About real clouds, weather, cloud seeding and science autobio life stories by WMO consolation prize-winning meteorologist, Art Rangno
Post includes rainbow photos for popularity’s sake; 0.14 inches of rain (what other “inches” of something would it be?) dampens Sutherland Heights
Nothing much else here of too much interest except the usual cloud blabber… haha
7:00 PM.7:04 PM. Hope you saw these!5:50 AM. Moon dodging clouds, Altocumulus ones. Moon dodgers? Did you know that the University of Washington sport’s teams were once known as the “Sun Dodgers”? How funny izzat? It’s truly amazing to me what you learn here.2:47 PM. Icy tops move toward the Catalina Mountains.3:54 PM. Not much going on over the Catalinas. But, can you spot the first ice from these clouds? You’d have to be pretty darn good to do that.3:54 PM. Zooming…. There it is! Have to look hard for the arrow and the bit of ice haze below that flat section. This would be a great ob day for an aircraft, since it would mark the threshold of temperature where ice is starting to form. Deeper, colder clouds from this threshold level would have more ice, a lot more. This level can vary from day to day, depending mostly on the sizes of droplets in clouds. With bases near freezing yesterday, this level would likely have been at the -12° to -15°C level, up around 20,000 feet above sea level. Bases were around 14,500 feet above sea level.5:23 PM. Nice lighting. I like lighting and lightning, no so much lightening, since a storm could be ending then, or if its around dawn, its OK. You can see two eyes, squinting….5:43 PM. Nice base streaming from Pusch Ridge enlarges as it came almost overhead! Looks promising for a SPKL. Moving car out from carport so’s I don’t miss a few drops.5:54 PM. Fine strands of rain now becoming visible!6:19 PM. Strands of rain in full display in RW-. Its measuring, not just a few drops! Need to roll up windows in car!7:13 PM. Not much happened just a little west of Catalina. Nice sunset, too.
Looks like another day for a chance of rain late….
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.
Right! We’re drying out here, August rainfall way behind with no appreciable uptick in sight.
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Thanks for the rain, Art! It wasn’t much here(less than half an inch) but combined with the wind , it cleared out the smoke, and now my town looks like Vancouver again, and not Toronto or Bejing.
Hi, Roland,
Glad to hear that those smoky days where Vancouver reminded you of Beijing and Toronto are gone at last. That was a pretty vivid comparison about how bad it was…
Send the rain up here, Art! (but don’t overdo it)
Right! We’re drying out here, August rainfall way behind with no appreciable uptick in sight.
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Thanks for the rain, Art! It wasn’t much here(less than half an inch) but combined with the wind , it cleared out the smoke, and now my town looks like Vancouver again, and not Toronto or Bejing.
Hi, Roland,
Glad to hear that those smoky days where Vancouver reminded you of Beijing and Toronto are gone at last. That was a pretty vivid comparison about how bad it was…
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