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It is so sad to hear of disaster in Yosemite
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-41436218
(There are other sources of the story).
Samuel, you made me think a bit too. I think it may have been C. E. M. Joad (philosopher and psychologist) of the BBC’s Brains Trust who put into the language ‘It depends what you mean by…’. In CAS, and perhaps most cloud literature, we tend to concentrate on cloud type. As you point out, stratus (Latin for layer) inherently has a wider spread.
But to me your question implies a search for a boundary condition; if you find one you can then start quantifying – spread, height, perhaps weight etc. But I would bet it is not that unusual that you could fly across the Atlantic yet see no water beneath the cloud. Further, satellite pictures such as those from Meteosat, Terra etc can show cloud covering whole swathes of the globe.
So I fear your question as it stands has no simple answer.
Samuel, it all depends….
Google above and this is from the third thumbnail:
clouds (lesson 0112) – TQA explorerdata.allenai.org!1380 × 776Search by imageWhich is the largest cloud?
Michael, I believe Hora Staccato was written following an earlier visit from Horus when he brought the family? I may be wrong.
Bobbie Gentry (a stage name)
Ode to Billie Joe (q.v.) was on BBC Four two days back. Gentry chose to vanish from the music scene some four decades ago, but here are some ‘Mississippi clouds’ (google it and you get many interesting clouds from other areas too).
EDIT: Well, in fact you only get the interesting clouds…
NW Passage Cruise !!!
Battle of The Clouds
I was surprised When Paul Simons, Weather Eye, The Times (UK), wrote about this in his column today – first I have heard of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Clouds
Cassini OCT 1997 – SEP 2017 Pioneering Saturn probe.
OK. A lovely picture of Saturn. But this thread is a random way of showing earthly clouds, so since this came from Laurie I offer a White Sands, NM, photo from Laurence’s link
I just stumbled across this book in a discount bookshop and thought it was worth the £3 for the 37 page section on Sky and Weather – on the first page it says ‘On a day with no clouds the sky is far from uniform;’
But fancy another book on wayfaring – its that London Bus Law in action
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/you-wait-ages-for-a-london-bus-then-20-come-along-a3245631.html
Iridescense by Andrew Kirk
Barry White
He turned up on my local radio recently as I think he may for ever. His baritone voice reminded me of CAS Forum contributor Andrew Kirk http://www.network54.com/Forum/385606/search?searchterm=baritone&sort=match
Andrew is CAS’ man in Owens Valley, Ca (land of the Sierra Wave). These are his earliest and latest entries in the CAS Gallery
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/photo/photo-02598-x-2/
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/photo/photo-n-186887/
My thanks to Ian and Gavin for help in finding my way in the CAS Gallery.
Pope on climate change
We could have told him – no way to spot clouds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/41160643/czech-man-climbs-worlds-hardest-cliff-in-norway
Busted
http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/collections/art/henry-wood
My apologies to two and all, but that bust in #229308 is of Sir Henry Wood (but not you will note the image in the link)
