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Well, I don’t like to look a gift horse in the mouth. You contribute so much to the CAS Forum, MikeL, I don’t know how to say this. One rod, pole or perch is plain as a pikestaff, but barber’s pole?
‘H’
Hauge at Henge – that was a surprise, and you found some Great British clouds.
Thanks, Hauge – hygge
Hygge – read all about it:
Abrahams discussed the book (briefly) on the BBC World Service about 21.24 BST today.
S’Wonderful, MikeL. I have commented elsewhere on barber’s pole clouds – pity the term is already in use for something else (but almost as surreal).
Hallo, Maribel, and welcome. I think Hans is on the ball, and I agree it is a great picture.
Try CM9 ‘Altocumulus of a chaotic sky’ in this 4mb or so PDF
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/r/i/Cloud_types_for_observers.pdfThe PDF will give you loads of help, but in the old-fashioned way versus the new-fangled app (I am not familiar with apps).
Best of luck with your cloudspotting.
Ben, you are dead right, mighty interesting. Thank you.
It’s that London Bus Law – I have never heard of barber’s pole clouds and now two turn up.
The Cloud Collector’s Handbook (every CAS member should have a copy) says of Mamma ‘But mamma tend to form at the rear, rather than the front, of storms’. The photo by Mat Robinson headed Mamazing, and his comment, verifies that.
I was quite pleased to see the familiarity with cloud terminology.
One more time. Scroll down that alamy link and the white cottage(s) appear. Unfortunately the fuller picture with the cottage is not available for purchase for ‘Personal use’. Such is life.
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-lochaber-scotland-uk-2nd-august-2016-uk-weather-a-sunny-but-cold-6-113098623.htmlTony, thank you very much indeed – BINGO.
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-lochaber-scotland-uk-2nd-august-2016-uk-weather-a-sunny-but-cold-6-113098626.htmlIt is not the exact picture as printed, but the date and wording beneath the photo on the alamy site is convincing enough. As printed (and painted) it has one or two white cottages on the left and smallish trees to the right, but the foreground rock looks much the same as printed. My painting is from further back and has a wider span to left and, particularly, to right.
Iris ter Schiphorst ‘Gravitational Waves’
I think it may have been CAS Forum stalwart Andrew Kirk, a trained singer, who often related cloudspotting and music. So herewith music inspired by gravitational waves of the Einstein sort
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/834a7dca-06f1-4698-8729-c999a06d07d8You know, I can imagine two alternative lion faces:
1) I am looking down on the lion whose right eye is close to, but below, the centre (and perhaps twitching its nose)
2) That right eye is the tip of its tongue as it licks its chops whilst gazing to the rightApophenia gone mad. I should be more serious and admire MikeL’s perlucidus.
This is definitely one of my favourites, Matthew, and blows up well. I never saw anything like it when I was in Boulder, though that was in my pre-CAS days. I am no photographer, but apart from the obviously striking clouds and lighting, that horizon line with three objects (a nodding donkey and, perhaps, two cows) really adds to the picture.
Many thanks, ‘H’
This appears as the July picture in the CAS 2016 Calendar and I only just noticed its my local, so to speak. It just goes to show one should keep ones eyes peeled.
Mammatus formation over Totton, Southampton, UK. © Paul TownsendThank you for the enlightenment, Gavin.
Today, 160714, Paul Simons’ Weather Eye column in The Times (UK) features asperitas with reference to the Lyons pic. He writes about the CAS asperitas campaign and the CAS asperitas competition saying ‘The winner and runners-up can be seen at bit.ly/29uWprl ‘ (I don’t have much joy with such links and have not tested this one yet – I reckon the results can still be found on the CAS website, though). EDIT: sure enough my test failed.
He goes on to suggest a link twixt mammatus and asperitas (new to me). Lastly he mentions the WMO work and say its executive council will make the official decision soon.
