Apparently the castellanus formations went over during the nighttime hours when we couldn’t see them… But it was a fabulous day again of interesting high and middle cloud flecks anyway. Below, a reprise of yesterday’s clouds starting with that delicate patch of Cirrus passing over the Catalina Mountains with its tiny fibers of Cirrus… Continue reading Pretty skies, but no castellanus (again)
Category: Contrails
Cloud quiz
While waiting for the rain, here are some of yesterday’s clouds. What were they? Answers printed upside down at the bottom except that WordPress wouldn’t let me do that. It would be great if you turned your monitor upside down before you looked at the answers. One is a trick “question” because I took a… Continue reading Cloud quiz
Complications in the sky
First of all, let me assure quesy readers that the jet leaving the contrail at left was not “flaming out” and about to crash as it traversed the sky at this time, as the staccato nature of the contrail at left might suggest. The staccato nature of the contrail is due to vagaries of humidity… Continue reading Complications in the sky
Distracted jet pilots or WHAT?
Now here’s something I have NOT seen before, which is pretty hard to have happen after decades of photographing the sky. Here’s what I saw around 1:30 PM yesterday over Catalina. I took three photos starting at 1:27 PM, 1:31 PM and 1:37 PM. Here they are: So, how to explain this odd “stitched”… Continue reading Distracted jet pilots or WHAT?
More about holes-in-clouds while we’re waiting for the AZ rain in a few days
There have been a coupla comments on that aircraft effect in clouds blog of a coupla weeks ago and so I thought I would follow up with this sequence from the Atmos Sci Building rooftop at the University of Washington where I spent most of my time instead of at my desk.1 Here is a… Continue reading More about holes-in-clouds while we’re waiting for the AZ rain in a few days
What’s Up with This?
Got pretty mad yesterday when I saw this overhead in some Altocumulus perlucidus clouds. You’ll have to hold your monitor or Ipad, or cell phone, or whatever, over your head to see it EXACTLY the way I saw this because it WAS overhead; straight up. (Actually, doing 3 sets of 12 might be good for… Continue reading What’s Up with This?
Cirrus clouds overhead now
These clouds, the very first ones usually precursors of disturbances, are overhead now with the airways crossing Arizona evident in the “condensation trails” (contrails) showing their positions. FORTUNATELY (the writer despises contrails), there are few overhead of Catalina-Tucson area because there are few airways overhead. Most of our contrails are to the north of us,… Continue reading Cirrus clouds overhead now