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Confirmed..US Navy seems to have test fired a Titanll missile to entertain us all. Google Space Weather .
Gabriela, Welcome! Those are pretty good shots for a cell phone. I believe San Diego is too far south to have nacreous clouds. The atmosphere has to be some unimaginable -121f or something like that in order to get the physics for nacreous clouds and we’re talking 10 – 20 miles in altitude. Generally nacreous clouds stay up north of 50 degree latitude to get the cold required.
But what did you see and photograph? I suspect exhaust plume from a missile. You might check to see if a rocket went off at Vandenberg or if the Navy was practicing . I use to see those in the pre dawn sky on the way to work. Every now and then White Sands New Mexico would shoot a missile to put something in the very high atmosphere. As The suns ray hit the stuff fantastic ” Giant Jelly Fish From Jupiter” blossomed in the eastern sky. I had to tell folks I was only kidding.
Altocumulus floccus Virga Hans, it was like a whole wave swept up from the south west.Always amazing.
Another bit of fun with the undulatus. The multi directions indicate the crazy winds as systems sweep over Arizona.
Thanks Keelin. Thanks Ian for placing the thin asperitas shot I sent ,in to the Gallery. Monet had his lily pond, I have Phoenix Arizona’s Asperitas. Just like Monet made numerous lily pond paintings , I of course, took quite a few shots including the gallery shot. So below is one I also like.
Hans,,at some point you have to settle for ,,in transition. There are scales of 1 to 10 for varieties as to organization,maturity, etc. Clouds change as the physics creating them influence and change. The cloudlets you show forming could be due to elevation/temperature/density change of altostratus to altocumulus..or higher cirrostratus to cirrocumulus or even altocumulus..For cloudlets to show so well with an wide angle lens I’d venture to say you are looking at Altocumulus elevations. So altostratus to altocumulus is my best guess. But thats what you have there, a transition sequence. Its kinda like colors..is it yellow green or green yellow?
Thanks Keelin and Hans, There is a fascinating scale of energy witnessed when watching a cumulonimbus evolve.
Arizona Color #87
