roll cloud; The Cloud Collector’s Handbook p67 says most roll clouds are a form of arcus – but no storm here. So its likely caused by gravity waves, something I have never got my head round yet.

      Great post – thanks, Lucy.

      P.S.  I hope you caught the CAS daily e-mail on noctilucent recently.

    • August 7, 2017 at 5:49 pm #224549
      Marsha Smithhisler avatarMarsha Smithhisler
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      I completely agree with you, hygge.  Then there’s been “bugnado,” “firenado,” and other such abominations. I seem to have missed the e-mail, but will try to find it. Last week was another nearly overwhelming work week. But anyone who has worked in healthcare for any length of time will know that it’s often feast or famine: sometimes you can’t keep up; other times you wonder if you will get the required hours to keep up with insurance premiums. The only reason I have time today to check CAS is because I took a vacation day to celebrate our 41st wedding anniversary.

    • August 7, 2017 at 11:00 pm #224585
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      Here we go, Lucy

      http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3b978e064761964547808bac4&id=ffe4fd79d6

      And congratulations.

    • August 8, 2017 at 4:11 pm #224721
      Laurence Green avatarLaurence Green
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      Hygge

      This will be of interest to you given that Saturn is your favourite planet.

      This remarkable image of the sheer density of Saturn’s majestic rings is quite breath taking.

      Image, courtesy NASA’s APOD page released today (8th August):-

      https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170808.html

      It is akin to looking at a vinyl gramophone record close up – but in this case, on a huge celestial scale.

      Laurence

    • August 8, 2017 at 6:15 pm #224740
      Laurence Green avatarLaurence Green
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      Hygge

      Here is one specially for you!  Saturn, our celestial Queen of our solar systems planets, in her full glory.

      https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170617.html

      The cloud formations are wonderful as is the intriguing hexagonal cloud formation at the “north pole”.

      Laurence

       

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