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It is cloudy tonight but this was yesterday, on the eve of the Supermoon, taken (probably from Gosport) through the Spinnaker Tower at Portsmouth, UK
https://en-gb.facebook.com/PeterMacdiarmidPhotographer/
I saw this from home looming very large through the trees at moonrise (the so called Moon illusion), and with a lovely halo later on.Paul Simons discusses supermoons today in The Times (UK). He says ‘cameras later showed that the moon is the same size regardless of where it is in the sky, and if you look at (the illusion) through a cardboard tube it too looks normal size.’ Anyone tried that?
Top notch cloudspotting, MikeL. Well done and many thanks.
A fortiori, it has been a while since we got formal cloud types (I always hope for more) let alone species and variety and photo to match. Terrific.
‘H’
Another musical tribute.
Leonard Cohen
His song Anthem includes a reference to a thundercloud
https://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/album10.html#78and I think he would like that it is called Hector
You got it, Laurence. Sadly I can not see the video images (apart from the initial still, I have a Windows 10 laptop problem) of Minnesota this time around, but I remember the voices. But the video in your post #181005 works fine (as do most videos in adverts).
If anyone has any advice on my video problem which started back in the early summer, I would be delighted.
Paul Simons, Weather Eye, The Times (UK), 8NOV2016 discusses the Siberian ice balls. He also gives a link to Glen Arbor on Lake Michigan 2013-2014:
bit.ly/lwBUTE5That link does not work for me but if you Google ‘glen arbor mi ice balls’ you will get a selection; very similar to Siberia.
Bubble scientist Helen Czerski said on radio that bubbles in the sea help form the clouds above
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081lpj1(Click ‘Show more’ below the picture for a summary).
Paul, I had no luck with this. The first link says I am not entitled to view it. The second link says Error – the video could not be decoded.
The Morning Glory features in Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s book The Cloudspotter’s Guide, of course.
Thanks for that, Laurence, fascinating. As for something like it, I am reminded of foamy ice pushing off a lake in USA a year or two back, even into houses. Anyone pin that down a bit, please?
Petula Clarke sang ‘Don’t Sleep in the Subway’ this evening on UK TV, umpteen years after her 1960s hit. It starts
You wander around
on your own little cloud
when you don’t see the why
or the wherefore.If your love of clouds extends to weather, this may be for you. I heard one programme today, Omnibus 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0801p40but not ‘In Cloudland’ as yet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07bdd27‘gorgeous powder blue’ – I had missed that, Hans; he might do something similar as Foreign Minister.
Oxford Blues Service
Oxford as in university; Blues as in the jazz idiom; Service as in church service.
I don’t suggest you run this link which played on BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong this afternoon (sic). But the opening piece is called ‘Gray skies passing over’, apparently based on Duke Ellington’s words ‘Gray skies are just clouds passing over’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04d6c98/p04d6bxyN.B. If I remember right from the boat race, Oxford blue is the light one..
Spooky, Hans. Hopefully he is just a Halloween clown. The thought of a Cloud Terminator is unsettling.
N.B. Michael Portillo talked of Delft Blue
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0816pb2MikeL, your Az clouds seem so complex compared to my UK ones. Waterfalls too, no less, a new twist. Many thanks.
‘H’
