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Lime hawk-moth
Moderator Poth said we could put non-cloud things here, so.
http://ukmoths.org.uk/species/mimas-tiliae/#prettyPhoto%5Bgallery%5D/0/
I was amazed to find myself standing next to one of these beauties on my neighbour’s porch on a recent afternoon. I got a snap but this link is better. Supposedly quite common, where have they been all my life?
Any remarkable live nature seen by any of you, please? (I seem to remember flying clouds of insects from Andrew Kirk and Mike Lerch?)
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Lighting Less Cloud – quick as a flash, MikeL, a neat phrase which Andrew Kirk would appreciate, I think, since he invented ‘duskular’. It serves well your purpose as you develop your Cloud Art Form.
I think ‘Cloudless lightning’ should more properly be called ‘Clear-air lightning’ e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning says:
‘Clear-air lightning describes lightning that occurs with no apparent cloud close enough to have produced it. In the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, a thunderstorm can be in an adjacent valley and not observable from the valley where the lightning bolt strikes, either visually or audibly. European and Asian mountainous areas experience similar events. Also in areas such as sounds, large lakes or open plains, when the storm cell is on the near horizon (within 26 kilometres (16 mi)) there may be some distant activity, a strike can occur and as the storm is so far away, the strike is referred to as a bolt from the blue.[56]’Paul Simons’ column Weather Eye in The Times (UK) 30MAY16 was devoted to the Euro lightning on Saturday last, but he does not mention clear-air lightning. I think he missed a trick (unlike MikeL).
I stumbled across this which I thought was an interesting string of pictures since we are familiar with MikeL’s pics from Phoenix, Az.
Wilko Johnson (pop musician q.v.) said on BBC Radio 4, that a brush with seemingly terminal cancer made him aware of nature in general and ‘inimical clouds’ in particular.
Very thought provoking, Hans. I don’t have your answer, but from Eric Wilcox ‘Clouds’ I wonder if your ‘roll’ is upwardly constrained by ‘a warm layer of stable air’. Then your eruption might be a bubble of turbulence which spurts up but soon dissipates?
Nice name, but is it on a hill with a view of clouds?
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/clouds-hill
The radio said Thomas Hardy loved clouds among other aspects of nature; I don’t think I have heard of clouds spouting before:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/50362
(N.B. If you go search you seem to lose anything just typed)
Apophenia
Wiki: Apophenia is the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random dataIt has been a while since apophenia appeared in the CAS Forum as a word for ‘clouds that look like things’. I think you have a good example of it, Emily, in linking Death Valley and a Norwegian fjord.
Sky Patrol from The Times (UK)
http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/raf-typhoons-intercept-russian-aircraft-near-baltics-13052016
‘below’ may no longer be valid since a reply moved Emily’s thread up.
This might tempt me back to school…
I can now use the CAS Forum search facility, but I don’t find it intuitive. When you click the magnifying glass (on the right) you get this dark grey bar above with another magnifying glass (on the left) with ‘Search’ next to it. It took me a while to work out I can just start typing the search term – I was moving the cursor etc. I think it is not intuitive to type within a grey bar – more often they are white? and outlined?
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I am at a bit of a disadvantage here since I do not get Cloud of The Day hence have not seen the aerial (I wonder if it is possible to post the link here when such a picture is discussed?).
But the general subject reminds of a favourite pop song ‘The Air That I Breathe’ by The Hollies:
MikeL’s floaters are great, I think.
And this time, Emily, my link seems to work – again a picture replaces the link but it plays OK. So perhaps CAS have updated.
Weather
#8 the supercell at Hugo, Okla, I liked
