In case you missed them…these stunning skies

Cirrus uncinus.   Started out looking like radiating lines of Cirrus, but this look is due to perpspective:

12:14 PM
12:14 PM
1:09 PM
1:09 PM
1:10 PM. Much later....
1:10 PM. Much later….  Well, in cloud time its much later because these guys will gone in a just a few minutes jetting along at 25,000 feet or so.  Note those tufts at the top suggest momentary liquid water followed by ice formation and fall out (in LONG strands).

Author: 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.