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This cloud settles in the valley overnight. Then during the morning it slowly rises.
You would think you can walk on it !!
Lenticular clouds, altocumulous lenticularis, formed in high winds, where laminar flows of air rise over a mountain and the drop in temperature causes water vapor to condense in layered clouds. These clouds are fairly common in the Eastern Sierra, often forming into long, linear "Sierra wave" formations parallel to and a few miles east of the Sierra Nevada.
I saw these clouds forming from my porch, so I headed down to the Lake to capture them evolving in a time-lapse sequence.
When I left on my day trip to Ya Ha Tinda, they sky was almost cloudless and I wondered if it was going to be worth going out. Then this guy showed up.
With the sun peeking out and exposing the dark cloud cover to the south, MCCHO rounds the curve at Algoa, coming off the Angleton Sub onto the BNSF for the run into Houston.
Algoa, TX 5/9/2020
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"When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills,
it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region,
earth being so intermixed with sky,
and gradually transformed into it."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Here's one I took coming back from the Royal Arch - I just sat and watched as this unfolded above the Flatirons after my hike. If you look hard you can see a very small cresent moon due to the extreme wide angle lens I was using.
We were decending through the cloud layer, the setting sun fell behind the clouds but the reflection was still strong on the ocean so I snapped this shot.
It's actually sharp enough to make out details of Downtown Del Mar, California. (may need to view large)
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” (Tagore).
Iridescent clouds are a beautiful phenomenon-but they're rarely seen and even less frequently photographed.
Iridescent clouds, known as "fire rainbows" or "rainbow clouds," occur when sunlight diffracts off water droplets in the atmosphere. And the recipe for these heavenly sights is actually pretty simple.
What happens is that the cumulus cloud, boiling upwards, pushes the air layers above it higher and higher. As the air gets pushed upwards, it expands and cools. And sometimes moisture in that air suddenly condenses into tiny droplets to form a cap cloud.
This "cap"—which scientists call a "pileus"—is the source of the brilliant spectacle.
The droplets in the cap cloud scatter sunlight to form the gorgeous colors.
I felt very lucky to have seen this. It's a very rare sight. California.
Another picture of the supercell over Aduard on 5 June, 2015. Unfortunately the quality of the photograph is subpar due to the variations in lighting levels along the length of the panorama.
Clearly visible is a mesocyclone in the form of a rotating wall cloud in the centre, which minutes previously had been much more prominent and, according to reports, reached about 70% to the ground.
Also clearly visible is an inflow tail and an RFD to the right, as well as a general inflow cloud, here coming in from the north/the right side of the picture. You can also see what is possible a sattelite rotation here.
O centro do Rio de Janeiro
Hoje omito minhas palavras,
mas com uma vontade louca de gritar ao mundo...
Mataró (10/10/09)
En un tiempo bastaba clasificarlas en cuatro tipos: cirros,estratos,cúmulos y nimbos. Y bastaban para predecir el clima. Ahora se las agrupa por lo menos en cirros-estratos,altos-cúmulus, altos estratos,estratos-cúmulos, cirros-cúmulos,cúmulos-nimbos, y los pronósticos se han hecho muy inciertos. Parece que hasta las nubes se han complicado.
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