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Powering up
Not much going on lately, so will dip into the archives from two days ago. One cloud in particular was so spectacular in its defiance of gravity, rocketing upward the morning of the 4th. So here are shots from that day…
6:46 AM, Aug. 4: The day began with a pretty normal looking patch of Altocumulus perlucidus (honey-comb pattern). No virga, so its likely not too cold. The sounding suggests it was up at 16,000 feet ASL, or 13 kft above Catalina at about 0°C (32 F).
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.
Great play-by-play narrative of this cloud, Art. Thanks!
But there’s a Latin term in there (you know which one) that is not in the new WMO Cloud Atlas!
Cheers from the cloud-free, smoked-out PNW.
Yeah, and since WA is a pot smokin’ state, who nose how much of that is embedded in the smoke from BC, causing strange thoughts.
Yes, I slipped in a new, unauthorized term cloud variety descriptor, influenced by both TEEVEE commercials for a certain male pill, and the thinking about the many shades of gray (or is it, Grey?) in clouds.
Great play-by-play narrative of this cloud, Art. Thanks!
But there’s a Latin term in there (you know which one) that is not in the new WMO Cloud Atlas!
Cheers from the cloud-free, smoked-out PNW.
Yeah, and since WA is a pot smokin’ state, who nose how much of that is embedded in the smoke from BC, causing strange thoughts.
Yes, I slipped in a new, unauthorized term cloud variety descriptor, influenced by both TEEVEE commercials for a certain male pill, and the thinking about the many shades of gray (or is it, Grey?) in clouds.
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