In case you missed it: Some additional commentary about these scenes. One of the remarkable things about clouds, a real unknown, is how clouds such as Altocumulus (1st photo) can get so cold, colder than it was this mid-November in Wyoming, and can remain all or mostly water drops, which is what you are looking… Continue reading A day with an astounding sunrise and a mysterious linear feature
Category: Aircraft Produced Ice Particles
About ice-in-clouds and APIPs (or high temperature contrails)
How cold were those Cc clouds? See below. (Begin technical module) In the mid- -20s C, around -15 F. Height, about 21,000 feet… Continue reading About ice-in-clouds and APIPs (or high temperature contrails)
Dull cool day and blog, book-ended by a nice sunrise and a nice sunset
Here we go…..some pretty, but also dull, photos, along with some novella-sized captions as mind wandered into the obtuse while writing them. That’s about it. No use talking about the rain ahead again. Seems to be a couple chances between the 20th and the 30th. The End —————————- 1You can make a cloud snow… Continue reading Dull cool day and blog, book-ended by a nice sunrise and a nice sunset
Putting raingauge away now…
A measly 0.01 inches is all we got here yesterday in a Seattle-like rain from an overcast that sputtered drops drown over a couple of hours, one that could barely wet the pavement, if we had any here in Sutherland Heights. Of course, we surely drooled at the close call that drained Saddlebrooke yesterday afternoon… Continue reading Putting raingauge away now…
“Tom Thunder” strikes Catalina three times; rare contrail in video
Probably haven’t heard that name in a while. It kind of went along with “Old St. Nick”, “Jack Frost”, the kind of thing that we kids called things. Well, yesterday in the land of Catalina, we had three separate thunderstorms in about 8 h, all producing nearly continuous thunder, and when you could see it,… Continue reading “Tom Thunder” strikes Catalina three times; rare contrail in video
Cirrocumulus on display; icy Cumulus later today
Today’s clouds Today our passing cold-core trough is overhead and in the middle of it, the moisture is low enough to trigger Cumulus and small Cumulonimbus clouds as the middle and high clouds exit “stage right.” Should be an interesting day since these cumuliform clouds will be so high-based (above the Lemmon summit) and cold… Continue reading Cirrocumulus on display; icy Cumulus later today
Cool and pretty
I’m talking about your clouds and weather day yesterday, and definitely NOT about someone whom I shall call, “Sharon1“, that happened to me 33 years ago and whose birthday was yesterday, Ground Hog Day, a day commemorated by a 1993 movie about a weatherman. Seemed “right”, too, to be a weatherman with a girlfriend whose… Continue reading Cool and pretty
Airplanes slice through clouds; leave icy canals and trails
WHAT a gorgeous day was yesterday! Perfect. No wonder the northlanders come here in their droves now! Its great to see (via the increasingly larger number of out-of-state license plates) all the people that want to be where I am already! While waiting for the storms and cold air just ahead now, this cloud commentary:… Continue reading Airplanes slice through clouds; leave icy canals and trails
Cooler now, but windy, ovenly conditions just ahead
Here is the temperature change from yesterday morning at this time to today at this time, courtesy of The Weather Channel and due to that dry cool front that went through yesterday. Its about 8 degrees cooler this morning here in Catalina compared to yesterday at this same time. Nice. But, its back to above… Continue reading Cooler now, but windy, ovenly conditions just ahead
Jeckyll-Hyde models have future AZ rain once more after Big Miss today
Trying to feel better today about the huge miss, that “gutter ball” low that is slipping down the Baja coast toward MMZT (“Mazatlan” in weather identifier jargon) right now as I write, and trying to forget about what it could have been. Reminds me, too, of that critical dropped pass in the Superbowl by some… Continue reading Jeckyll-Hyde models have future AZ rain once more after Big Miss today