Odds & Ends #34
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O&E #33 and earlier are archived in the Old Forum (under Our Society tab on Home Page)
http://www.network54.com/Forum/385606/thread/1415040851/last-1420585643/Odds+%26amp%3B+Ends+%2333Should Moderators prefer a different approach to O&E, please feel free to change.
N.B. O&E is a Topic which is not constrained to clouds, though obviously should be of interest to the Forum’s readers. E.g. I was going to post a picture of my dreamboat Cloudy but can not get it into the Album in my Profile (perhaps GP-P has explained why).
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Yay I’m in. My login details work then. I’m FlyByWire from the old forum.
And to test picture posting, here’s a Goblin in the sky:
When I uploaded the picture it told me comments are disabled. But I cannot see how to enable comments. Any ideas anyone?
Cheers!
-Mike
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Ooh I like the notification of reply by email. A big improvement there and will make it easier to keep in touch.
Hey there H. I see I haven’t caught up that far yet. Time is a tad limited these days.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the blue tinge is an artifact of the glider’s canopy. Although I wasn’t flying the one with the tinted canopy so not sure. It was pretty dark under those bigger clouds. Both Yoda and Goblins have a greenish tinge if I remember right so maybe the clouds are trying for balance? :P
-Mike
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CBS plays catch-up?
No new news, but good publicity for CAS:
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Northern lights seen from north Norfolk on the 18th. Quite unusual to see them this far south and also, I understand, the red glow is less common than the green.
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Here’s another time lapse. Worth seeing for the shots from the top of a hill with fog below. It looks very much like a turbulent ocean in fast forward.
One or two nice crepuscular ray sequences too.
UPDATE: The same guy also posted this epic ‘Into the Atmosphere’ timelapse and is clouds almost throughout. Some spectacular sunrise/sunsets, fog, cunims and lightning, and more. Wow!
-Mike
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As Rare As…
1. We started with ‘… snow in Phoenix, Az’. Now my friend in Dallas, Tx sent me a picture of snow in Dallas yesterday – looked like an inch or two. (Checking my Weather Guide data for March, Dallas has an average snowfall of 0.2″, max 4.3″. For comparison Phoenix, Az. has a Trace and 0.2″. There are several others < Dallas, mostly further South and/or coastal, I would say).
2. ‘… a flying weasel’:
Photographer explains how he got THAT pic of a weasel riding a woodpecker
I actually thought that though off-topic this was an excellent illustration of MikeL’s guideline ‘always have your camera ready’. MikeL emphasises that Cloud Moments can be fleeting (as the red-violet moment in the sunset in the first (and only so far) picture in my Forum Album).
In The Independent Wed 4MAR15 it inspired political cartoonist Dave Brown to a cartoon (which I cant find on-line) entitled ‘The Flying Weasel… Shock Picture’ with the UK Prime Minister as an aghast woodpecker, and upstart Nigel Farage, UKIP, as the weasel (fag but no pint of beer).
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Poth, at the Serpentine Galleries right now there is an exhibition called ‘Boomerang’ by Cameroonian artist Pascale Martine Tayou. One work is a cumulus cloud sculpture much as your post above, but pierced by what seem to be wooden stakes. It is not an easy website to view, I guess they want you to go and pay up.
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And real lightning – the most on earth- here:
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/mar/11/venezuela-lightning-lake-maracaibo -
Dust Cloud Video
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8131323/dust-sahara-amazon-rainforest
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Size matters?
USS Theodore Roosevelt is anchored some way from Portsmouth UK – at 332m x 76m it’s too big to enter the harbour. Some nice pics, but sky rather bland:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3006792/100-000-tons-U-S-firepower-big-dock-Portsmouth-Aircraft-carrier-USS-Theodore-Roosevelt-anchors-Hampshire-coast-arriving-UK-five-day-visit.htmlHMS Victory is 69m x 15m. I asked Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson (1758 – 1805) today what he thought about the American aircraft carrier being too big to enter the harbour. ‘Egads, how say you ‘aircraft’?’ he asked but waited not, grabbed his telescope and vanished towards the Solent. That’s the spirit, I thought.
P.S. I have never heard the Solent referred to as a river, Daily Mail.
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Private Passions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ns859I think of this as BBC Radio 3’s version of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. When writer Sarah Hall chose Dvorak’s Song to The Moon, I had that green flash of envy of the astronomical – why not Song to The Clouds? I was surprised, as a jazz fan, that I knew the tune. But imagine my delight when asked how inspiration came, her reply included ‘who knew that the Cloudspotter’s Guide would take off’.
Off topic, just to mention the nonagenarian Clark Terry who recently passed away, one of the greatest of trumpet players. Strangely he may well be remembered best for ‘Mumbles’ with the Oscar Peterson Trio in which only his scat singing featured:
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BBC World Service ‘Boston Calling, Making Waves’ today q.v., mentioned an exhibition in Boston where artist photographers remember Fukushima, some trying to depict invisible damage.
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Werewolf plant (as the Independent called it)
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Mount Fuji & bullet train
Loved this picture in the (UK) Independent Mag. today; but not sure whether there is cloud on the lower slopes?
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Sony World Photography Awards 2015, Somerset House, London, Apr24-May10
Umpteen images, not sure if all are 2015, not many clouds, but here’s one ‘Heaven’s Cloud’
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e-book on the history of weather forecasting.
http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-weather-experiment/9781448155972
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The Weather Experiment
This e-book, mentioned in an earlier post above, now turns out to be a BBC Book of the Week, if you like your books that way:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk/episodes/player
N.B. Like the London Bus Law (for want of a better name) this is the second sky-related BOTW recently – see/search Skyfarer.
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People may enjoy this video of the volcanic cloud over an island to the south of Japan. 3 sizeable earthquakes and a volcano this week: Japan seems restless!
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Don’t know whether to laugh or cry about this one: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/446911/nuclear-bomb-Russia-explosion-panic-mushroom-cloud
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Head In The Clouds
I was looking for a Glover review, but not this one; yet I have to mention it because of the title.
However, CAVEAT EMPTOR. There are no clouds in the review, or in the referenced sculpture. The artist is labelled a surrealist…
Glover mentions humourist Tony Hancock, which gives me an excuse to blog what I thought was an amusing, not untypical, Hancock joke I heard this Magna Carta week on BBC. Hancock says to his associates ‘Do you know nothing of Magna Carta – did she die in vain?’
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I have a very unusual image of a cloud above Whitechapel in London taken in may 2015.
There was near complete coverage of altocumulus and a few small cumulus humilis at a much lower level. In the altocumulus there was an almost complete perfect circle of a gap in the clouds. It was immediately above the cumulus humilis, could the circle have been caused by the shock wave of the thermal that caused the humilis hitting the higher level clouds?
I have seen fallstreak holes, and this could is certainly a perfect circle, but it is filled in in the middle so I can’t see it being caused by this mechanism.
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Nicholas, the small patch of cloud is much whiter than the Ac because it is composed of ice crystals whereas the Ac is mostly, if not wholly, composed of water droplets. It is the beginnings of virga falling from the Ac sheet.
I saw something similar a week or so ago when three or four cells of Ac were bright white instead of the off-white of the rest of the cloud. Gradually, the bright cells dissolved into virga and left a nice hole in the Ac.
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I’ll search for my thinking hat, Nicholas. Veeery interesting as Laugh In might have said.
Meanwhile, steady as she goes, boyo – some simpler fumulus:
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122°F around 50°C
In the context of the current European heat wave (a brief one I hope) I decided to look up what MikeL might be getting in Phoenix, Az. I checked the U.S. climatic data in my book Weather (from the contributors of the (US I assume) Weather Guide Calendar). I was amazed to see the Record Max Temperature (°F) for June was 122. I thought I would double check that on Google and it’s correct – 26 June 1990. Actually I think it was also the all time record.
https://phoenix-az.knoji.com/10-alltime-hottest-weather-temperature-days-in-phoenix/
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Hitch with no hitch
http://petapixel.com/2015/07/05/photographer-captures-a-crow-riding-on-the-back-of-a-bald-eagle/
P.S. Loved your video, Mike; those clouds looked so much better than they did from below.
P.P.S. From the above link:
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Some very cool video of a roll cloud over Illinois: http://videowall.accuweather.com/detail/videos/extreme-weather/video/4354298269001/huge-roll-cloud-floats-above-illinois-sky?autoStart=true&page=1
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Real cool, Marsha, many thanks.
This obituary is for perhaps the first ‘spotter’, the reason we are all here perhaps.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11708536/Ian-Allan-trainspotter-obituary.html
N.B. The Telegraph through up a message about ‘your first free article this month’ and suggested one subscribe; uh oh, I thought, following in The Times’ footsteps.
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Quite stunning photo of anticrepuscular rays with a rainbow – and a second, just – at Bryce Canyon:
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Moon transiting the Earth; a view from the DSCOVR spacecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMdhQsHbWTs
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Desert Clouds, Texas style
Picture number 1 of 7, the boxy little building with sun blinds projecting out, says on it four times ‘Prada’ and is actually an art work (there was a front view in the hard copy).
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California Drought
BBC Radio on the CA farmers’ view. Apparently way back Ca had a 1,000 year drought according to tree rings…
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Cloudburst at the Proms – mixed reviews?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/prom-32-eric-whitacre-review/
Proms 2015: How I learned to stop worrying and love Eric Whitacre
N.B. Having reached 40 entries it’s nearing time to start the next Odds & Ends
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The Marvelous Clouds
Not quite the book you might expect, but sounds as though it might interest some in CAS
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo20069392.html
A brief Round-Up by Peter Forbes in The Independent Radar 01.08.15 says ‘…sees nature as media….compare the air, the land and the seas and the senses of animals with human media.’
P.S. Am I right in thinking the rush of real cloud books in the first decade of 21C has now dried up? Can we expect cloud e-books, I wonder (not having an e-book reader)?
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