Field Guide?

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• • June 25, 2020 at 2:23 am #437874
    william woods

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    Hi All,

    I have a request from a relative for your favorite field guide to cloud identification. He’s an old soul so an e-version doesn’t really fit the bill.  Anyone have anything they’d like to recommend?

    Years ago I saw the cloud formation in the attached image whilst in Berkeley, CA. I raced home and checked out the weather satellite imagery and found that the formation stretched all the way to central Canada!  Was kind of humbling.

    yours in wonder,
    Will

  • June 25, 2020 at 1:58 pm #437934
    william woods

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    Ach! My bad. I see there is a pocket-sized field guide in The Shop.

    -Bill

  • July 11, 2020 at 3:09 pm #439919
    Deirdre Moore

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    Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s book, The Cloud Collector’s Handbook, is a great introduction and easily fits a large pocket. Highly recommended.

    Deirdre.

  • July 18, 2020 at 3:16 am #440603
    Rob Thompson

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    When you get an unstable layer in the mid levels (10-15,000 feet) and a stabler layer lower the convection down low can be weak and cloudless but in spots breaks through to the unstable layer and whoosh, the warmer air goes up, sometimes forming clouds like this.

    The line up of the clouds in this photo seems to indicate that there is a wave system and the convection is breaking through along the line of the crest of a wave.

    Rob

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