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Brilliant, Michael. You caused me to check your CAS Gallery file again, great stuff.
You seem to get more than your fair share of Asperitas. I was tickled by ‘Lentil Supe’.‘H’
Linda, I think you hit the nail on the head by pointing out that fractal quality may not be true fractal.Thank you.
In this link #29 is a cloud picture, vortices is it?
http://themindunleashed.com/2014/10/30-beautiful-photographs-fractals-nature.html
Many of the examples seem more ordered than your average cloud.Clouds as seen from aircraft (ICA V1 II.5) – the second picture (it blows up with Ctl+).
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spitfire-mary-reaches-for-the-skies-again-at-99-57935lbqj
Not that common, I’ve never seen a stack of lennies live in ten years cloudspotting.
Daniel, I voted for cumulus recently, so had better stick with that. Here in the UK I would say they are by far the most common, but perhaps for that very reason they tend to be overlooked. However their variety is endless, size, shape, shine, shadow and tone etc. across all three levels.
Royal Dutch Shell chief executive, Ben van Beurden, said ‘Our position has been very clear and hasn’t changed: we believe climate change is real,….’ according to Emily Gosden in The Times (UK) today 3FEB17.
Wimoweh = The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Maybe, but more whichaway, I thought.
It takes about 15 seconds to scroll up to the top of this topic now and login….
Off topic (apologies) but not unrelated to this thread.
In 1967 JK Galbraith wrote (*) of the Entrepreneurial Corporation and the Mature Corporation:
‘Nor is any reconciliation possible. The assertion of the competitive individualism of the corporate executive, to the extent that it continues, is ceremonial, traditional and, on occasion, a manifestation of personal vanity.’
He continues of any head of a modern enterprise seeking the heroic image ‘Doubtless this does no harm’ and explains in a footnote that being well qualified for ceremonial functions is what the position almost exclusively requires.
So we must just hope that Galbraith’s observations apply to President of the USA.
(*) JK Galbraith, The New Industrial Estate, 1967 pp 103/104One more hoot
From The Times Register today (an obituary):
His last column for The Oldie appeared days before he died. In it he railed against the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency. “I keep finding myself singing Nellie the Elephant who, packing her trunk and saying goodbye to the circus, went off ‘with a trumpety-trump, trump, trump, trump’, ” he wrote. “I’m hoping against hope that Donald Trumpety-Trump will also say goodbye to the circus in Washington and return to the jungle whence he came.”Alexander Chancellor, CBE, editor of The Spectator, 1975-84, and The Oldie, 2014-17, was born on January 4, 1940. He died on January 28, 2017, aged 77
I think we are in a twist here.
Hans said ‘would enable the user to submit “Things that look like clouds”?’ (see N.B. below).
Gavin replied ‘Clouds that look like thigs is a nice idea’ and Laurence perpetuated Gavin.N.B. The Mercedes magazine had a long running theme of things that looked like the Mercedes three pointed star popping up in unusual/unlikely places.
I suggest ‘Clouds that look like..’ we have long had, whereas ‘Things that look like clouds’ is a new idea, though perhaps suggestive of ‘fumulus’.
Thanks for the thought, George. ‘Not now’ caused the pop-up to shrink; then I could move the pic up a bit and click on it. Much better, but much text to right which I could not turn off. I enjoyed it, though, so many thanks.
Never mind the infrastructure, Michael, yours is one of the best cloudbows my Google searches produced. But I didn’t read of ice crystals so much as smaller rain droplets e.g.
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz987.htm
