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Come to think of it, I have had my car covered in (possibly Saharan) dust in the past, but not this time (but it did not spend that long outside its garage).
Yes, I see your point, George, about the (widely quoted) Sahara; more Iberian forest fires. Thank you.
Laurence, the last Weather Watcher ‘treehacker’ captured the red sun I saw very well. Thanks for that.
I forgot to say that my local starlings were flying around at midday in a flock as if it were a duskular (thanks to Andrew Kirk for that word) murmuration.
Paul Simons, Weather Eye, The Times, UK wrote two Ophelia-related columns, Sat 14OCT2017 and Tues 17OCT2017 (don’t ask me about Mon). Something I have not seen elsewhere was his claim that ‘Ophelia had taken on a new lease of life, dragged along by a vigorous jet stream.’ ‘As it skirted round the Azores islands it unexpectedly exploded into a category 3 hurricane…. It is extremely rare for this to happen – in data going back to 1851, no other major hurricane is known to have formed anywhere close to as far northeast as Ophelia’.
Ah, sorry Laurence. I was just admiring the clouds and fumulus (an ex- term which has been replaced in the new ICA I believe). The image was attached to an article which I have now binned (you could find it on-line). If I remember rightly the viaduct has been closed for a year for essential maintenance which necessitated the shoring up, but the work has gone well and it is due to re-open soon; how soon, perhaps November but don’t quote me.
I knew of Vivaldi, but only recently discovered Tchaikovsky also wrote a seasonal composition
Don’t know, sorry. It appears CAS has 14 members in UAE; but if you send this forum a picture from there it might be a first?
Fascinating thread and links; thanks, guys. Sprites, blue jets and elves did get a mention in Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s book The Clouspotter’s Guide.
My Concise OED includes ‘sprites’, my similar Collins does not.
Right on, Franz. This review agrees with you
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-the-french-impressionists-loved-painting-britain-gsjllpvf2
The review includes this quite abstract Monet painting of Leicester Square
Franz, a coincidence, another one comes along….
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/ey-exhibition-impressionists-london
Steve, I would agree with Hans you have a typical example there. Keep your eyes open as they may be orographic and re-occur one day
https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/species-altocumulus-lenticularis-ac-len.html
Franz, seeing your title I thought of Michael Caine’s favourite comment ‘Not a lot of people know that’. Reading the article there are many fabulous things I did not know – thank you very much for bringing this to the forum. It will take time for me to do my homework on it, but I am looking forward to it.
Orographic clouds
Laurie, the Helm cloud and the Helm Bar (a rotor cloud) are orographic – related to the hilly terrain. As such they will re-occur from time to time.
https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/search.html?keyword=orographic
Morning Glory
This is a roll cloud which will re-occur from time to time. Cloud authors, not least CAS’ Gavin Pretor-Pinney have been to see it and/or written about it. As luck would have it it is apparently occurring right now:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/flying-the-ultimate-wave-gvqlvgsxw
