The End (of the cloud discussion) New “not pubbed” item: I’ve added RViewpoint_10-24-06_submitted date Aug 31, 2006_final, something that’s been sitting around for years! Spent a lot of time writing it, but ultimately deemed it a hopeless task that it would be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteor. Soc. under then current… Continue reading Some recent clouds I have known; updating “not pubbed” list
Category: Cloud seeding
About ice-in-clouds and APIPs (or high temperature contrails)
How cold were those Cc clouds? See below. (Begin technical module) In the mid- -20s C, around -15 F. Height, about 21,000 feet… Continue reading About ice-in-clouds and APIPs (or high temperature contrails)
Dull cool day and blog, book-ended by a nice sunrise and a nice sunset
Here we go…..some pretty, but also dull, photos, along with some novella-sized captions as mind wandered into the obtuse while writing them. That’s about it. No use talking about the rain ahead again. Seems to be a couple chances between the 20th and the 30th. The End —————————- 1You can make a cloud snow… Continue reading Dull cool day and blog, book-ended by a nice sunrise and a nice sunset
Encore of disappointment
Yesterday afternoon and evening were remarkably similar to the day before; great, spectacular banks of brilliant white turrets with black bases approached from the northeast filled with rainy portent, but, as with that previous day, disappointed. Once again, those clouds tended to fade some as they much beyond the Catalina Mountains, southwestward across Catalina,… Continue reading Encore of disappointment
Cirrus at 40,000; a science story about a death prediction
Here they are: Still no rain in the two week model “headlights”…and believe me I look for it. A science story While we’re waiting for “weather”, I thought I would partially bore you with another science story. I am supposed to be dead by now, well, within 5-10 years after 2003 due to the development… Continue reading Cirrus at 40,000; a science story about a death prediction
One of the greatest Seattle days in the history of Catalina, Arizona
Yesterday, that is. It felt like I never left. Only 49 F here; was 55 F in Seattle yesterday. But the main thing that made it seem “so Seattle” was the persistent low Stratocumulus overcast, almost no sun whatsoever, and a little rain. We picked up another 0.03 inches in a couple of morning episodes… Continue reading One of the greatest Seattle days in the history of Catalina, Arizona
Seeing red
Well, here it is, the NOAA Catalina spaghetti output for March 8th, 5 PM AST, hold the sauce: The plot at left, with likely a Guinness record for a long, thin caption, pretty much guarantees a big trough of cold air here by then, another door opens into winter, which seems to be gone right… Continue reading Seeing red
Stratiform clouds bring steady rain and snow; sixteen hundredths to Catalina
“Sixteen hundredths”, originally a song by a boy group of that day so long ago, The Crests, about a light rain that fell in May in southern California, an event that is quite rare and exciting at that time of the year there. But then practical and marketing considerations caused the song to be… Continue reading Stratiform clouds bring steady rain and snow; sixteen hundredths to Catalina
Climate kerfluffle reprised in southern hemisphere
With no rain in sight, and only modest temperature fluctuations ahead, some reading material is presented to you today with commentary today, a “soapbox day.” Cloud photos from yesterday are at the bottom if you want to skip to that and avoid thinking about things because its too early in the morning to get riled… Continue reading Climate kerfluffle reprised in southern hemisphere
El Nino may be in the works for next winter; stories from the field
Here you can read the latest statement from the Climate Prediction Center on the neutral conditions that have developed in the eastern Pacific Ocean–La Nina is gone–and what it sees for next winter from their computer models. While things are not clear because they are so difficult to foretell, they are talkin’ El Nino some. As we… Continue reading El Nino may be in the works for next winter; stories from the field