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Daniel Wretham Photography had a lovely picture of mist rolling down the Purbeck Hills in Dorset, in today’s The Times (UK). I did not find it here but he knows his Dorset (where I used to stamp)
In The Times (UK) yesterday Paul Simons’ Weather Eye column referred to this article on luminescent sea creatures
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/giant-pyrosomes-vietnam-war/532893/
Stratocumulus stratocruiser, perhaps? A similar MacDiarmid combination was printed in The Sunday Times, UK, 23JUL2017, rather more stratiformis than this one.
This #8 in the set has an odd lamppost – can a photographer explain?
Some great photos of that storm, Laurence. This one or similar from Langran was printed in The Times, UK, 20JUL2017 (click on it to expand):
http://www.maxlangranphotography.com/landscape/lightning-over-west-pier-i-1P.S. The Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower strike (as shown by the BBC) was also printed.
And Z3088 left hand side was printed (no lighthouse)!
http://www.islandvisions.co.uk/z3088-lightning-over-st-catherinesWimbledon camera crews always have an eye on the sky and often give us good cloud shots. At the end of the men’s singles final, there was a one minute clip which was apparently the spot chosen to announce the reincarnated Dr Who. On return to Wimbledon the cameras morphed up into the 50 greys of muscular, but not yet duskular, cumulus – very suitable I thought.
Thelien, I would like to see the others, please. Is there an author? (Renou wrote a Bulletin…., Paris, 1877)
As to your question, no I have not come across the type cumulo stratus. Nor is it in the ‘Bibliography of cloud nomenclature’, Appendix III of the older International Cloud Atlas, 1975.
But it does not defeat Google although ‘cirro cumulo stratus’ is more common – I suspect it is incorrect. I did not notice that Google threw up the latest ICA.
The term ‘stratiformis’ was introduced by C.C.H. (the Committee for the Study of Clouds and Hydrometeors) in 1949, hence Cirrocumulus stratiformis.
This link looks akin to one of yours
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b4/1f/f9/b41ff9584f373b74d6bcdb03c23d57d7.jpgThe article quotes Barry Smith. founding director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses at London Uni. ‘….We know that the brain, having experienced similar events before, is predicting what it will receive….’
So I am thinking cloudspotters had better beware of perceptual illusion – their nervous system is getting two inputs at slightly different times, the predictive one then the sensual one. I think this is maybe where photographers have the edge, they check the two inputs match and don’t just assume, thereby becoming better observers?
But there are attempts to improve – the latest in the UK
http://www.cornwalllive.com/bodmin-moor-gets-international-dark-sky-designation-and-cornwall-will-get-a-tourism-boom/story-30428726-detail/story.htmlGeorge, my laptop gave up on videos a year or more ago, but it is giving me your first ‘still’. I really enjoy it because it typifies many evening clouds we have had here in Hampshire, UK, during this hot summer.
I am guessing you are the George from NY (ex Romania) so it’s actually a NY scene. If so. did you catch the picture of Lower Manhattan ‘encased in a golden capsule as a rainbow appears before sunset after a ferocious two-hour thunderstorm hit New York’. It is by Jennifer Khordi/Caters and appeared in UK’s The Times June 23, 2017. I was unable to find it on-line.
Good stuff. I usually rely on the BBC captions for information; but the picture of Gosport is actually a picture of a rainbow over Portsmouth taken from Gosport by Ziggy101.
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Bolt?
It seems you introduced this, Laurence, not the BBC caption. I have failed to find ‘bolt lightning’ on google except ‘bolt from the blue’ – lightning from a distant source. Sorry to be pedantic.
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/types/
There is a lot going on in the picture and I wish someone could enlighten me.
