“All it was was dust in the wind” , recalling that tuneful song about large aerosol particles by the rock group, Kansas. Note: Their first album was incredible! (This lead in, in case you thought that yesterday evening’s haze was smoke from our awful fires.) Here’s the change from two evenings ago to last… Continue reading Dust in the wind; model rain on the distant horizon
Category: Aerosols
“Smoke gets in your skies”
Remember that great Harold Arlyn song about smog? He was pretty upset when he wrote it I would imagine. Btw, the song was covered later in the 1950s by a group called The Platters… Below we have a shot of some late afternoon pretty, undulating Cirrus or Cirrostratus… (NOT!) That was a trick question, actually… Continue reading “Smoke gets in your skies”
The Twelve…rain drops in Catalina, that is
Well, maybe there were about 27, but anyway….not very many; still, those drops were to be treasured after not seeing a single “hydrometeor” display in SE AZ in so–ooooo LONG A TIME! ———————————- PG-13 advisory; DRIZZLE is discussed I have to warn you at this point. That rain event yesterday WAS NOT DRIZZLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will… Continue reading The Twelve…rain drops in Catalina, that is
Was it smog or dust? How to tell
OK, climbing down off soapbox today….just don’t read the Hockey Stick Illusion by A. W. Montford unless you want to be upset by some climate scientists pretending to be scientists when they are being something antithetical to science. Reminds me of the 30-odd years of cloud seeding reanalysis experiences I had as a skeptic in… Continue reading Was it smog or dust? How to tell
Catalina-Smog before the storm
Those of us awaking this morning were literally a-palled by the amount of smoke around. Not even Twin Peaks was visible, some 10 miles to the SW. See examples of smog in the photos below. Where did it come from? Back trajectories, ones that end in Tucson as of this morning at 5 AM shown… Continue reading Catalina-Smog before the storm