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It's really hard to predict when a sunset will be good for stacking. I thought that last time lapse would come out well in lighten mode, but actually darken mode worked better. This picture is the result f keeping the darkest pixel at each point of the previous time lapse video (and then boosting brightness and colors, which tend to come out dark and muddy from all the blending). You can also see the paths of a bird and a rower on the water.
This Autumn photo, after so many gray and cold winter days... these colors calm the mind. Six more weeks of winter, the groundhog predicted today. But spring will come soon.
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During sunset, a cloud flew in in an amazing shape (a bird, a dragon, and maybe an angel ...)
A little understanding of the physics of cloud formation underscores the complexity of the atmosphere and sheds light on why predicting weather for more than a few days is such a challenge.
Six types of clouds you can see and how they can help you understand the weather.
1) Cumulus clouds - On a sunny day, rays warm the earth, which heats the air located directly above it. The heated air rises upward due to convection and forms cumulus clouds. These “good weather” clouds are like cotton wool. If you look at the sky filled with cumulus clouds, you can see that they have a flat bottom, located at the same level for all clouds. At this altitude, air rising from ground level cools down to the dew point. It usually doesn't rain from cumulus clouds, which means the weather will be good.
2) Cumulonimbus clouds.
Small cumulus clouds do not rain, but if they grow and grow in height, it is a sign that heavy rain is coming soon. This often happens in summer when morning cumulus clouds turn into cumulonimbus during the day. Cumulonimbus clouds often have a flat top. Air convection occurs inside such a cloud, and it gradually cools until it reaches the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere. At this moment, it loses its buoyancy and can no longer rise higher. Instead, it spreads out to the sides, forming the characteristic anvil shape.
3) Cirrus clouds form in very high layers of the atmosphere. They are smoky because they are composed entirely of ice crystals falling in the atmosphere. When cirrus clouds are carried by winds moving at different speeds, they take on a characteristic curved shape. And only at very high altitudes or at high latitudes, cirrus clouds give out rain that reaches the ground.
4) Stratus Clouds - A low-lying, continuous cloud sheet that covers the sky. Stratus clouds are formed by slowly rising air or gentle winds that cover the cold land or sea surface with moist air. Stratus clouds are thin, therefore, despite the gloomy picture, it is unlikely to rain from them, a little drizzle at most. Stratus clouds are identical to fog, so if you've ever walked in a mountainous area on a foggy day, you've been inside a cloud.
5) Lenticular clouds. Smooth and lenticular lenticular clouds form when air is blown up and over a mountain range, and as it travels over a mountain, the air descends to its previous level. At this time, it heats up and the cloud evaporates. But it can slip further, as a result of which the air rises again and forms another lenticular cloud. This can result in a chain of clouds extending far beyond the mountain range. The interaction of wind with mountains and other surface features is one of the many details that must be taken into account in computer simulations to obtain accurate weather predictions.
6) Kelvin - Helmholtz like a breaking ocean wave. When air masses at different heights move horizontally at different speeds, their state becomes unstable. The boundary between the air masses begins to ripple and form large waves, such clouds are quite rare.
The photo was taken in the city of Konakovo. Russia. On the banks of the Volga River.
because of the ongoing rhino massacre some experts predict that we might face extinction within the next decade......
This newborn White Rhino calf in Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa is a sign of hope in these gloomy times for rhinos.
A week before this one we also spotted a newborn calf in a game reserve in the Eastern Cape while we were tracking White Rhino on foot with a specialist ranger.
IUCN RED LIST STATUS: NEAR THREATENED
Square-lipped Rhinoceros, also called White Rhinoceros
ceratotherium simum
witte neushoorn
rhinocéros blanc
Breitmaulnashorn
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TUNE
MANX SHEARWATER HORROR !!
MORE PUFFIN FACTS !
Puffins are in sharp decline, but not at Skomer, because they only have Gulls as predictors, no rats, mice, fox, or Stoats or weasels.
Pufflets need three feeds per day, and the Gulls will stand in front of their holes, as seen above, and try to get the adult Puffin to drop its hard won sand ells. And if a young chick
ventures near the hole entrance, like this Manx chick, while parents are fishing, this is want happens, not a pretty sight, as other gulls try to get this very young one, as it gets torn to bits.
A visit to a Lesser Black-Backed Gull colony, such as Skomer Island is a memorable experience!
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The groundhog predicted an early spring here in Ottawa. Right now we’re being hit by another big snowstorm and I’m not very optimistic about the prediction. I haven’t been able to take many photos with the frigid temps and cold this winter so I’ll be digging into my older files for a while.
Here’s hoping this little gosling will bring some luck and is taking his first tentative step forward into spring!
Have a great weekend Flickr friends. Tina and the Puglets xo
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08-november-2021: in the beautiful mountain environment between "Sella Nevea" Ski Resort (1162m a.s.l.) and Plains (1551m a.s.l.) of mount "Jôf di Montasio" (2754m a.s.l.), the summit in the background of this shot.
We are off on a birding trip to British Columbia! I won’t have much time to enjoy all your new photos until our return in mid-June. The trip couldn’t have come at a better time. A microburst storm went through our area in Saturday and we, along with most of the city and across the river in Quebec, have been without power since 15:45, May 21. Internet connection almost non-existent. So much damage that the hydro company cannot predict when repairs will be complete. The airport is mostly operational, thank goodness :)
Ottawa International Airport, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. May 23, 2022.
A migratory bird that is famous for appearing just before the start of the rainy season. In the countryside, people still predict rains by its sightings. It migrates all the way to Africa and comes back to India just in time for the rains and of course, the breeding season.
This is a brood parasite and lays its eggs in other birds nests. It would eat one of the hosts eggs and drop its own in them. This bird prefers Bulbuls, both Red Vented and White throated, tailorbird etc.. for hosts. The area I visited y'day had maybe 3-4 of these cuckoos and the place was quite active with small birds that are perfect for these Cuckoo's to lay their eggs. They flew around slowly picking up food from various bushes and surveyed the area. The bulbuls sighted them and tried to chase these cuckoos away with limited success.
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Well it certainly took a little longer than the predicted 5hr journey time to get there. Nine hours with only one stop for coffee and recharge the battery for my phone.
Two bad accidents on the A19 and the M90 created tailbacks for over ten miles. On both occasions we stood still for over an hour.
So you can appreciate the delight the next morning, when we were treated to this beautiful sunrise behind the castle.
Named after it's Gaelic name, Dun Fhoithear, literally meaning "fort on the shelving slope"
As far as castles go, it's difficult to imagine a more remote and dramatic location than Dunnatar.
Perhaps with the most impenetrable position of all Scottish castles, this one sits on top of it's own cliff peninsular on the road to Aberdeen, defended on all sides by the forces of nature.
Dunnatar Castle also comes with a good dose of dastardly history with an intrepid mix of torching, smuggling and pillaging.
Add to this some seriously stunning scenery and vistas to rival the best.
There are 50metre high cliffs on three sides of the site. While those are pounded by the North Sea, the fourth is joined to the land. This section was once a peninsular, but it's access was destroyed in favour of a cliff pathway. As a result you can only reach Dunnatar via a narrow, twisting route that ends in a tunnel, making it one of the most difficult Scottish castles to get into.
Strong winds and rain predicted for today and this evening, so Marnie and I had a good walk this morning. Here's my goodbye to 2024.
To be honest, I'm hoping the weather will be bad enough this evening to put off lots of the fireworks, as they really do cause Marnie a lot of trauma, and therefore, me too !
Whatever the weather, have a good night and an even better 2025 my Flickr friends !
Thanks for all your support in 2024 -- so appreciated !
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En futurologie, la singularité est un concept selon lequel, à partir d'un point hypothétique de son évolution technologique, la civilisation humaine connaîtra une croissance technologique exponentielle, d'un ordre supérieur, qui, pour beaucoup, se nommerait intelligence artificielle. Au-delà de ce point, le progrès ne serait plus l'œuvre que d'intelligences artificielles, elles-mêmes en constante progression. Il induirait des changements tels sur la société humaine, que l'individu d'avant la Singularité ne peut ni les appréhender ni les prédire de manière fiable. Le risque pourrait en être la perte du pouvoir humain sur son destin. Les futurologues et les transhumanistes l'attendent en général pour la troisième décennie du XXIe siècle. Pour Ray Kurzweil, c'est l'instant de l'histoire où l'accélération technologique deviendra si rapide que tous nos modèles prédictifs actuels seront caducs. La Singularité incarnerait, d'une manière non anthropomorphique, l'intelligence à venir, enfin débarrassée de ses limites corporelles.
Le transhumanisme - Béatrice Jousset-Couturier
Rain was predicted, but look what we got! A beautiful day to be out and about and it didn't rain until we were back home.
I am wearing:
United Colors - Victoria dress- exclusive for Kustom9 (NEW)
Wasabi Pills hair - Tsukiko, exclusive for Kagami Event (NEW)
Izzie's "Body & Face Beach Sand" appliers
Catwa head - Jessica
Maitreya Lara body and Bento hands
Lara Hurley skin - Beth
The pose is from Luanes World poses - " Predict the Future " - exclusive for Indie Teepee 2017 opening july 21st (NEW)
“If the oak is before the ash,
Then we’ll only get a splash,
“If the ash is before the oak,
Then we’re sure to get a soak”.
This West Country, (UK), rhyme, indicates that the tree that gets it’s leaves first, predicts either a dry or wet summer.
The ash trees in this photo were just beginning to come into leaf on 22nd of April, while the oak tree in the background already had a good covering of leaves. The oaks are usually one of the last trees to get their new leaves, this year they were very early. It remains to be seen how accurate the rhyme proves to be in predicting the summer weather!
Better grab your balloons and invite your friends
Seatbelts back on, yeah, strap 'em in
Look at me, everybody, I'm smilin' big
On a road right now that I can't predict
Tell me, "Tone that down, " but I can't resist
Y'all know that sound, better raise your fist
The search begins, I'm back, so enjoy the trip, huh
~Nate Feuerstein~
I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other :-)
Ulysses S. Grant, 1875
HSS!! Truth Matters! Science Matters!
japanese flowering quince, 'Atsuya Hamada', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Predicting a 'hung' result for the Calder Valley?
For the record, an unidentified Northern class 158 working the late-running 10.53am Wigan North Western - Leeds (2I11).
Bit of a laff, probably won't leave it up........
......or maybe I will.
12.22pm, 18th October 2022
At the same time the early astronomers in Greece, China, and Arabia were charting the heavens and giving names to stars and constellations, the people we now know as the Blackfeet were coming to know the skies. So old is Blackfeet astronomy that the sun, moon, and stars have a place in the memory and sacred ceremonies of the Blackfeet people who can predict when various sky beings will appear.
The only sure way to safely predict what will happen in the future is to travel through time the slow way and observe what happens.
The phrase ‘only time will tell’ means we won’t know what will happen until it does. A case of stating the obvious.
Chris Pash
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the predicted solar storm arrived on Friday night, it came with clouds over many areas luckily it cleared to see Strong Thermal Emission with Velocity Enhancement or STEVE and a picket fence
— My watch can predict the future!
— That's impossible! Can you prove it?
— Sure! — glances at the watch — Right now it's saying you have no panties.
— You see? That is wrong, I have panties on right now.
— Oh, I'm sorry, its 10 minutes fast...
he predicted yesterday didn't happen today :-) Laurence J. Peter.
pink flowering japanese apricot, 'bonita', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Packard was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last in 1958, with one of the last concept cars built in 1956, the Packard Predictor.
We're predicted storms today so I'll pop down to the coast to try and pick up some of the wild energy of the sea and wind. This is from a couple of weeks ago when a. hard frost gripped the valley. Oh Weather is by Damien Jurado
52 Weeks of 2022. Environment.
Dragonflies are an ancient family of insects. They have been around for 300 million years and predate the dinosaurs. There are over 5,000 species spanning all continents except the Antartica. They are important bio-indicators for environmental health both of water and land.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
The temperture was 42+ Celsius in Phalaborwa today and worse is predicted for later in December.. Poor wild animals!
Well, here's another result of my precision calculating and estimating when it comes to YN2 EMD's ;-)
It seems like every time I'm alerted about a YN2 EMD coming to Jacksonville, I correctly predict what train it will be on. After finding out 2756 was here, I shot for Y108 from the Ramp to Bowden, because it was in Duval yard the previous day, and there you have it!
As predicted by this years "Finch Forecast" there's been a relatively healthy influx of Evening Grosbeaks into Northeast Ohio. I say "relatively" because the population of these beautiful birds has been declining in recent years thought to be a result of the destruction of large areas of their boreal breeding grounds. Let's hope this can be addressed to help keep the numbers from decreasing. A huge thanks to one of Cuyahoga County's most talented birders who discovered this lovely finch.
with a predicted 18 to 24 inches of snow hitting this week in North Dakota, it's nice to see some positive signs of spring...these flowers will get buried, but will survive, with the extra moisture, hopefully they will really take off and bloom more.
This is a subject that I did not want to get close to. The Caterpillars are called Cinnabar, they like the Ragwort which is poisonous to horses and many other creatures but not to the Cinnabar Caterpillar but they in turn become toxic which is their defence against predictors.
2019-10-22 2582-CR2-L1T1
Sunday storm prediction for the lakeshore,
WHERE...Mason, Oceana, Muskegon, Ottawa, Allegan and Van Buren counties.
WHEN...From 1 AM Sunday to 1 AM EST Monday.
IMPACTS...Significant erosion of beaches and dunes, inundation of low-lying areas along the lakeshore and in river mouths, and road closures are possible.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A strong fall storm system will move through the Great Lakes tonight and Sunday. Winds will increase substantially out of the west on Sunday bringing a rise in water levels as well as producing large battering waves. Wave heights will likely reach the 12 to 16 foot range on Sunday. Peak wind gusts will top out in the 50 to 60 mph range.
This shot of the Grand Haven lighthouse was taken October 22 of 2019. I do not think the light will be this good on Sunday as they are also predicting rain al day long. So probably not much sun light at all.
If this looks promising I might head out that way, we will see.
After a day full of heavy raining, the meteorologist predicted some clear spells for the evening. So I made myself on the way to this place at lake Zurich. Weather was still not very promising, but at the time of sunset, the sun produced some nice colors on the sky...
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As predicted a CME (coronal mass ejection) sparked a strong G3 class geomagnetic storm yesterday. Thankfully it cleared after midnight and I was able to witness some very colourful displays, even seeing red rather than just what the camera picked up. The storm is ongoing with another possible impact to come. From Space Weather:
"The lights spread across multiple US states including Oregon, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Idaho, Montana, New Jersey and North Dakota. At maximum, the lights descended as far south as Colorado."