About real clouds, weather, cloud seeding and science autobio life stories by WMO consolation prize-winning meteorologist, Art Rangno
Raining in puddle just ahead, but not on car; also, a horse picture
This was amazing. I approach one of the puddles on Equestrian Trail. I see that its raining HARD in the puddle. I am only 20 feet from it, but its not raining on my car! Here’s what that scene looked like:
How could this be? Of course, we’ve all seen heavy rain on the road and drove into it. But the illusion here that was so striking is that it only SEEMED to be raining in the puddle, not around it since the drop splashes were not obvious as I drove up to it.
The rest of yesterday was pretty great, too, lots of rainbows, brilliant clouds and skies, too photogenic for a neurotic-compulsive photographer. However, one of 221 photos was of a human, a neighbor, not of clouds and rain shafts.
Here are a few too many cloud photos; excess is kind of a specialty of mine:
Lightly looking ahead
Still a lot of “troughy” weather ahead, and chance for decent November rains in the first half of the month after cold one goes by, followed by a short dry spell.
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.
Hi Art: have you ever come across a phenomena known as “point rainfall”? That is, rain that falls in a very localized area. I saw that happen once here in my neighbourhood. While it wasn’t literally a “point” in size (I estimated it was about the size of a football field) it was happening in front of my eyes, and it was fairly intense.
Hi Art: have you ever come across a phenomena known as “point rainfall”? That is, rain that falls in a very localized area. I saw that happen once here in my neighbourhood. While it wasn’t literally a “point” in size (I estimated it was about the size of a football field) it was happening in front of my eyes, and it was fairly intense.