Odds & Ends # 37
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There is already a fairly new Odds and Ends 36 thread. Why did you go down a number / extend from an older Odds and Ends thread?
Odds and Ends 35 already exists and was started by you Hygge and last modified on 2nd January: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/forums/topic/odds-ends-35/
Odds and Ends 36 is here and still only contains a few posts: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/forums/topic/odds-ends-36/No idea why Odds and Ends 34 has jumped the gun. I wonder why the most recent poster didn’t use the most recent Odds and Ends thread?
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I stumbled across this which I thought was an interesting string of pictures since we are familiar with MikeL’s pics from Phoenix, Az.
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Lime hawk-moth
Moderator Poth said we could put non-cloud things here, so.
http://ukmoths.org.uk/species/mimas-tiliae/#prettyPhoto%5Bgallery%5D/0/
I was amazed to find myself standing next to one of these beauties on my neighbour’s porch on a recent afternoon. I got a snap but this link is better. Supposedly quite common, where have they been all my life?
Any remarkable live nature seen by any of you, please? (I seem to remember flying clouds of insects from Andrew Kirk and Mike Lerch?)
‘H’
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Frank Delargy – I was looking for his image of The Milky Way as in The Times, but this photographer has some dramatic clouds:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=frank+delargy&biw=1145&bih=851&tbm=isch&imgil=f9pBg1-QKetJIM%253A%253B6JxjtGvCjZpscM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.pinterest.com%25252Fpin%25252F183029172332667099%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=f9pBg1-QKetJIM%253A%252C6JxjtGvCjZpscM%252C_&usg=__8R37pH4LVgHB11_wYnsi2GvR65k%3D&ved=0ahUKEwjXnfq96ofNAhWEC8AKHSkmDtgQyjcIPg&ei=nltPV9fWG4SXgAapzLjADQ#imgrc=f9pBg1-QKetJIM%3A -
The Times (UK) today has a photo of geese at dawn. I can’t find it, but these stock photos are the same photographer Cernan Elias
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Here is a timelapse from today in the Harrow, Middlesex area looking NNE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umSw87KynvQ
It starts late morning as early cloud dissolves in a rather pleasing way revealing an upper cirrus layer with a different wind direction. Then a boring stretch as the sun heats the ground up and clouds start to bubble. Then around 1m30s the clouds really start to tower and get violently interesting. At 2 minutes some seriously explosive cloud towers form. A short while later (mid afternoon) a seriously heavy downpour arrives accompanied by lightning (not captured by the timelapse alas). After a couple of hours of heavy rain the entire garden, garage and front driveway are underwater as the drains get overwhelmed. Given how long my window gets soaked at 1 frame every 5 seconds, that was a massive shower. Then I end the clip as the sky clears to blue at the end. Enjoy!
-Mike
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Mike, I think your advice re my ‘no video picture’ problem is probably good, and I will empty my ‘cache and cookies’ if I can only find out how on Windows 10.
Meanwhile, this Austrian climber Mitch Kemeter (q.v.) seems to go to great (vertical) lengths to spot clouds (and sometimes jumps back down):
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Hygge – read all about it:
Abrahams discussed the book (briefly) on the BBC World Service about 21.24 BST today.
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Not recommended for clouds, but about 35 minutes into the Germany Highlights programme they briefly show how they use a drone to film the rally cars. It appears you need two people, a pilot and a cameraman:
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Ball lightning
Paul Simons, Weather Eye, The Times (UK) 29AUG16, wrote about the effects of ball lightning on two ships. The second one was moored off Portsmouth (UK) on 19FEB1809, HMS Warren Hastings. Three balls of fire hit it – Wired has an article which references it:
https://www.wired.com/2009/02/great-balls-of/
P.S. I wrote the https link – presumably CAS replaced the link by the headline.
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Cumulus with fumulus?
http://www.wessextoday.co.uk/yeovilton-air-show-2016.html
EDIT: The best laid plans. I was expecting to link to the two Polish planes – it turns out they are in the tenth row of pairs of pictures…
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1066 revisited – interesting cloud
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If your love of clouds extends to weather, this may be for you. I heard one programme today, Omnibus 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0801p40but not ‘In Cloudland’ as yet.
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Bubble scientist Helen Czerski said on radio that bubbles in the sea help form the clouds above
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081lpj1(Click ‘Show more’ below the picture for a summary).
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Drones
I can see drones becoming a bit of a nuisance (unless you know of a cloud appreciation use)
fleetlights: a prototype team of flying torch drones to guide the way at night
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The Forum on BBC World Service
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O&E used to be far more popular than of late. So here’s a poem with a great start
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Clouds as seen from aircraft (ICA V1 II.5) – the second picture (it blows up with Ctl+).
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spitfire-mary-reaches-for-the-skies-again-at-99-57935lbqj
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Predicting European Winters (technical)
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By its very nature this tends to look down and miss the clouds, but click on ‘up, up and away’ and there are one or two more horizontal landscape pictures.
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Are BBC Weather Forecasts too short?
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This fumulus pic appeared in The Times (UK) 9MAR17
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inmarsat+atlas+v&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju98j9v8rSAhVJJ8AKHTEuBmIQ7AkILw&biw=1091&bih=653&dpr=1.05#imgrc=1uTzQathV6vYbM: -
Malta loses the Azure Window
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The Azure Window collapse reminds me of another mourned natural formation which meant a lot to people, the Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire.
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Sunset near Sasebo in Nagasaki prefecture says The Times 15MAR2017
http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/u/fQYSUbVfts-T7odkrFJckdiFeHvab0GWOfzhj7tYdC0uglagsDtvekepbAF8xRM7uKwtagJ_RKYYfNRF0kRz35jfLDxEU0L30uyC9NPrOP_6T9tF7JmrZKG40bIjY5WThNuxyk99M7Kr5P9Omm3SbSt1nU6KuBpWzpEfFxjHp7g_WmMQ–zcnbDpaLvQY8XgQGVKBC1wPopb89WsjkesTh5wd24/ -
Magnum at 70
https://www.magnumphotos.com/theme/magnum-70-events/
Can’t point you to Magnum clouds; but let us know if you can.
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The Biblical 10 Plagues related to a volcanic eruption. Interesting, with some stormy clouds thrown in for good measure.
https://www.my5.tv/ancient-mysteries/season-2/the-ten-plagues-of-egypt -
Flammable ice
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-39971667
Coming into our lives. Picture looks like flammable cumulus…
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A similar picture appeared in The Times (UK) 30MAY2017. But clouds seem to be collateral.
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Wimbledon camera crews always have an eye on the sky and often give us good cloud shots. At the end of the men’s singles final, there was a one minute clip which was apparently the spot chosen to announce the reincarnated Dr Who. On return to Wimbledon the cameras morphed up into the 50 greys of muscular, but not yet duskular, cumulus – very suitable I thought.
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Stratocumulus stratocruiser, perhaps? A similar MacDiarmid combination was printed in The Sunday Times, UK, 23JUL2017, rather more stratiformis than this one.
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Interesting Weather Eye column 1AUG2017 (if you get past the barrier)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-chaotic-sky-for-cloudspotting-gltxs5c5f
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