Couple of artsy cloud shots from yesterday among a couple of others

12:49 PM. Wow, look how much thicker a seemingly uniformly thing layer of Altocumulus perlucidus is in those dark areas!! Not! Those are shadows from a higher splotches of CIrrus, some of the "uncinus" variety. — 12:49 PM. Wow, look how much thicker a seemingly uniformly thing layer of Altocumulus perlucidus is in those dark areas!! Not! Those are shadows from a higher splotches of CIrrus, some of the “uncinus” species. This is what I do here, try to pull a fast one on you.

12:02 PM. The prior shot was looking S under the Ac per layer. Here's what the sky looked like to the N, providing the explanation for dark spots in that Ac layer. Haha, really fooled you at first! — 12:02 PM. The prior shot was looking S under the Ac per layer later in the day. Here’s what the sky looked like to the N a little earlier, providing the explanation for dark spots in that Ac layer. Haha, really fooled you at first!

Now, we take this break for art, and not fun:

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Some water was still flowing in one of the little creek tributaries to the Sutherland Wash yesterday. Nice.

2:01 PM. Short-lived patch of Cirrocumulus (right) with larger Altocumulus elements (left) all at the same level. Also, if you can find it, and aircraft-produced patch of ice. Testing 1-2-3..... — 2:01 PM. Short-lived patch of Cirrocumulus undulatus (right) with larger Altocumulus elements (left) all at the same level. Also, if you can find it, and aircraft-produced patch of ice. Testing 1-2-3…..

Big rains in Cal mountains and Bay Area, some hill totals over 6 inches past 24 h, lower sites, 1-3 inches. Floody rains will take a big bite of out of drought during the nest 12-14 days.

Nothin’ reliably seen here, though, except passing high and middle clouds.

The End

By Art Rangno

Retiree from a group specializing in airborne measurements of clouds and aerosols at the University of Washington (Cloud and Aerosol Research Group). The projects in which I participated were in many countries; from the Arctic to Brazil, from the Marshall Islands to South Africa.

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2 comments

It looks warm in your area these days, Art.(looking at your photos) I haven’t seen the ground free of snow since December 5th. If we had started the month that day instead of the 1st, this would have been the coldest month I’ve recorded in 42 years here.

Hi, Roland,

Wow, sounds “2kold4me” up there, Roland! I’m cold when its below 60° F now days and there is the least wind. And to think it could have been such a cold month up there. I did not know that.

Thanks,

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