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).

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.