Strange Clouds Bob Zip 182
Lloyd Villasenor
The song's official music video premiered on B.o.B's YouTube channel in December 2011. The video features both rappers performing the song in a grassy forested area, as various people look in trepidation at the sight of massive "strange clouds" forming in the sky. Grand Hustle Records label boss T.I. makes a cameo appearance, along with rapper 2 Chainz.[6]
my clouds have always done that. You can decrease its noticeability by increasing render Scaling but Ive never been able to get rid of it.
Its mostly noticeable when turning or turning your viewpoint, correct?
Your clouds are one of the varieties of clouds. They are called "Striped, layered cumulus clouds."
Notable for the fact that they are located in the sky in the form of regular rows or waves, separated by gaps.
Most often, portend good weather.
Shelf clouds, which are probably what many of us saw this week in Georgia, are also usually associated with rising cloud motion along the leading edge and rather turbulent looking skies beneath it. The thunderstorm outflow is the result of evaporation of raindrops behind the leading edge. The more dense, evaporatively cooled air moves forward as a density current. I often describe it to my family as imagine pouring pancake syrup into a less dense fluid like water. The dense current can lift moist air producing the shelf cloud appearance. Outflow boundaries can also lift the air and initiate new storms. I spent a good portion of my doctoral dissertation at Florida State University thinking about them.
I've never seen clouds like this in-game before. I am flying over the Atlantic from KMIA to KJFK, I have no addons installed for weather, and I am using real weather download. Anyone seen these, or know to fix it?
Some strange clouds that caught my attention. I only took a few shots, so now I'm wondering how they would've looked if I shot a timelapse. Normally I would, but I guess I had other plans at the time.
When I was on vacation last year in Central Oregon, I had a farmer tell me that he never cuts hay if clouds are appearing above Mount Hood. He was talking about the same type of strange looking clouds that appeared over our mountains on Thursday evening February 3rd, 2011.
For example, researchers from colleges like the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and the University of Leicester believe they have finally cracked a mystery that has bedeviled astronomers since 2019: The enigma of Neptune's vanishing clouds.
"Even now, four years later, the most recent images we took this past June still show the clouds haven't returned to their former levels," Erandi Chavez, the study's first author and a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a NASA statement. "This is extremely exciting and unexpected, especially since Neptune's previous period of low cloud activity was not nearly as dramatic and prolonged."
"These remarkable data give us the strongest evidence yet that Neptune's cloud cover correlates with the Sun's cycle," Imke de Pater, emeritus professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study, said in an additional NASA statement. "Our findings support the theory that the Sun's UV rays, when strong enough, may be triggering a photochemical reaction that produces Neptune's clouds."
An artistic depiction of the planet WASP-107b. Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest this hot gas giant has clouds made of sand. Klaas Verpoest, Johan Van Looveren, Leen Decin hide caption
The sand likely acts as water does on Earth, falling like rain towards the planet's hotter interior and then evaporating back up to form clouds once more, according to a new report published online by the journal Nature.
Even though astronomers theoretically knew that clouds could form out of substances like rock or metal or salt, "now here we can actually look at it," says Laura Kreidberg, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany who studies atmospheres of distant planets but was not part of this research team.
"This happens a lot. Many of the planets that we have observed have really strong evidence for some kind of clouds or haze," says Kreidberg. "But up until now, it's been very difficult to determine exactly what type of cloud we're looking at."
With the powerful JWST, which peers at the universe in search of infrared light, scientists have a brand-new tool to help do that. Kreidberg explains that the tell-tale features from clouds are mainly in the infrared, which the Hubble Space Telescope couldn't see. JWST can see those features, plus it can also make much more precise measurements than Hubble, as it has a bigger light-collecting mirror.
In the past, researchers have taken what they know about chemical elements and made predictions about what kinds of peculiar clouds might exist on distant planets. But these were just educated guesses.
This could be just the beginning of a bevy of otherworldly cloud discoveries. Astronomers pondering one far-off planet, for example, suggested that it might have clouds made of liquid metal and rain made of rubies and sapphires.
I don't wanna come down, I'm floating on strange clouds
Burning up with the sun, we let it all fade out
Falling out of the sky, I'm laying with you and staring at the ceiling
I don't wanna come down, I'm floating on strange clouds
When flying in a cloudy sky I get strange vertical and horizontal lines as per attached screen shot. There are no weird graphics effects in a clear sky so I am assuming it is the clouds that are generating the phenomenon.
I forgot to mention that I am running X-plane 11 on a second monitor ( Dell 32"). I moved the X-Plane window back onto the iMac screen and the clouds reverted back to normal so it looks like it's an issue with running X-plane on a second monitor.
Thanks dblue_one for the pointer, after reading through the linked thread I edited the value in the appropriate line in Vivid.lua and that has solved the problem. I think changing monitors was just a curve ball at that moment the clouds were being refreshed. I'm running on a Mac with MacOs Mojave and I don't think you have to load graphics drivers like you do in Windows anyway.
While traveling east through South Dakota in the summer of 1990, I stopped to snap a picture of this strange looking cloud. The flatness of the landscape and the emptiness of the sky gave it an eerie prominence.
Anyone who's ever seen a noctilucent cloud or NLC would agree: They look alien. The electric-blue ripples and pale tendrils of NLCs reaching across the night sky resemble something from another world. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2'); ); Researchers say that's not far off. A key ingredient for the mysterious clouds comes from outer space."We've detected bits of 'meteor smoke' imbedded in noctilucent clouds," reports James Russell of Hampton University, principal investigator of NASA's AIM mission to study the phenomenon. "This discovery supports the theory that meteor dust is the nucleating agent around which NLCs form."Noctilucent clouds are a mystery dating back to the late 19th century. Northern sky watchers first noticed them in 1885 about two years after the eruption of Krakatoa. Ash from the Indonesian volcano caused such splendid sunsets that evening sky watching became a worldwide past time. One observer in particular, a German named T.W. Backhouse who is often credited with the discovery of NLCs, noticed something odd. He stayed outside longer than most people, long enough for the twilight to fully darken, and on some nights he saw wispy filaments glowing electric blue against the black sky. Scientists of the day figured they were some manifestation of volcanic dust.Eventually Krakatoas ash settled and the sunsets faded, but strangely the noctilucent clouds didnt go away. Theyre still present today, stronger than ever. Researchers arent sure what role Krakatoas ash played in those early sightings. One thing is clear, however: The dust behind the clouds we see now is space dust.Mark Hervig of the company GATS, Inc, led the team that found the extraterrestrial connection."Using AIM's Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment (SOFIE), we found that about 3% of each ice crystal in a noctilucent cloud is meteoritic," says Hervig.The inner solar system is littered with meteoroids of all shapes and sizes--from asteroid-sized chunks of rock to microscopic specks of dust. Every day Earth scoops up tons of the material, mostly the small stuff. When meteoroids hit our atmosphere and burn up, they leave behind a haze of tiny particles suspended 70 km to 100 km above Earth's surface. Comparison of noctilucent cloud coverage in 1880 versus 1990. They have increased over time. Credit: NASA It's no coincidence that NLCs form 83 km high, squarely inside the meteor smoke zone.Specks of meteor smoke act as gathering points where water molecules can assemble themselves into ice crystals. The process is called "nucleation." (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle []).push(); Nucleation happens all the time in the lower atmosphere. In ordinary clouds, airborne specks of dust and even living microbes can serve as nucleation sites. Tiny ice crystals, drops of water, and snowflakes grow around these particles, falling to Earth if and when they become heavy enough. A graphic prepared by Prof. James Russell of Hampton University shows how methane, a greenhouse gas, boosts the abundance of water at the top of Earth's atmosphere. This water freezes around "meteor smoke" to form icy noctilucent clouds. Nucleating agents are especially important in the ethereal realm of NLCs. The clouds form at the edge of space where the air pressure is little more than vacuum. The odds of two water molecules meeting is slim, and of sticking together slimmer still.Meteor smoke helps beat the odds. According AIM data, ice crystals can grow around meteoritic dust to sizes ranging from 20 to 70 nanometers. For comparison, cirrus clouds in the lower atmosphere where water is abundant contain crystals 10 to 100 times larger.The small size of the ice crystals explains the clouds' blue color. Small particles tend to scatter short wavelengths of light (blue) more strongly than long wavelengths (red). So when a beam of sunlight hits an NLC, blue is the color that gets scattered down to Earth.Meteor smoke explains much about NLCs, but a key mystery remains: Why are the clouds brightening and spreading?In the 19th century, NLCs were confined to high latitudesplaces like Canada and Scandinavia. In recent times, however, they have been spotted as far south as Colorado, Utah and Nebraska. The reason, Russell believes, is climate change. One of the greenhouse gases that has become more abundant in Earth's atmosphere since the 19th century is methane. It comes from landfills, natural gas and petroleum systems, agricultural activities, and coal mining.It turns out that methane boosts NLCs.Russell explains: "When methane makes its way into the upper atmosphere, it is oxidized by a complex series of reactions to form water vapor. This extra water vapor is then available to grow ice crystals for NLCs."If this idea is correct, noctilucent clouds are a sort of "canary in a coal mine" for one of the most important greenhouse gases.And that, says Russell, is a great reason to study them. "Noctilucent clouds might look alien, but they're telling us something very important about our own planet." Provided byNASA
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