Posted on 11/30/2010 5:27:59 PM PST by thecodont
A cloud that looked like a spaceship settled on Mount Shasta in the north state Wednesday morning, and then in the next hour spread out with a trailing edge to the south that looked like an exhaust plume.
At Lake Tahoe in the central Sierra, after a crystal, cold morning with azure skies, wispy thin clouds, almost unnoticeable at some 30,000 feet, were cast like streamers.
In both cases, the clouds predicted the weather to come. Nature has many crystal balls. If you want to know local weather on your adventures, look to the clouds. There are other signs as well, like when all the cows are facing one direction or if your lawn is dry at dawn with no morning dew.
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Calling all City Slickers...
Love to see lenticular clouds. Here’s a Google that could waste a few hours of your time. :)
http://www.google.com/images?q=stacked+lenticular+clouds
BTTT.
Louis Rubin was a local character in my husband's home town. Strictly an amateur meteorologist, but a good one.
Norm is a CS?
The jury is still out but only a City Slicker would hold the record for the most articles posted on FReeRepublic at 49, 687..
Cartion: Objects may be larger than they appear due to vapour effects.
It’s 20,965 btw.. 25,000 by 2020 or until the FR hamsters get retired..
Mother nature is full of neat vapour effects.
Not Norm! Say it ain't so!
Also related to a Carpet Bagger claiming Min ah Soo taa as his birth place
There is one more to add.
If it’s gone... it’s windy
That wasn’t a cloud, it was a ballistic missile launched from a North Korean submarine
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