hobby #198

Cloud Spotting

Amateur nephology — identifying and logging cloud types (the ten genera, their species and varieties) by eye, reading the sky for weather and atmospheric structure without instruments. Chasing lenticulars over the Rockies, chinook arches, mammatus, and fleeting optical effects like sun dogs and iridescence.

Jul 19 6:04 PM #198 3 min

The Sky Was Reporting in Eighths the Whole Time

Cloud Spotting

Twenty years reading cloud codes off flight briefings, and a lens-shaped cloud over the foothills stopped me cold. Turns out I could name the weather but not the sky it came from.

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