Capped and Caped

[Michael Lerch]

[Howard Brown]

Or Two Hoods?

Great observation, MikeL, and a fine record. But such a worthy post is deserving of comment for the uninitiated.

I fear you are guilty of allowing alliteration in the title to mislead.

Pileus, on top, is Latin for cap so fair do.

But I fear ‘cape’ is not in the etymology. I suspect, as a hobbyist, that your ‘cape’ is velum on the left, which is Latin for ‘sail of a ship, flap of a tent’ (ICA Vol 1, Appendix 1, 4. SUPPLEMENTARY FEATURES AND ACCESSORY CLOUDS’).

I also suspect that if it is velum it is unusual in not being of great horizontal extent. Hence it may be another pileus, attached to the cumulus. Two hoods.

P.S. Pannus is Latin for a piece of cloth etc. but that’s a red herring.

[Michael Lerch]

H, yes I believe the cape is actually the remains of an earlier pileus.True the neophyte might miss whats really goin on there for the easy alliterative, yet the foto begins where blue sky thinking ends. Nothing to fear.

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