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Robert M. Persig – Philosopher and writer
Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’, An Inquiry into Values. It starts from Minneapolis heading northwest on the old highway, but Denver is the closest CZA I can find
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I think it is a circumzenithal arc, George. But you are right – Google does not do well on CZA.
Graham, is it The Times, or is it Getty (who have the image copyright)?
‘misters and a few womaners’? I right clicked on womaners, but it was not there; I could add it to my dictionary but perhaps not. Because I think you meant ‘misters and missusers’.
Which reminds me, what happened to your interesting note of 1 April 2017, Michael? It was about then my login went walk about and I could not find it recently to read , mark, learn and digest.
Michael, I recently heard on BBC Radio that air-conditioning added two degrees to the Phoenix outside temperature (don’t know if F or C).
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Making clouds whiter is suggested in this clip
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04yj6vpP.S. I have not been able to login to the CAS Forum since March when first a reply vanished.
The image I was looking for in today’s Guardian was of Burnham-on-Sea, UK (Benjamin Dunford/GuardianWitness) but the colouring was similar
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/30/the-great-outdoors-readers-share-their-best-weather-photos-from-2016#img-13Hi, Williams, and welcome. I would go along with Hans. Anything essentially linear in the sky tends to be a contrail; thereafter it can continue to degrade and become the mother of other forms.
Since we have come back to vortices:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/private-jet-flipped-in-superjumbo-s-wake-bgr2s5blcN.B. Some comments following the link are critical
From Letters to the Editor, The Times (UK), Monday March 27 2017 (I have notified CAS but don’t plan to send it to the WMO).
FLUFFY FORMS
Sir, Hurrah for the new clouds (“Enthusiasts with their heads in the clouds make waves”, News, Mar 24) , but asperitas is what any classicist would feel seeing the World Meteorological Organisation’s misty competence at Latin compounds.
Flammagenitus, cataractagenitus, homomutatus and silvagenitus are magnificent barbarisms: you can’t stick “-genitus” on to the nominative of any noun, and in classical Latin “homo-” compounds are not about people but similarity (homosexual, etc). Latin has a perfectly good word for ‘flame-created’ in flammigena.
Dr Angus Bowie
Hackleton, NorthantsThanks, Graham. Since you are Our Man from the Met Office, I look forward to any comments you might have on the new ICA. Meanwhile, I will keep my old hard copy to hand, just in case.
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I don’t believe it – I added two of today’s media articles in reply to this, then edited it several times adding more articles:
THE REPLY HAS VANISHEDand it’s bed-time
Whoa, Keelin. Floccus?
PAUSE for THOUGHT
I enjoy the fun you and other ace shooters bring to play in this thread. But the playground should use Definitions of Clouds by WMO in the ICA (*), not in your dictionary.
I can see where you are coming from, but if there were a moderator to this forum he/she might demur at your use of floccus in the context of what seems to be, as you imply, a contrail. Aces will understand, but newbies might be mislead.* ICA Vol I, 1975, II.2.3.2 Floccus
A species in which each cloud unit is a small tuft with a cumuliform appearance, the lower part of which is more or less ragged and often accompanied by virga.This term applies to Cirrus, Cirrocumulus and Altocumulus.
P.S. ICA Vol I only refers to ‘Condensation trails (contrails)‘ once in II.6.3 under SPECIAL CLOUDS.
P.P.S ‘floccose’ might fit the bill? But the previous word in my OED probably would not – floccinaucinihilipilification.
Peace.
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/Atlas/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/cloud/
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wind/The-Helm-Wind.htm
http://www.wolkenatlas.de/wolken/wo12902.htm
https://www.rmets.org/weather-and-climate/observing/interactive-cloud-key
https://www.facebook.com/CommunityCloudAtlasChuck Berry, rock and roller
President Obama said Chuck Berry made everyone roll
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OK, Laurence, so what do you have in mind for this ‘link up’? I agree there are mutual interests, but I do not agree they are almost indistinguishable.
My world view (not just a country view) is in terms of Venn diagrams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagramIf BBC Weather Watchers is the centre circle then CAS is an overlapping circle. Storm watchers might be another overlapping circle, and indeed there are weather watcher groups in the UK who are not BBC.
Similarly, other broadcasters such as ABC, CBC, NBC etc round the world are overlapped by CAS. BBC may not always reach all parts of the world with every program, a friend in Dallas, USA, advises.
So I am happy with the way CAS has developed its own worldwide niche.
