New Cloud Formations?
June 7th, 2009I don’t think these clouds are new, though. Look at the sky above Mordor. 😉
Via: BBC:
A cloudspotter from Somerset believes he has identified a new type of cloud.
Gavin Pretor-Pinney, from Somerton, who also founded the Cloud Appreciation Society, wants recognition for what he has named the asperatus cloud.
He said: “It looks quite violent – as if you are looking up from underneath the turbulent surface of the sea.”
Weather forecaster Michael Fish told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he thinks it is caused by a mixing of two air masses or the bottom of a storm cloud.
Pictures ‘amazing’
Mr Pretor-Pinney, who wrote the Cloudspotter’s Guide which featured in the Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list, asked his cousin – who is a Latin teacher – for a word that means choppy or turbulent that is used to describe the sea to name the cloud after.
“Asperatus comes from the Latin verb aspero meaning ‘to roughen up’ or ‘agitate’,” he said.
“It was used by the poet Virgil to describe the surface of a choppy sea.”
Mr Fish said he was “quite amazed” by pictures showing clouds fitting Mr Pretor-Pinney’s asperatus description.
He said: “I can offer two explanations – they are either the mixing of two air masses – very warm humid air and and very cold dry air and it is like oil and water – it doesn’t mix.
“These clouds could be formed at the boundary of these two air masses.
“Or, I have just spent several weeks chasing tornado-type storms in the Mid West they could be the turbulent underbelly of one of the huge thunder clouds.
“The only way to find out for sure is to look at the meteorological observations in the area at the time,” Mr Fish added.
Mr Pretor-Pinney said the pictures were sent in by cloud society members from all over the world and some of them said there was no storm activity or heavy precipitation in the area at the time.
Expert committee
He said: “We need to look into this some more and I am speaking with the Royal Meteorological Society to do that.
“There has been no change to the classifications of clouds since 1953 and maybe this should be considered now.”
Clouds are classified by a committee of experts from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) based in Switzerland.
For them to consider Mr Pretor-Pinney’s suggestion the WMO would have to be lobbied by a professional body such as the Royal Meteorological Society or the Meteorological Office.
Any decision on whether it is a new classification, or regarded as a sub-classification, is likely to be a two to three-year process.
The conditioning program continues apace.
These non-intuitive, non-liquid forms are “new” clouds, easily explained away by an expert in specialized terms outside the range of most people’s standard grok range. They’re most definitely not the skidmarks of semi-arcane atmospheric heating and steering processes.
Mordor indeed… =)
Have to wonder what Scott “Weather Wars” Stevens would have to say about the BBC images. His own images and analysis of the “punchhole” effects also seen here, a specific phenomenon observed under varying conditions, came across pretty lucid to this amateur weather observer.
Observing the planes at work in the skies above upper Lotharingia is a regular hobby of ours here working away outside. The heaviest tracks always precede the arrival of moisture-bearing fronts.
With an abundance of air traffic above the region already, the “unmarked fleet” is literally hiding in plain sight. No joke. I’ve had a gander with long binoculars and scopes. Leaving a broad swath like a giant albino crop duster, while commercial jets within a couple thousand feet on a parallel track leave no contrail at all.
Then there are the on-off-on dashed forms, the fans and grids, the occasional cross and triangle and spiral forms. One of the best was watching three large jets laying down a group of vertically stacked circles sitting in Trier one sunny summer afternoon. Even the normal volk all around us were looking twice and pointing that day.
For what it’s worth, I’ve spent some time up and close and personal with the military aviation community. There’s no question in my mind that the program has been active for years, based on my own observations along the west coast of the USSA throughout the 1990’s and cearly underway here since crossing the Pond for good in 2002.
I have no firm conclusions about exactly what is being done and why. Nonetheless, the abundance of both concrete and circumstancial evidence is clear and direct. I’ve seen the studies and know the difference between what was once and now is from direct experience.
As for intent, how good and beneficent can it be if even a polite attempt at scientifically-inclined discussion of such potential activity has been deemed “inadmissable” by the official keepers of scientific validity.
Not to mention the active denial mechanisms used by the media and the not-so-veiled insinuations levelled by officialdom against those who would differentiate between the naturally-occuring thermal phenomena known as a contrail and the crop-dusting sky circus effect that has come to be known as a chemtrail.
The solution to skies like these are Orgonite cloudbusters. Since Georg from Orgonise Africa started putting them around Johannesburg we have seen almost no chem trails for years.