Re: Cloud Connoisseur Collection

Cloud Connoisseur Collection
Article on two new books dealing with unusual cloud formations described

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17178-extraordinary-clouds
Fallstreak holes
Roll cloud
Altocumulus lenticularis
Cap cloud
Wave clouds
Virga
Mammatus at the base of a storm cloud
Kelvin-Helmholtz
Horseshoe vortex

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

You should have said Half Dome in the title.
Cause it'll be a shame that this doesn't get the traffic it deserves!
Friggin Awesome pictures!

The one I can think of off the top of my noggin that I have that I really like is this:

Google has a Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud photo from San Francisco area.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2009 07:38AM by Frank Furter.

Especially for the Cranky Goatie that is lost over on another thread:
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/env/clouds/index.htm

[Courtesy of the MCLU Cascade Chapter]

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szalkowski
Especially for the Cranky Goatie that is lost over on another thread:

[Courtesy of the MCLU Cascade Chapter]

I seem to have misplaced a... a.... tree!?!?!?

The MCLU Dana Chapter may lose some members in the coming days...
(rumor has it they really like the pink sheen and are considering flying the coop)

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szalkowski
Especially for the Cranky Goatie that is lost over on another thread:
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/env/clouds/index.htm

[Courtesy of the MCLU Cascade Chapter]

Reminds me of the "Close Encounters" movie.

Jim

I like how the steam rising from the vent just blends in with the clouds.

Apparently it's now glowing from the crater via a lava lake. You can't really see the lava (it's actually about 300 ft below the crater floor, and the NPS isn't letting visitors get anywhere near it), but the glow seems to tunnel through the steam column.

Halemaumau lava lake bubbling up?
http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=10492815

whoa, very cool. that tube cloud is unreal.

Impressive cloud we had during a storm last summer.