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So my eldest daughter sent this link to me: https://www.rt.com/viral/400159-brazil-cloud-video-photo/
I think she may be getting cloud fever. She also sent some lovely shots that she or her daughter took of the Sangria mountains “clothed” in clouds, but I don’t know how to send them from my phone.
Don’t know about jinn, but there is always something magical about them. As in this video from China, in which beautiful, mysterious clouds interact with the beautifully strange mountains. Hope you don’t have to endure an ad, but if you do it will be worth it. http://abcnews.go.com/ Sorry, this takes you to ABC News, but if you scroll down to “Clouds cause Chinese forest park to look eerie” you can click on the video. I think “eerie” is the wrong word, as it has a negative connotation.
I completely agree with you, hygge. Then there’s been “bugnado,” “firenado,” and other such abominations. I seem to have missed the e-mail, but will try to find it. Last week was another nearly overwhelming work week. But anyone who has worked in healthcare for any length of time will know that it’s often feast or famine: sometimes you can’t keep up; other times you wonder if you will get the required hours to keep up with insurance premiums. The only reason I have time today to check CAS is because I took a vacation day to celebrate our 41st wedding anniversary.
So very true. That’s why Saturn is my favorite planet. It’s always surprising us with strange, sometimes inexplicable, phenomena like the hexagonal polar cap, braided rings, ring “spokes,” numerous moons, etc. Just when we think we know everything….
Thanks for sharing those, Laurence. The NLCs look as if they illuminate the whole scene. I wonder if they can be so bright that objects on the ground cast shadows from their light?
Thanks, Laurence. There is a lot of light pollution here as well, and even though we live in a rural county it seems everyone has to have at least one or more security lights, whether in town or out in the country. I don’t know if they are really afraid of thieves, or if it just makes them feel safer. It really interferes with the moonlight during a full moon. I grew up in rural West Virginia, at a time when only the moon and stars lit the valleys after everyone went to bed. But…some of the pictures of noctilucent clouds seem to show them over (or behind) cities, so I figured they would be visible anyway.
Ooops…sorry ’bout that. Here is the whole link: https://www.facebook.com/spaceweatherdotcom/
Hi Roger. Don’t know why it might not have been a contrail or multiple contrails at the start. Just this week we had a couple of days in which the sky was filled with persistent contrails in central Ohio. As my job entails a lot driving, I was able to observe a number of them evolve from obvious contrails into cirrus and what I believe is known as floccus. Over the day they crisscrossed and spread until it was difficult to tell that they had ever been contrails. It was fascinating. As they slowly covered the sky I thought of the people who get nervous about “chemtrails.”
Thank you, Laurence, for those links. It’s interesting how the pillars fan out at the tops in the one picture, but nobody knows the reason (so far).
Good question, GillP. Probably so. If you go to the link and click on “Horizontally Compressed,” you will get an interesting illustration of its meaning.
