Asperitas The CAS Cloud Vol 7
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Thanks Ruth. Ive got my Adobe Lightroom back and now have to do myself what the Micro-soft/Apple/ Adobe /Canon/ Sony/Nikon etc couldn’t work out between themselves. Like, Taking Fotos of clouds isn’t tough enough..Before I forget, to all who attend to this thread, be sure to view these Asperitas shots upside down along with rite side up..One, the upside down perspective shows whats going on in a view that my mind can grasp, ridges, valleys, pockets etc, Two, the difference between the feet on the ground perspective and the head on the ground perspective is so different its amazing how unbelieving my mind is in seeing the opposite as the same. Anyway lots of late afternoon early evening Asperitas over 2024 , well relatively. Nov was a bust and Dec has been dry also. The first part of a Pineapple Monsoon has not happened. The warm moist air is staying south coming up north into Texas…But the late afternoon casts color shifts and contrast differences in lighting because everything moves quicker the better or more churning the Asperitas is,,with an Asperitas experience in June even..and Ive finally got around to them. The Spring skies over Phoenix of 2024 seems to have been productive in Asperitas.. But, here is the last unposted photo from the Nov23 Asperitas breakout to segway into 2024 Asperitas.
Arizona Asperitas #95
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Hans, Your shot begs to be looked at upside down.Speaking of Pineapple, the random 3-4 months of wet winter weather we get in Phoenix seems connected to the La Niña effect, a warming of the oceans around the subtropics to tropics zones. The neat part is at the height of the abnormal event, looking at the geo satellite movies of the Pacific, one could see a stream of warm wet weather originating from..Hawaii,,hence Pineapple..in a steady flow to Southern California, Arizona and northwest Mexico. The truth is. ..Ive been to pineapple fields in Hawaii..They’ve been abandoned for new fields in Latin America. Hey, $1.50 for a ripe whole pineapple in Phoenix allows for a lot of upside down cake. The new thing is..pineapple spears (like pickle spears) in a jar with coconut water. Thats like Pineapple Silk right there let me tell you. Just like Asperitas, it should be experienced at least once in a lifetime.
Thin swirls can be Aspirated too. Be sure to look at this one upside down…sorry can’t seem to upload jpeg images to this site all of sudden. Im down to 69KB size so I know that ain’t the problem. Im starting to suspect AI filter making bad calls. Larger sized jpeg have consistently been posted here…oh well…try this one..well that didn’t work either..Its time to talk to customer service.
Arizona Asperitas#99
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Many thanks Michael for your explanation. It is fun to read about that the origin being Haïti makes it a Pineapple monsoon.
I am a bit puzzled about the Pineapple silk which you compare with Pineapple spears. Pineapple silk appears to be a fabric and might not be that tasty all be it once in a lifetime.Unfortunately your #99 is not visible.
This is an old one with swirls. Let’s see whether I can upload it…
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In the name of Asperitia Goddess of The Elvis Cloud, they’re all shook up, Mmmm HhmMmm, uh huh, Oh Yeaaa, I am posting a 2nd shot for the same nite,,for the full Elvis Cloud experience be sure to look at this one upside down..Ruth’s blue pockets demonstrate cloud going up, not coming down..a point Gavin made awhile back by asking has anyone ever seen it rain in an Asperitas event..It can be gentle like Ruth’s slo-roll or like with egg whites , beat until stiff peaks form..The wind is the egg beater, it can fold the clouds up and send them rolling along or it can break the thiner cloud layers into truly aspirated clouds ..in any case, the clouds go up, not down. What difference in air pressure can pull up a given volume of cloud?..is there a sound created when such a wind crosses over a field of Stratus? If a sound was created it would be Elvis singing Im All Shook Up MmmHmmMMmm Ohh YEAAAA
Arizona Asperitas#100
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BTW Hans the pickled in coconut water pineapple spears I referred to are a product of Peru. So, like Hawaii,,they have to process their product before shipping because a whole pineapple doesn’t survive the journey to the distant USA market…Grade B pineapples are on sale rite now in Phx..97cents each,,less than dollar and a can of coconut water will get a smoothie pineapple that has no rough edges..
Arizona Asperitas #103
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Any and all questions regarding this photo can be answered by consulting the oracle Madam Asperata. Gaining access to all her answers. is as easy as looking at this and all other Asperitas shots upside down…or just save it to storage somewhere and flip it on your own..Just know,all the unknown.. is rendered understood.
Arizona Asperitas #105
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Upside down they look like choppy seas, Ruth.
Below a blast of Asperitas winds shred clouds already performing a mild Asperitas ballet. Stratiformis lollygagging around Arizona need to be reminded we have a weather statute in this state. Any weather crossing the borders into this state has to be out of the state within 8 hrs…We live in a desert and thats how we, well the politicians, decided to preserve our land and climate; All weather entering has 8 hrs to get out. That not a difficult task. Ive seen weather enter and exit this state..from west to east in under 3 hrs.. Yippie Kye AAA!.. and if they look like they ain’t gonna make it out of here in time, an Asperitas wind is sent to prod the slow stratus into getting a move on. Like a pod of killer whales descending on a squid birthday party…for their grandma.
Arizona Asperitas#109
..and here is what is created by the same howling winds.. a smile as subtle as Mona Lisa’s
Arizona Asperitus #110
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I Love the Mona Lisa, Michael. Ingenious. Great weather statute btw for Arizona. Rules are rules and also clouds have to obey them. Here we are are stuck in a cloud sit-in. The featureless greys don’t seem to want to leave. It is a dilemma. Jail them and they stay. Let them and there is a chance they give in for more interesting skies.
Obviously Not Now
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..Btw , I never did spill the beans on most of the shots #89 and up. with the exceptions of 90, 101, and 108, the rest were taken on the same day. For a 2 hour and 45 minute period in the late afternoon I took a little over 200 photos ,95% were shots of Asperitas, all from the backyard. So yea, electric and telephone/TV cables may have been erased and replaced by a function in Lightroom…and maybe not , just a judicious use of crop saves a lot of time not having to do remove and replace. As a photographer I learn how much I can get away with relying on lens and cmos to bail me out. I respect the clouds too much to allow a crummy power line to a street lamp photobomb the shot.. The weather that afternoon was all southwest to north east so the shots are taken mostly looking west all the way to looking northeast, but almost all to northerly directions..because thats the least cluttered view and..the first hills out of the Valley await the weather there. The late afternoon 2+hrs of Asperitas also provided lighting issues that I chose just to go ahead and record. It got strange. I didn’t see what I captured with my, where’s the britest spot, get focus on it and quick shooting approach when interesting things are going off in various directions. When I ran out of light it seemed the Asperitas show also ended, blew itself out of the state. I easily lost track of time with evidence of taking an average of near 1 pic every minute and thirty seconds. So ,what I thought were the coolest ,you’ve seen, and Im still reviewing shots I may have overlooked in a hurry. Just today another list of shots I want to review in literoom again. But the rest are for the New Year and to that I hope Every One Has A Happy New Year!
Arizona Asperitas #112
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Hans, Yeaa!, When I look at your shot rite side up, it took me 2 or 3 passes before my mind finally saw the Asperitas, but just one look at it upside down I see the Asperitas. Looks like you had winds that had their hands full moving around that thick of a canopy. The walls appear to be already losing their cohesiveness and fractus is developing everywhere the battle ensues between cloud and wind. I venture the clouds survived battered and weary as the wind chased the sun over the horizon.
Another question is, is always looking at Asperitas upside down always required.. no..but you have to got thru the action of looking at it upside down to know rite side up is preferred.. a bit of a paradox I suppose. The upside down look is educational, it informs and answers questions. It gives a tangibility to the clouds, valleys ridges, rolls easily identified, a sculpture made of cloud . The rite side view is challenged and not always the winner of the preferred. Below is such a case. The rite side up, view maintains a poetry that the upside down view explains away into indifference. The Asperitas Arc does everything for the rite side up view and does little for the upside down view.
Arizona Asperitas#113
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Yes, my last one is not an obvious one, Michael. You describe the scene in a poetic way. Love it and I also recognize your considerations about the upside down look of asperitas. there are situations they don’t seem to like to be turned upside down. Like you say: poetry or indifference. You posted a magnificent example of ths statement.Can an analysis like yours be poetic in it’s own way? For sure it is!
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and then on the other hand..the small black speck on the left there is a jet airliner crossing the west valley from north to south (right to left) ..I left it in to give imagination to the conversation on board that plane at that time..” Ladies and gentlemen a quick look outside if you’re near a window is all we get before buckling up to land, so take a peek at Mother Nature’s Asperitas clouds, a rare one at sundown at that. Any questions just look at’em upside down!”
Arizona Asperitas#114
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Excellent specimen of Asperitas you captured Ruth. The sunlite breaking thru the weakening canopy on the right there softens it all up and there is no denying the center updraft. Thats some powerful wind that can pull-up a volume of cloud like that .How steep, in feet, are the walls on those pockets in the center and up in the upper left do you think Ruth?..btw..its Great too upside down!..I was thinking about a Vernacular Cloud Name for Asperitas could be ..the Dramamine Cloud..especially..with a new perspective of..on their side..Riteside and upside down are opposites..so On Their Sides..allows the observer to go back and forth with minimum effort…yea I can get dizzy doing that. Maybe just let the computer do the flipping would work..
I like both perspectives with the below. Rite side is easy and fun with the upside down telling a different story altogether. .not even opposite, just a whole different tale. Can there be Asperitas without fractus?
Arizona Asperitas#117
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Michael, some great considerations you have brought up with the magic of this cloud formation. It is at times as varied as mammatus. The photo you are asking about was from a few years ago. It was very low in the sky and steep in feet, can’t really say but one of the largest for me to capture. Again, these meaty ones remind me of intestines or sausages casings. Crazy as that is. I am enjoying going back to look at past photos and I’ll be darn if I don’t see more in them. Hoping our eyes are better trained over time. 
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Looks like Asperitas been going to the gym, getting her abs together. Seriously some fantastic big sky you have there Ruth.
The 1st shot below is the classic “Venetian blind” look of an undulating Asperitas with an opportunistic break in the canopy to highlite a portion. I pull back on the 2nd shot to show the ” egg beater” coming at the organized undulatus. 3rd shot shows the wind that creates Asperitas can also rip it all apart.
Arizona Asperitas #119
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The below shot has it all. You can see cloud being pulled up across the lower third of the shot. From lower left mid third ,across to upper right mid third ,is a Venetian blind ripple visual, just not at a good angle to the viewer as the lone lip on the upper right there is. Opposite side of the lip is a cloud roll going on by the winds, thinning out their density so light reveals the undulatus. Its a long shot. lots of telephoto so its not easy determining which up draft in the top third is pulling up the thin clouds in the bottom third.
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Ruth, A story..and one of the main characters is invisible! And the other main character is invisible for only a third of its existence.,,wind and water. Your Path is a record of history of wind effect on the cloud. A good Asperitas is awesome rightside up and leaves no questions unanswered when viewed upside down, except this one below. There is nothing there upside down. Rightside up has it all.
Arizona Asperitas#122
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Well so much for 97 cent pineapples..anyway, the one below should be dragged to desktop and then exploded as far as you can..as with all of these shots..Made large is a lot of fun. just like looking at these pics upside down, either you or the pic, hopefully the pic,..is a lot of fun..
Arizona Asperitas#127
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I captured the Asperitas wind in the act below. The dark line ,mid right, is a ridge of cloud being bullied by a blast of wind that is pushing around cloud . The wind has removed a good portion of the canopy behind the ridge. look at it upside down if you have to.. The bright highlites spots are where the cloud canopy has been blown away and now light is allowed thru.. The wind turns the canopy in to fractus from the top down. So the bright spots are the top of the canopy and the dark ridges are what is left of the bottom, base, of the canopy…like leftovers on Going Up Day. I can see maybe up to 50% of the cloud has been removed and it didn’t fall as rain…It was sent on its way as fractus…And its my estimation that this shot took place over central Phoenix.. I haven’t seen Asperitas over central Phoenix . Most “weather” that makes it to Phoenix gets torn up by the rising heat columns coming off the city..btw..a section of town ( central area) painted their streets white with a new kind of tar. supposed to reflect the heat instead of storing the heat like regular road tar does..so cooler nights and over the long term..perhaps cooler days as well..Wouldn’t that be wild..cooler section of town draws Asperitas to it..
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Hans,Both are loosing in the courts..so far. The day Donlione challenges law enforcement to…”who you got thats gonna arrest me?” or calls for militia to protect him from feds arresting him.. have moved up on the list of probabilities . Musk gonna be the richest man alive behind bars if he doesn’t cut it out now..
Arizona Asperitas# 131
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