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Pileus
Such a serene cloud you have there, Mike, almost lenticular and very unusual. But there is the associated Cu. I think its your being on the level that makes it stand out so unusually – most pics in the literature are taken from below and the pileus looks like a cap worn on the Cu, but it does not have to be. ICA Vol I, II.2.3.4, page 24 (hard copy) says:
Pileus
An accessory cloud of small horizontal extent, in the form of a cap or hood above the top or attached to the upper part of a cumuliform cloud which often penetrates it. Several pileus may fairly often be observed in superposition. Pileus occurs principally with Cumulus and Cumulonimbus.Fine shot. Thanks, Mike.
HH, I see the horse.
MikeL, I read in a business advert that there are now hybrid clouds, combining private, public and managed clouds. Perhaps your clouds are the private flavour?
I say flavour, choosing it over identity or sort, knowing that type is taken, as is class (perhaps), and stage is not relevant. But you-all out there might have a better word?
‘H’
Sorry, it is not the same Alexandra.
There are many eclipse pics on-line. I chose this for Glastonbury which was also on the front page of The Times (UK) today – but as was said in another context on TV today, don’t believe everything you read in The Times (they said rising moon, but surely it was setting if I was seeing it high at 10:50 p.m. as above):
Paul Simons Weather Eye talks of Christopher Columbus being aware of a pending lunar eclipse in 1504, to my surprise.
Gini, thanks for this report, and the other contributors as well. I am so glad it was a success. I still await the asperitas winner! And will there be Proceedings published one day?
If speaker Alexandra is one and the same as the astronomical Alexandra, she is going to have a very long day today as well, watching the super red moon (it is riding high right now, but I plan to be tucked up in bed in the wee small hours).
MikeL you have mastered the wracks as much as the high etage. You say ” The abundant amount of ” light” here in the desert finds it way thru the Thick of these wracks “; many of your pictures give the impression of being into the sun, but perhaps not?
I recently wished I had your skills to capture a late afternoon fair weather sky with Cu to the NE which displayed such a wonderful variety of size, shape, shine, shadow and tone, against touches of blue, as to take my breath away.
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Rugby players reach for buttermilk?
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/rugbyunion/article4560549.ece
(Apologies if The Times puts the kibosh on its pic)
MikeL’s pileus beauty was a CAS random opener recently. I have often told MikeL I do not see pileus over Hampshire, UK, even though it is supposed to be the most common ‘Accessory Clouds & Supp. Features’ for Genus Cumulus (CAS Handbook, Cloud Classification table p104).
I would now request a second opinion from the soaring King of Hampshire clouds, Mike – how often do you see pileus up there, please, Mike?
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Thank you, Gini. I will pass your words to SHHGA Education and if they would like some advice I will try and e-mail you via CAS.
The actual tree adoption timing is drifting out (I guess CAS are too busy right now). I forgot to say the tree, Acer platanoides ‘Globosum’, has a common name Lollipop (another is mop-head).
‘H’
Gini, I am going to fly with Mike.
But I am very glad you have resurfaced – I am sponsoring a project relating my two hobbies of clouds and trees. CAS have agreed to adopt a tree (a cultivar with a flat base habit like cotton wool clouds). If all goes to plan it could involve children and education. Do you still have a CAS Forum hat saying ‘Special Interest Education’? If so would you be prepared to act as CAS’ mentor to Hillier Gardens (which is not the same as Hillier Nurseries and Garden Centres), with your experience in teaching clouds to children? In the link below (the Schools and Learning tab) as part of the curriculum they teach is a section on Weather – I am hoping they will wish to emphasise clouds more specifically:
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/hilliergardens/hillier-schools.htm‘H’
OK, MikeL,I am with you now – you certainly got a great balance.
I was worried about whether my brains should have been wracked or racked (OED says its complicated but either will do) so I stumbled across the third OED explanation:
Wrack (also rack) n. a mass of high, thick, fast moving cloud.
That’s a new one on me.
Yeah, I agree Alex, though I swear I did test it. It was a kitten wearing your goggles. I guess you could find it amongst the Urban Graphics cards as I did, having seen the card in Waitrose, but perhaps no longer worth bothering since no clouds. Sorry.
What marvellous depths you plumb in your skies, MikeL. You capture the many patterns the clouds conjure up – and patterns they seem to be, seldom just random, often layered. I guess these are monochrome.
That being said your first picture is a first indeed for me – I am totally nonplussed. (That is in the OED sense, surprised, confused, flummoxed, not the American informal, unperturbed).
P.S. I was hearing on the BBC World Service Science Hour tonight about research aimed at exploiting the infra-red technology largely lying dormant (since our eyes don’t see it) within our mobile phones (for farming). Are you able to shoot clouds in the infra-red, I wonder, MikeL? I guess it is unlikely without software to make it visible.
P.P.S. I have been racking my brains to overheated as to your title…
