Odds & Ends 36

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• • January 25, 2016 at 5:19 pm #87355
    Mike Rubin

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    I thought that with a new year can come a new Odds & Ends topic as the last one was getting old and long.

    To open it, I just uploaded a video to YouTube of a timelapse taken yesterday evening. I drove over the North Downs on the M25 from the M23 junction. Up there it was patchy fog, swirling around the lights, while a 5 foot clear gap on the ground allowed me to see well enough to maintain 70mph. It was quite mesmerising. The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/OU__grH-rm0

    Here is a frame grab (doesn’t do it justice as the detail isn’t so clear in one frame):
    

    Thanks!

    -Mike

  • January 25, 2016 at 10:59 pm #87360
    Howard Brown

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    Lordi, Lordi quite a kickstart to #36, MikeL. Are you sure it was not dry ice up there?

    I say kickstart – I suppose that was for old motorbikes, perhaps modern ones have a starter button. But you ride bikes and drive cars. Nice driving.

    ‘H’

    • January 26, 2016 at 7:40 pm #87390
      Mike Rubin

      Moderator

      My motorbike does indeed have an electric starter just like a car. I think some motocross or trials type bikes can still be found with kickstarts but most road bikes have electric starters.

      Hehe not listened to Lordi in quite a few years. Was a fun gig back in 2009.

      -Mike

    • January 26, 2016 at 11:44 pm #87392
      Howard Brown

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      My apologies – I use MikeL to avoid confusion with Mike but nevertheless have put my foot in it.

    • March 15, 2016 at 9:44 am #88540
      Mike Rubin

      Moderator

      Funny you should mention dry ice clouds. Look what I spotted a week ago in Kentish Town:

      
      

      I like to call them ‘stage clouds’. :)

      -Mike

  • February 15, 2016 at 11:31 pm #87858
    Howard Brown

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    Eagles vs Drones
    We have mentioned both in the CAS Forum, now they come together
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35519470

    P.S. Bernard Lagan reports in The Times (UK) 9FEB16 that Aussie black kites and brown falcons spread bush fires for their own benefit (flushing out prey).

  • February 27, 2016 at 11:26 pm #88119
    Howard Brown

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    #3 is a nice lightning picture

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/12173436/Scottish-Seabird-Centre-Nature-Photography-Awards.html?frame=3582710

  • March 15, 2016 at 12:02 am #88532
    Howard Brown

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    Moonset

    Seeing the moonset yesterday, and as I write today, it strikes me I rarely get to see moonset.

    And I don’t recall ever seeing a moonset picture with clouds….

  • March 15, 2016 at 12:10 am #88533
    Howard Brown

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    Mike mentioned his new GoPro camera in the Above The Clouds thread. It seems the BBC used them in what it claims is a world first in TV:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35752662

    • March 15, 2016 at 9:30 am #88539
      Mike Rubin

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      Looks impressive. A cube of GoPros. Kinda looks a bit like a Borg mothership lol. Nothing can escape its gaze and we will be assimilated!

      -Mike

  • March 19, 2016 at 11:43 pm #88631
    Howard Brown

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    I heard the name Ellie Nino on radio recently. I wonder if the parents were weather watchers. There is a Ninon in my local directory.

  • April 28, 2016 at 4:13 pm #136819
    Mike Rubin

    Moderator

    I finally had time to upload my timelapse of rather dynamic shower clouds on Tuesday 26th April 2016. See https://youtu.be/GROKoi9_Lho

    -Mike

  • May 11, 2016 at 11:19 pm #141429
    Howard Brown

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    Weather

    #8 the supercell at Hugo, Okla, I liked

    http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/weather/2016/05/10/striking-photos-from-tornadoes-in-oklahoma/84175170/

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