28 Replies to “Morning Glory Cloud”

  8. OK, I actually got off my rear end and looked things up – if I understand correctly, morning glory clouds are subtypes of cloud streets, seen in Northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. Morning glory clouds apparently are especially attractive to glider pilots – don’t know my planes, but that pic looks like a glider strut to me. But what do I know??
    (The link I get doesn’t concord with the cloud pics.)

  9. Warren Z – in Calgary and esp Canmore we get a lot of lenticular clouds – very cool as you say – sculpted by the wind. We get lots of mammatus clouds too, like many communities (probably my favourite, never mind the etymology!), and the occasional noctilucent cloud. A few years back I remember seeing (and photographing) many iridescent clouds – but I haven’t seen too many lately.
    This is my favourite cloud photo of all time
    http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/images1/pil6b.jpg

  13. LEDA – I think you would have really enjoyed a visual presentation I did in 2004? at the University I was attending. It featured 70? or so the most amazing pictures from the hubble spacecraft and others from the NASA site. I timed them using ppt and I used music scores from the Allan Parson’s project, twighlight zone theme song, Requium for a Dream – Clint Mansell and a few other scores I don’t recall just now. I received requests for copies off the ppt which I readily gave – I pull it up every once in a while and watch it – each time I am awed at the glory of the Universe.

  14. Interesting picture….
    I discounted contrails instantly….the wing configuration doesn’t fit for an aircraft to attain the altitude necessary to surmount a contrail…..
    The surface detail indicates a temperate climate…eliminating the freaky winter contrails…On morning a dawn in January my sky was just full of contrails….due to the cold they persisted and formed at lower altitudes.
    This phenomina is new to me but the surface detail suggests an onshore condensation thingy.
    With all our worldly concerns it is good to stop and admire nature at work…..
    Get Al Gore to explain this…..

  15. Look like ‘roll clouds’ to me; usually a precursor to a cold front moving through in winter.
    Whatever they are, they’re way awse.
    Garth

  16. Nice shot of the early morning geo-engineering. No folks, con trails don’t last all day and diffuse into an over cast sky.
    Google “geo-engineering” or “cool roof” and read the fed documentation.

  17. interesting info on the formation folks…myself I think it’s the capture of a Marion Barry dream

  19. Erik – I would say a Cessna 172
    Posted by: ron in kelowna at August
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    LOL, now that’s on heck of a 172.

  20. “Lefties will say it’s chemtrails…”
    At the risk of defending lefties, the chemtrail conspiracy demographic tends to be wingnuts on the right end of the political spectrum rather than moonbats.

  21. We see some similar cloud formations here at the south end of Lakes Manitoba and Winnipeg. A cool northwest wind over a warmer lake (late sunmmer, early fall) can result in a cloud forming over the wind shadow of the lake, as the air recools over land. This leaves a narrow band of cloud in an otherwise clear sky.

  23. “At the risk of defending lefties, the chemtrail conspiracy demographic tends to be wingnuts on the right end of the political spectrum rather than moonbats.”
    Nah, he paranoid anti-government types tend to fall in the libertarian middle. From a socially fascist point of view they look like moonbats. From an Obammunist point of view they look like wing nuts. Hey, you’re both right!

  26. “Nah, he paranoid anti-government types tend to fall in the libertarian middle. From a socially fascist point of view they look like moonbats. From an Obammunist point of view they look like wing nuts. Hey, you’re both right!”
    You know, you make a good point. Sometimes there really is little to discriminate between wingnuttery and moonbattery.

  27. ron in kelowna I agree that looks like the underside of a droop tipped Cessna. Wouldn’t bet the farm on the model although I suspect it might be a 182 due to the altitude. I always thought that the 172 took too long to get that high. I think the worst plane I ever flew was a PA22 Piper Tripacer. The bungee interconnect between the rudder and ailerons took all the fun out of the fun stuff and the glide slope of a rock best described its power off characteristics. Oh yeah don’t get me going on ‘the more art than science’ trying to trim the infernal machine. In fact the only good thing I can think of is if you had a boring passenger it didn’t matter because you couldn’t hear him over the noise of the engine.

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