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I take my proms in an arsy-versy way. On radio Tchaikovsky’s mellow 2nd Piano Concerto sent me out to check the sunset – I was not disappointed. I guess this is the reverse of music to watch clouds by which pops up now and again.
On TV, the Big Band Swing Prom played Stan Kenton’s Peanut Vendor during which the camera briefly zoomed in on the bust of Sir Thomas Beecham – did I see a quizzical eyebrow? And Hiromi is a force of nature with her hair swept up a la Cu Nm – where have I been since she came on the scene?
Mea culpa, sorry guys.
Laurie, this TV program this evening seems to me to be not unrelated to the lost art; art is arguably the expression of a single person, whereas the science of this program is the result of many. The program investigates the digitilisation of meteorology resulting in greater accuracy than even the skilled individual; agreed there is a difference between weather forecasting and wayfinding.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07f27j1
N.B. The abstract omits John Tyndall who around 1855 warned of coal burning producing CO2 and global warming; Edward Lorenz who discovered chaos theory and the butterfly effect; the double pendulum which simply demonstrates chaos.
Hi, Laurie (or perhaps Lost Laurie since there is already another Laurie) and welcome. Thank you for taking the time to bring Huth’s work to our attention. (And yes there was a time recently when the CAS Forum was tripping up over users’ usage of links – it has been relaxed somewhat since, so your links might work now if you give them a try).
It sounds fascinating and I suspect a double entendre in Finding Our Way, en route or in life. Therein lies the problem – finding the time in today’s frantic world of instant gratification, one reason we turn to the CAS (as per its manifesto).
I would go for the Lenticular Pampa; I note the photographer Graham Niven also took the Solitree in N Sweden – he gets around.
Storm over Gibraltar was interesting – their shelf cloud looks akin to a tornado.
P.S. The Portsmouth picture says sunrise – that might be a bit misleading since it is looking rather northwards. See 22JUL2017 for other Spinnaker Tower pictures.
Some cloud 400159 in Brazil. I seem to remember a freaky Russian cloud a while back.
Meanwhile, Magritte; I thought Michael would enjoy this EU diplomatic barb:
UK proposal on invisible Irish border is like this surrealist painting by fellow Belgian Magritte, says @GuyVerhofstadt pic.twitter.com/FMG9L02huf
— Adam Fleming (@adamfleming) August 30, 2017
Magritte is also discussed in this 2011 Dutch thesis (6mb PDF) on pages 26/27 if you want to delve into the academics of a border
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okta
It has been worrying me since I said above ‘8/10 cloud cover’. Cloud cover is measured in eighths, as was mentioned on my local BBC Radio Solent 22AUG2017.
In essence, climate change has ripened the berries earlier, now matching the salmon spawning time.
“The bears’ goal is to gain as much weight as possible before winter . . . Even though salmon are a great food, berries are probably the better food for them,” Dr Deacy said
As George remembered, my laptop will still not play most videos, but it did play this one. I bought an iPad last year but have not got round to setting it up yet – it struck me I might have to do so for the sake of videos.
Cloud Types, 1982
Eric, page 13 of this PDF gives a Pictorial Guide to mid-level clouds CM: Ac – As – Ns. CM9 Chaotic sky is at the top right of page 13, while CM9 is described on page 16
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/r/i/cloud_types_for_observers.pdf
That’s a very specific question you have, Emily, but it would be great if you found the answer. I am intrigued so I hope you will let us know here if you find out elsewhere.
Meanwhile, I enjoyed this program which found a new Constable with great clouds.
21AUG2017 (my fourth attempt at this reply which keeps vanishing when I go search or just for no reason)
Well, here in Hants, UK, where there was but a nibble out of the sun, it was 8/10 cloud cover and I did not even see the sun – DOH! Laurence, thanks for the APOD link. George, you were lucky. On BBC radio a guy knew of the eclipse 9 years ago and booked his hotel room 3 years ago. I hope you were doubly lucky unlike UK weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker who went on holiday to Nashville, TN
https://twitter.com/Schafernaker?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
but did not get to see it through cloud, though some nearby did
I think the US west coast did better but I guess Tomasz went for the longest time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40657793
Eric, your Multicloud skies sound to me akin to the cloud classification CM=9, Chaotic sky
https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/cm-9.html
But I guess Gavin Pretor-Pinney and his publisher for The Cloud Collector’s Handbook made a conscious decision not to involve the cloud classification code figures CL, CM, CH for low, medium and high clouds, perhaps for simplicity to engage a wider public.
Rival author Richard Hamblyn (also a CAS member) does use the codes in some of his books.
N.B. The old ICA Vol II, a book of pictures, gave the code figures beneath each picture. The three pictures of a Chaotic sky gave respectively
CL=1, CM=9, CH=8
CL=0, CM=9, CH=0
CL=3, CM=9, CH=2
