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Subject: [Leica] Eydon Northamptonshire #7
From: cmbrow at wm.edu (Chandos Michael Brown)
Date: Tue Dec 21 07:01:14 2004

I believe that these are called "lenticular clouds."

A brief description here, but Google yields a ton of information.

http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/webweather/cloudpic2.html

Cheers!
Chandos



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Will von
Dauster
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:49 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Eydon Northamptonshire #7

Hi All,

I showed this great cloud image to one of the better meteorologists 
here at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (where I 
also work). He said it appears to be an example of crytalisation, where 
a small section of the surrounding water vapor clouds has crystalised 
into ice. This happens this time of year, and can be triggered by such 
things as an airplane flying through the cloud layer.

Hope this helps,

Will von Dauster
Boulder, Colorado


On 12/20/04 8:01 PM, "William G. Lamb, III" 
<lambroving@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

 >
 > Graham,
 >
 > You are the last person I would ever accuse of
 > Photoshop!
 >
 > Lee,
 >
 > That's not a flying saucer. It must be a flying crop
 > circle, even though it's not Wiltshire! :-)
 >
 > William
 >
 >>> The sky really was like this:
 >>>
 >>> http://www.geebeephoto.com/temp/Leica/Eydon_07.htm
 >>>
 >>> Graham
 >>> http://geebeephoto.com


Will von Dauster
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