Odds & Ends 36

[Mike Rubin]

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

[Howard Brown]

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’

[Mike Rubin]

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

[Howard Brown]

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

[Mike Rubin]

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

[Howard Brown]

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).

[Howard Brown]

#3 is a nice lightning picture

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

[Howard Brown]

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….

[Howard Brown]

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

[Mike Rubin]

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

[Howard Brown]

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.

[Mike Rubin]

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

[Howard Brown]

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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