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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 18, 2009 - 02:22pm PT
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By the time I reached North Conway, the winds had died down and a neat stack of lenticulars had
relaxed into this tophat.
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TB
climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Apr 18, 2009 - 02:23pm PT
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You guys have some pretty cool clouds
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Fletcher
Trad climber
the end of the world as we know it, & I feel fine.
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Apr 20, 2009 - 02:27am PT
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This thread has some legs! Thanks for that... great stuff here everyone.
Eric
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Apr 20, 2009 - 09:03am PT
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Clicked on this hoping someone had captured those lenticulars on Friday afternoon,voila,Chiloe has them ! I suspect Perswig has some more too.Best batch I've seen.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Apr 20, 2009 - 10:43am PT
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Somebody a few posts back asked about lenticular particulars. The simplest explanation is they are just the crest of a wave which is cooler and condenses the moisture present in the air mass. If you've been on an airliner as it takes off you will often see it demonstrated. Otherwise clear air passes over the wing/mountain and accelerates thereby cooling the air so it condenses if only for a second in the airplane case.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Apr 20, 2009 - 06:56pm PT
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I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky:
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
For after the rain, when with never a stain
the pavilion of heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
Build up the blue dome of air,
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise, and unbuild it again.
Percy Bysshe Shelly, :The Cloud'
early fall San Rafael Swell bound.
Tafahi Island, Northern Tonga and strong NE tradewinds.
Transition weather, Urupukapuka Isl, New Zealand
Pyrocumulous build up, Wind Rivers
Pyrocumulous
Tuamotus, French Polynesia
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perswig
climber
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Apr 20, 2009 - 08:41pm PT
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MH2
climber
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Apr 22, 2009 - 01:08am PT
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Best wishes to t*r.
From the broad but not so deep internet:
“This lens-shaped formation is the result of strong wind blown over mountains which causes standing waves and vapor condenses by being below due point at the crest of the waves. When cloud forms, it interrupts the next wind and causes vertical oscillations, hence layers are composed.”
So it sounds almost like the formation of the first (bottom) layer of a lenticuar cloud in turn causes air to go up and over it, creating a second story, and so on. However, other explanations refer to air already stratified in moisture content, but that only pushes the question back to how the air became so divided into layers. A U of W geophysics student once told me that people compared how many layers they had seen over Rainier, and you shouldn’t even open your mouth if you hadn’t seen more than 14.
"MAKA FUSHIGI" is a Japanese term often used to describe mysterious occurrences. It comes from a Sanskrit term "MAHA" meaning highness and "MAKA FUSHIGI" was originally used to express impressive phenomena in the nature that are beyond human understandings.
http://mechafushigi.com/?p=109
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Apr 22, 2009 - 02:05am PT
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Reilly
That is one spectacular photo!
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perswig
climber
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Apr 26, 2009 - 06:35pm PT
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Vibrating to dust.
Pierced.
Ginsu handiwork.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Apr 29, 2009 - 01:57pm PT
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These are not exceptional as most photos in this thread are, but I’m posting them just to show what one can shoot from the street in front of my house. Back in the 90s when I lived on Climber’s Row in Bishop, we used to have “Sunset Alerts”. Bard would come running out of his place yelling, “Sunset alert, sunset alert.” We’d all rush outside and into the street to gawk.
I have since moved off of Climbers Row into a more respectable home (a stone’s throw from The Row). The street in front of my new place has a view with fewer obstructions as evidenced below. In my 28 years of Bishop sunsets, I've managed to grab my camera maybe three times.
This one below was taken from Horton Lakes with Bishop in the gloom below.
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perswig
climber
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Apr 29, 2009 - 07:03pm PT
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Nothing pedestrian about those shots, Don. Esp like the last - "sedimentary".
I'm finding myself looking up alot more these days, thanks to this thread.
Dale
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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On the way to my Redneck Cesspool Bivy, a week or so ago…
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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nice bl.
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perswig
climber
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Wow, very nice, Minerals.
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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A few more from my point-and-shoot…
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