Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101007/10191111325/dailydirt-more-clouds-rainbows.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101007/10191111325/dailydirt-more-clouds-rainbows.shtml 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]

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]]> urls-we-dig-up http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20101007/10191111325 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091111/1334536901/dailydirt-crazy-weather-were-having.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091111/1334536901/dailydirt-crazy-weather-were-having.shtml film SSDs.

• San Francisco enjoyed a nice double rainbow last week. Is that a total of four pots of gold? [url]
• Iridescent clouds are sometimes called fire rainbows, and they're beautifully-colored clouds caused by the diffraction of light through water droplets of uniform size. Neither fire, nor rainbow. Discuss. [url]
• A picture of a storm brewing in Brunei has been spreading all over the internet. If only there was a way to combine cute kittens and big scary clouds.... [url]
• A "roll cloud" in Brazil looks pretty scary as it tumbles across the sky, but it's actually pretty harmless. Lots of strange cloud formations are caused by weird wind patterns that stir up warm, moist air with cooler air pockets. [url]

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