Posts Tagged cloud
- A Winter Storm - July 10th, 2011 , Written By: Peter Kreft | 2 Comments
- Weird Taranaki Cloud - November 30th, 2010 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | No Comments
- Breaking waves in the sky - August 23rd, 2010 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | No Comments
- A row of teeth - August 10th, 2010 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | No Comments
- Layers and streets of cloud - July 5th, 2010 , Written By: Chris Noble | 1 Comment
- Predictability and popcorn - June 30th, 2010 , Written By: Chris Webster | No Comments
Since Wednesday 6 July, stormy westerly conditions have affected New Zealand. In this blog, we’ll look at why. The “Long Waves” Below is the mean sea level analysis – the weather map – for 6am Sunday 10 July. In between big highs over the mid South Pacific and south of western Australia is a really [...]
Addendum added at end of this post on 20 Dec 2010 Lesley of New Plymouth recently sent in some cloud images taken by cellphone at New Plymouth. They were taken at around 7:50am on Thursday 18 November 2010 and look a bit like someone or something had been slicing the clouds. The first, below, was [...]
These clouds show waves rolling along and breaking in the sky, similar to the way that waves behave on the sea.
It looked like a row of teeth
Clouds come in many different types and are characterised and named according to both their shape and height in the atmosphere. While a single snapshot in time at a given location may only contain one type of cloud, there are many days when multiple cloud types can be observed in the sky at once. On [...]
Among the most spectacular of meteorological phenomena are those associated with convection, particularly thunderstorms. Convection is all about the vertical motions that I mentioned in an earlier blog post, but confined to pockets or cells of strong up and down motion. These motions transfer heat through layers of the atmosphere on a local scale; this is [...]