Odds & Ends #35
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El Nino
This being Yo Yo night at the Proms, it seemed a good idea to start #35 with El Nino which has been much in the news this year. Here’s one view
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34120583
Watch this space, perhaps.
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MikeL’s pileus beauty was a CAS random opener recently. I have often told MikeL I do not see pileus over Hampshire, UK, even though it is supposed to be the most common ‘Accessory Clouds & Supp. Features’ for Genus Cumulus (CAS Handbook, Cloud Classification table p104).
I would now request a second opinion from the soaring King of Hampshire clouds, Mike – how often do you see pileus up there, please, Mike?
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Hello Hygge. Sorry for the delay. I’ve been too busy working and gliding. Oh September’s been a good gliding month with 3 flights where I touch and enter cumulus (or Towering cu) clouds. Fraid I was flying instead of attending the conference. Hope that went well.
As for Pileus at Lasham, A quick search shows that I photographed some in 2008, 2013, and several times further back. I don’t see them that often though. But any time you get cumulus rising into a moist layer of air, it is possible to deflect that moist layer upwards to form a pileus. Perhaps I’ve seen them maybe once or twice a year? Hard to say. I’m pretty sure they’re much more common than that as we often have moist layers above clouds in this country.
Curiously my best Pileus pic was way back in 2002 when I was at the same height as it:
-Mike
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Pileus
Such a serene cloud you have there, Mike, almost lenticular and very unusual. But there is the associated Cu. I think its your being on the level that makes it stand out so unusually – most pics in the literature are taken from below and the pileus looks like a cap worn on the Cu, but it does not have to be. ICA Vol I, II.2.3.4, page 24 (hard copy) says:
Pileus
An accessory cloud of small horizontal extent, in the form of a cap or hood above the top or attached to the upper part of a cumuliform cloud which often penetrates it. Several pileus may fairly often be observed in superposition. Pileus occurs principally with Cumulus and Cumulonimbus.Fine shot. Thanks, Mike.
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A few nice short aerial cloud timelapse clips:
https://vimeo.com/84930224
https://vimeo.com/86172133
https://vimeo.com/90080341The second one is dramatic with the thunderstorms in the distance but the first one is my favourite flying past the Cb’s off the right wing. Spectacular. The third is a nice cirrussy flypast. Although some lovely lenticular wave clouds below near the end.
-Mike
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Rugby players reach for buttermilk?
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/rugbyunion/article4560549.ece
(Apologies if The Times puts the kibosh on its pic)
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These are fantastic, thank you for posting them. Certainly the closest I will ever get to seeing the clouds up close (I have a terrible fear of flying which has only recently been slightly reduced thanks to hypnotherapy!) It must be hard to concentrate on the flying when the clouds are so beautiful.
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7OCT15 Aurora
One a month? In the UK?
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http://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-independent/20151009/281642484000175/TextView
It seems you can not see the whole article but two little aurora pics are there.
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More UK aurora
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The clouds are 3/4 down the link ‘braking into Vale’:
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Some nice time-lapse vids: http://videowall.accuweather.com/detail/videos/trending-now/video/4539611056001/wow:-colorful-lightning-storm-brews-at-grand-canyon?autoStart=true and: http://videowall.accuweather.com/detail/videos/trending-now/video/4542643436001/timelapse:-clouds-rise-over-northern-presidentials-in-new-hampshire?autoStart=true
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Seeing as this is ‘odds & ends’, does anyone know when the cloud spotter app will be available for Android? I used to have it (and loved it) on my iphone but sadly that went round the washing machine and never recovered. I miss it, even though I didn’t score many points. Sorry if there is another thread about this already (I did check but couldn’t see one).
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Not typical New Mexico weather?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/16/us-usa-history-billythekid-idUSKCN0SA19R20151016
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Middle part of 30 minute radio program:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qml0r
‘Carbon Capture Storage
Five years ago, amid much fanfare, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, committed £1 billion to the development of carbon capture and storage – the technology to extract carbon dioxide from the exhaust streams of power stations, and bury it underground. This technology is one strategy for reducing our impact on the climate while keeping coal, oil and gas as options for generating energy. Given the discussions going on right now over in Paris at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, this might seem like a suitable commitment for the UK’s plans to address global warming. But in the recent Comprehensive Spending Review, the Government have withdrawn the money, effectively ending the current CCS research in the UK.’ -
CA Drought
We heard Andrew Kirk in the Owens Valley complaining of the drought some time back; seemingly little change:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aqueduct-drought-20150514-story.html
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Cloud painters?
About half way thru this link a famed illustrator of butterflies etc (whose name I did not catch) said painters were chosen over photographers for books since they could control the light better and were not at the mercy of technology (or words to that effect). Discuss.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w9drk
The Constable painting Cloud Study in the V&A comes to mind, but do you know of others? It was a study of cirrus clouds c.1822.
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Lovely stuff, Mike, thank you. You chose the best day of the week. In spite of El Nino and the Jetstream not being this far south it must have been a windy tow?
Have you considered copyiny your ‘Above The Clouds’ videos to that thread? It would keep the thread alive and also your videos which will get forgotten in O&E, especially when #36 starts.
GoPro is new to me but got a good write up for drones:
https://twitter.com/gadget_magazine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
which I browsed in a waiting room.
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Thanks Hygge. It was a breezy day but not too bad. A little bumpy below cloudbase but that is normal on an unstable day (just what’s needed to form cumulus clouds).
OK I’ll re-post to the Above The Clouds thread then. :)
I also have a lot of pictures up there too. What a stunning day it was aloft that day. Looks nice today too now some clouds have built up.
-Mike
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Kind of Blue – the biggest selling jazz record
I was amazed that the last clip of 2015 on BBC Witness was an interview with Jimmy Cobb, drummer for Miles Davis in 1959:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30688107
(Sorry, but I might find the clip again if I put it here).
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