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Maloja Serpent
It appeared on the Old Forum, but this is a different picture:
Thanks for that Mike. Probably a coincidence that this picture, the CAS Forum log-on picture just now, bears some similarity:
122°F around 50°C
In the context of the current European heat wave (a brief one I hope) I decided to look up what MikeL might be getting in Phoenix, Az. I checked the U.S. climatic data in my book Weather (from the contributors of the (US I assume) Weather Guide Calendar). I was amazed to see the Record Max Temperature (°F) for June was 122. I thought I would double check that on Google and it’s correct – 26 June 1990. Actually I think it was also the all time record.
https://phoenix-az.knoji.com/10-alltime-hottest-weather-temperature-days-in-phoenix/
Certainly did enjoy it, Quest. Thank you and welcome. I did wonder if something similar was happening round the next headland too. Any idea where it was?
‘H’
Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife
Our belief in the future for our families and mankind in general makes us care about climate change argues philosopher (towards the end of the discussion):
Moi
An elderly neighbour fell down her front step on to a tarmac path; she was not badly hurt but while we were waiting for the emergency services I stood behind her so that she could lean back against my legs. As I mentioned to her and her sister, the casualty was looking at the garage wall whilst I had a lovely view of the CH1 (*) type western sky on a balmy afternoon.
* For CH1 see pages 89 – 92:
International Cloud Atlas
Volume II (pictures) (10mb). The List of Plates appears at the end.
http://library.wmo.int/pmb_ged/wmo_407_en-v2.pdf
* Or also for CH1 see page 31 (hardcopy, slightly different in PDF):
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/r/i/Cloud_types_for_observers.pdf
Nonchalant
President Obama cloudspotting whilst apparently listening to Chancellor Merkel
And aurora borealis too?
I suppose the two are not incompatible? The aurora was seen on the UK south coast:
It is not as rare as fog in Phoenix, the link suggests.
I’ll search for my thinking hat, Nicholas. Veeery interesting as Laugh In might have said.
Meanwhile, steady as she goes, boyo – some simpler fumulus:
Head In The Clouds
I was looking for a Glover review, but not this one; yet I have to mention it because of the title.
However, CAVEAT EMPTOR. There are no clouds in the review, or in the referenced sculpture. The artist is labelled a surrealist…
Glover mentions humourist Tony Hancock, which gives me an excuse to blog what I thought was an amusing, not untypical, Hancock joke I heard this Magna Carta week on BBC. Hancock says to his associates ‘Do you know nothing of Magna Carta – did she die in vain?’
I mention AK above in the dawn context, and I am sure MikeL will not mind my highlighting this AK picture. It appears in the CAS 2015 Calendar as the January picture where it mentions AK’s dawn routine – but the dawn walk is not mentioned in the CAS Gallery caption:
MikeL, you and AK put some of us sleepyheads to shame in your dawn forages for clouds. You seem to imply the undulatus was scarce visible to the naked eye?
This link by two astronomers says Stonehenge is falsely associated with Druids and the summer solstice dawn – in fact it was built for Sunset at the winter solstice and Druids only came on the scene 2000 years later:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stargazing-in-june-from-the-summer-solstice-to-a-cosmic-embrace-10287995.htmlThe link also discusses Jupiter and Venus in their cosmic embrace 30 June – now didn’t a certain someone capture that last year?
Great stuff – many thanks MikeL.
Just to make sure no one misses this NLC, random on the CAS Home page, from the island of some of my ancestors.
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/photo-n-3166/
It must be the time of year to keep your eyes peeled (and report back here)
When Jimmy Wales was asked about the future of the internet he said ‘Android mobile’. Perhaps this is why:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/28/google-io-watch-live
