Archive for October, 2008
I’ve decided to be a storm chaser. Not anytime soon, but one day.
It’s parents weekend here in Boulder and the pressure was on for the Buffs as they battled Kansas State this evening. Great game, great sky.
Buffs win 14-13.
Lenticular clouds are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally aligned at right-angles to the wind direction. Where stable moist air flows over a mountain or a range of mountains, a series of large-scale standing waves may form on the downwind side. Lenticular clouds sometimes form at the crests of these waves. Under certain conditions, long strings of lenticular clouds can form near the crest of each successive wave, creating a formation known as a ‘wave cloud’. I found these images on Google. TOO cool!
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The pictures below show real snow crystals that fell to earth in Northern Ontario, Alaska, Vermont, the Michigan Upper Peninsula, and the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. They were captured by Kenneth G. Libbrecht using a specially designed snowflake photomicroscope.
To learn about the many different types of snow crystals, go here.
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