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Hi George
Thanks much for your welcome reply.
Temptation awaits!!!
Whatever your future travel plans maybe I sincerely wish you all the best and wonderful photography, not least, stunning vistas. What a place to visit, eh?!? Maybe you could at some time place some photos onto the CAS Gallery?
Best wishes and safe travel whenever, wherever.
Laurence
Hi Keelin & Hans
It gladdens me much you found my posting both enjoyable and informative.
In all my life of some 65 years I’ve never ever seen anything like this. This is an example of the eternal wonder of clouds which is devilishly and enticingly attractive!
Best wishes, as ever.
Laurence
Hi Hygge
By coincidence, a very nice photo of an orange sky was posted on the CAS’s photo gallery in the last few days. Here it is:-
Best regards, as ever.
Laurence
By coincidence, NASA, via its APOD page has released today (7th September ’18) this startling image taken atop of Saturn’s north pole. It shows the magnificent hexagon. Image, in false colour, was captured in 2012. The hexagon measures some 30,000kms (18,663 miles) diameter.
Here it is – prepare to be amazed!
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180907.html
Laurence
Gents,
My pleasure. I am glad you both derived enjoyment from this marvellous image, as too, I hope, other CAS members.
The aurora above Saturn’s north pole is exceedingly remarkable – it is hexagonal. The image here shows all:-
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130220.html
Laurence
Hi Hans,
(2nd attempt – my PC is being visited by IT gremlins)
Greetings.
Thanks for your interesting reply.
Thanks too, for the explanation of LIFO and FIFO. I will remember these connotations for the future as they could prove useful to me later on.
As an aside, the CAS has 44,000+ members and it does sadden me, maybe you too, that not all that many respond to the Forum or Gallery pages. Why this is puzzles me much.
I belong to several small interest groups and the memberships are small. That said, the debates, contributions and sharing of news stories etc are certainly very lively and spontaneous. I just wish the CAS could somehow devise a way of engaging more with its members, likewise, members engaging with the CAS.
Best wishes to you, as ever.
Laurence
Hygge
Thanks for your reply and your thoughts – appreciated. Your response is the only one so far appearing.
I was merely suggesting that Threads could be placed in a separate folder, called, for example, “Forum Threads” which would provide a dedicated “home”, so to speak, to house the ever growing number of interesting Threads appearing on the Forum.
At the top of the CAS page there are 7 topic folders. It would be, I suggest, easy to add another folder, as suggested above. As a former webmaster, before I retired, it would, for me to be simple and easy to set up and establish a new folder and move all existing threads to it and with a topical Thread subject matter.
By the way, what is the “LIFO” you relate to? Could you educate me on this, please?
Laurence
Hi “gdey28”
Hearty welcome to the CAS!
You have come to exactly the right place to learn about clouds and appreciate their beauty and ever changing ways. Clouds have been at the centre of my heart since the age of 4 years and still are at the age of 64!
A suggestion:- take some time to probe the CAS website and get a “feel” for what goes on here. I would certainly recommend perusing the Photo Gallery – this is a superlative collection of wondrous photos of clouds – and not only Earth-bound but also of clouds that occur on our solar system’s planets.
I wish you great times and enjoyment via the CAS!
Laurence
PS. This is a website, thanks be, devoid of adverts and annoying “pop-ups”.
All of Europe and elsewhere were fortunate to see this event. Not so in UK. Deary, deary, me!
“Sod’s Law” never seemingly fails to occur right on cue and mess things up.
Laurence
Hi Hans
Thanks, as ever, for your always welcome and informative reply – this is what I like about the CAS Forum page, that is, to engage with other like minded members such as you..
We had a small tease of rain last evening, but, yes, enough to evoke that delicious intoxicating smell of Petrichor.
Today (28th July) we had some welcome rain but it is on / off stuff. Nothing serious and nowhere near enough to quench the dry landscape. Friends of mine in Doncaster, way up north from where I live, had torrential downpours of rain. Wish I had some of that too! All five of my 55 UK gallons water butts still bone dry! I long for the clouds to make the sound of rain filling them up. Such when it occurs will, for me, be Handel’s “Water Music”.
Best wishes, keep cool – if possible!
Laurence
Laurence
Thank you kindly, George.
I am glad to know my posting took to your liking,
I have a love of planets. Mercury I have yet to see in all the years I have been looking to the heavens.
A very elusive planet to see. And, not helped by horrible light pollution. I’ve not seen a truly black sky for ages and star spangled at that.
Thanks.
Laurence
Hi Hans
Thanks for your always welcome reply.
I get reports from my friends in continental Europe and they are all telling me of the sort of weather you are experiencing in the Netherlands.
In UK the month of June has, according to our Met Office, been the driest since 1929. I thought the dreadful heat waves and ghastly high temperatures we suffered in 1976, and even worse, 1991 were bad enough. I hope 2018 will not be a repeat or even worse!
I have not seen hardly any clouds in the sky for ages. One looks up to bland boring “wall to wall” blue uninteresting sky. This certainly attains well to the CAS’s strivence, “Fighting the banality of blue sky” etc.
Laurence
Yes, Noctilucent clouds are beginning to appear.
Released via the NASA APOD page just a couple of days ago is a marvellous image of such cloud together sharing company with the Northern Lights over Canada.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180621.html
As ever, a concise explanation is afforded in the above link about the way these things occur.
Laurence
