[Laurence Green]

32 degrees Celsius here in Yate (11 miles NE of City of Bristol). – this is yesterday (21 June – the Solstice)  I think we are on the Sun’s anvil and being beaten rather hard….

The heat has come on very quickly and strong with little build to adjust to the high temperature.  Several UK weather records have already been broken.

I am a lover of heat and warmth but this climate is just a wee, wee bit too much.  I feel  I am about to “peg out”.   I have taken to sleeping in my back garden upon my inflatable camping Lilo bed only to be woken up in the early hours by my two resident Hedgehogs ( which I look after) crawling over, inspecting me and licking my cheeks with really sticky goo.  Hilarious!  “Oh dear!”

Laurence

PS, a lot cooler and fresher today – a 12 degree drop is most welcome.

 

[Laurence Green]

Hi David

I meant to get back to you much earlier on.  Please forgive me and accept my rather tardy response.

As far as I know, there are no specific guidelines  givne on the CAS website about the posting of images and forum content.

I think that as long as the images are cloud related, be they of Earth bound clouds, clouds belonging to our solar system planets or even star / stellar clouds you can go ahead and post them,  I think photos posted onto the Gallery are screened by our good photo editor man, Ian Loxley.  Anything inappropriate would be deleted  or not allowed to be displayed.

Forums – likewise with the above, I think you have “free reign”, just keep it to cloud or weather related material.   Do, please, spend a wee bit of time having a peek at the postings on the Forum –  you will soon get a “feel” for what gets posted onto the Forum and the responses.

I hope this is of help to you.

Laurence

 

[Laurence Green]

Dear all

Mystery solved with due and grateful thanks to all of you who have kindly taken the time to reply to my query.  I am now enlightened and now know something I did not know hitherto  As ever, one learns so much from the CAS!

“Petrichor”  is something I have not, till now, heard or known about.  Thanks to the guidance given I did a bit of “digging” on the internet and came across this article featured our UK Meteorological Office – here it is:-

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/rain/petrichor

I hope other members find this as interesting as I did.

I am certainly one of those blokes who can smell rain in the offing and when it comes the scent of new rain is truly delightful.  It ranks as one of my most favourite smells along with that of newly mown grass.  I keenly recall the first rain from the dreadful droughts of 1976 and even more so, 1991.  The smell of new rain was simply gorgeous in no small way.  It almost made me drunk – and that is without having a beer or glass of wine!

My renewed thanks to you all for satisfying my innate curiosity.  I am grateful

Best wishes.

Laurence

 

 

[Laurence Green]

Welcome, David

Welcome the CAS.  I am sure you will find your membership to the Society fulfilling.

Thanks for “coming on board”! The CAS is certainly part of my daily life, maybe yours in time to come.

Best wishes.

Laurence

[Laurence Green]

Thanks, again, Graham, for this.

I  have a love of poetry and verse etc and I will keep that which you sent me.  I like it much.

Laurence

 

[Laurence Green]

Hi Graham

Thanks kindly for the detailed reply and the useful information contained in it.  It is appreciated.  I have learnt some useful things here.

Thanks again and best wishes.

Laurence

 

 

[Laurence Green]

I strongly follow up Hans’ comment.  This video, quite short, is really worth viewing.  It shows cloud majesty in full “plumage”.  It is a marvellous pleasure to view and enjoy, not least, to marvel.  View it – you will not be disappointed!

Laurence

[Laurence Green]

Thanks  kindly, Hygge.

Yes, even now, I still find it amusing (in a dark sense) and incredible.

I think that if I were that bloke I would be running for secure cover or maybe with a camera capturing this momentous event (good glass of wine in hand to steady a nerve or two!).  I have never witnessed a tornado but would love to see one like this, mind you, from safe distance.

Best wishes, and may I thank you for all your comments, informative at that, on the CAS Forum page.

Be good!

Laurence

[Laurence Green]

Thanks, Hygge, and glad you liked the photo.  I’ve not heard about the “volutus” you mention.  I must make a point of checking this at some point.

I wonder if the “Concorde” cloud is a twixt of a Roll Cloud or a Lenticular Cloud.  Hmmm….I go for the latter.

Laurence

 

[Laurence Green]

Hygge,

My thanks to you for this posting.  The photos contained in the link are marvellous!  A real pleasure to view and enjoy!

Laurence

 

[Laurence Green]

Hi Hygge

Thanks kindly, and much so ,for providing the links in your reply.  They are a real treasure trove!  I have saved the links and have already included some into my Favourites listing for future reference and veiwing.

I like all your postings – they make for great and interesting reading.

Best wishes.

Laurence

[Laurence Green]

Thanks, Hygge, for your comments which I have taken on board and for the most part agree with.

My suggestion really stems from the wish that the CAS website could include  a small number of readily acceesible and carefully chosen links to other similar and popular websites connected with weather and clouds.  That said, there are so many weather websites so which does one choose?  Hmmm.  Ponderous food for thought.

I would add this – the CAS is now running as a business, not as a society hitherto, and should therefore, I think, be seeking business opportunities to further its expansion, visibility and increase worldwide membership.  That said, it is up to the CAS to decide.

Laurence

 

[Laurence Green]

Thanks, Ian.

You have beaten me to it.  I was intending to post this article onto the Gallery later this evening.

I have in the past oft asked – both the CAS and BBC Weather Watchers –  what prevents a link up between but with no real positive answer.  The blur between CAS and BBC Weather Watchers is almost indistinguishable.  There are mutual interests here – CLOUDS!

Come on!

Laurence

 

[Laurence Green]

Thanks, Roger, for your much appreciated reply.

I certainly agree with your comment about every US cent being spent to explore Jupiter via the marvellous spacecraft, Juno.  I am sure “she” will reward us with much wonderful information of weather patterns on giant Jupiter and how we can learn about its possible import to us here on Earth.

My big love has always been planet Pluto.  NASA’s craft, “New Horizons” returned wonderful images, including clouds ,of another world and so far, far away from Earth.  That was money well spent.

Correct me if I am wrong – I recall when the Apollo 11 mission was undertaken to land the first human on the Moon the money spent on that mission was the equivalent of the amount of the money spent  each day in the USA on – yes – chewing gum!  Well, I do have some reservation here but this is what NASA put out on the news media at that time.

Laurence

 

[Laurence Green]

Thanks muchly, Hans and Gavin.  Good and interesting posts here.

I really like the idea by Gavin about “Clouds that look like things”.  Keep it coming, I’d say!

 

Laurence

 

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