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I checked the Thornes link briefly, Tom, but don’t feel cultural tonight. On the old Forum about 4/2010, I posted:
‘I saw on TV recently (Countryfile ?) a local expert pointing out that Constable minimised tree leaves so that the tree skeleton would show e.g. the Haywain in mid-summer. So what did he want to bring out in his clouds, I wonder.’
‘H’G, G, tonight the first link to BBC iPlayer works, but still not the other two (I get that little yellow explosion). Curiouser and curiouser.
Gini your two pix give me a good feel for what might have been here in Hants, and are the only ones I have seen of the SW. I know it is silly but today I checked where the sun would have been yesterday, and it would have been visible through the tree tops, of course. My Stratus nebulosus was very opacus.
Off-topic, I hope you heard Jazz Line-up on BBC R3 today, Gini. Some very eclectic guitar from an all-star trio. You are doubtless more familiar with Wolfgang Muthspiel’s work than I; if you missed it there is a clip here of a piece they played, Cambiata
(AFICIONADOS ONLY):
http://www.last.fm/music/Wolfgang+Muthspiel+TrioYou are right, Mike, stratus in Hampshire, UK; but I heard it was visible at Stonehenge in neighbouring Wiltshire, so near but so far. And I did hear CAS No 1 on the Today program, so some consolation.
EDIT: But none of CAS No 1’s three links above are working for me.
Bill, I hear what you are saying; CAS Member No. 1 went across the world to see The Morning Glory cloud. Autumn 2006 was a cracker for a particular tree, but it has not repeated it since. Hygge lives around latitude 51 degrees; a Hampshire Hog.
As I said to Tom, I am not much help. But having been through Poth’s comments with two overlapping windows on my laptop, I would say Poth did a good job.
As per the Handbook, Cu should have flat bases (perhaps a guideline more than a rule). They form a few hours after daybreak on thermals, dissipating before sundown.
Bill, your data will be an excellent reference for this Forum. I note you say NLC are quite common in the N Hemisphere (I have not seen them). I just posted in the Above The Clouds topic a random set of pictures from the CAS Gallery, all by Captain Ghorbal – of the ten pictures, two are NLC. (He was active 2008 – 2010).
Wonderful stuff in your gallery, GP-P. Another way to search it is to track a particular person e.g. here at random Captain Richard Ghorbal:
Dust Cloud Video
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8131323/dust-sahara-amazon-rainforest
I thought the event so outstanding as to be worthy of a second link. Some pictures are the same, but many different (even a drone towards the end):
Poth, at the Serpentine Galleries right now there is an exhibition called ‘Boomerang’ by Cameroonian artist Pascale Martine Tayou. One work is a cumulus cloud sculpture much as your post above, but pierced by what seem to be wooden stakes. It is not an easy website to view, I guess they want you to go and pay up.
Flap Dance
Then there is always the converse – the one that got away. When MikeL was catching fog in Phoenix I came to the top of a slope and a break in the trees. The whole of the South East had the finest undulatus I have ever seen. I always carry a shirt pocket camera (no smartphone) but it wasn’t in the windcheater pocket it should have been in. The resulting flailing of hands around other pockets then jumping up and down with fury is what I call the flap dance. You see something similar when they misplace their wallet, smartphone etc.
Fair enough, MikeL, and thank you. As for the last one, like the Handbook says ‘ominous shadowy base’, nothing mediocre about it. Certainly looks like it’s changing explosively. It’s a wow.
Tom, apart from observing most clouds are cumuliform, I think I can’t help much. The cumulus is realistic in as much as it is not all white but has shades of grey (I didn’t count).
I am new to this Forum’s technology, and in case others have the same problem (no in-line pictures or links to pictures) I will point out that you need to click on Tom’s Profile Picture to get to Tom’s Profile, then click on Album where all eight pictures are. Click on a picture and it will enlarge (then Ctl + will enlarge again (and again), Ctl – will reduce). To exit the picture click on Album and repeat with the next picture.
It was moderator Andrew Pothecary (Poth), I think, who pointed out that apophenia applied to clouds that look like things. When I looked it up I came across this MS Researcher, ‘Apophenia’, and her motto ‘making connections where none previously existed’:
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/
So I tend to think of it in terms of the motto; the warmer, dryer fohn causes earlier flowering, a connection which I had not known existed, and possibly other Forum members had not known either.
Anyway, participating in the Forum can but improve the mind. Q.E.D.
MikeL, I keep coming back to your beautiful opening shot in this topic, but it worries me you call it undulatus – I would have thought it is a classic lenticularis (hence orographic), better than much in the literature?
And while I am here, since you have never seen NLC (I guess it would not be expected at the latitude of Az) how did your topic get the tag ‘NLC noctilucent clouds monochrome imaging’? From you, from Bill, automatic? Are multiple tags merged into the one we see?
