DailyDirt: More Clouds & Rainbows
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Unusual cloud formations and strangely diffracted sunlight are fascinating phenomena, and more amateur photographers are capturing these ephemeral meteorological events all the time now. So instead of chasing chemtrail conspiracy theories, we can document weird-looking patterns in the sky and try to figure out how/why they happen. Here are just a few examples of some crowdsourced meteorology.
- The International Cloud Atlas is considering including pictures of wavy clouds, called undulatus asperatus and documented by the Cloud Appreciation Society (CAS). These wavy clouds could be the first new type of cloud added to the official cloud record since 1951. [url]
- Here’s a gallery of a variety of rainbows and some other cool-looking artifacts of the sky (eg. fogbows and sundogs). If cute pictures can increase worker productivity, maybe rainbows can, too. [url]
- Pretty clouds make for great pictures, but they might also precede some pretty bad weather. Actinoform clouds can only be seen properly from space, as they spread over a hundred miles across the sky. [url]
If you’d like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post.
Filed Under: clouds, international cloud atlas, meteorology, rainbows, weather
Comments on “DailyDirt: More Clouds & Rainbows”
cloud classifications..
wow, some of those cloud formations are pretty cool. how many other planets have clouds?
Re: cloud classifications..
Many. Although the clouds on other planets may be based upon chemicals other than water, methane for example.
I guess you could say it was cloudsourced
The most interesting cloud formation I ever saw was one that had an almost perfectly horizontal line above the horizon as far as I could see (limited visibility in the suburbs). It looked like a giant tidal wave was headed this way.
I snapped some photos of it, but they don’t really capture the impression you got from seeing it in person.
hexagonal
I just feel the urge to add the amazing hexagonal cloud system over Saturn north pole
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2007-034
Re: hexagonal
Thank you, dear sir. You are doing it right!
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