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Nice poetry And cloudscape!

I am glad to hear that.

Nice shot of great clouds.

Thank you, Daxer.

Oh, my dear! You have touched the heart of a cloud man! Really excellent shot!

And the poem? LOL ... how often have I thought that nature has no disasters!

This, and really all your poems that I have seen here, have this ironic edge that I have found so common in Chinese literature (what I have seen of it ... I do not read Chinese). I really like them.

Very interesting.

Excellent Cloudscape! and Lovely poetry too!

Hi

What if we look at this "alteration" from dead people's point of view or those who have lost their dears in such circumstances?

That "if" has been considered and answered.

Yep.

In the poem itself.

Glad you like my poems or verses, dW. Your long comment makes me very happy.

Also, thanks to everyone who have commented.

Chuckle! Long comment? You don't want me to REALLY get started!

Vapid?

Look closely at the vapid face before it changes to depression.
Cloudscape.
No energy so lists as blows the ocean mists and deepens.
Storm.
And yet its energies enervate, is this how we tolerate?
Disaster.

Vapid?
Really?

Who said "vapid"?

Me. Can't you read?

One of those fluffy white clouds that look so prety in an April sky weighs about 100 or so tons. That's two laden artics and a builder's wagon. And it's moving at the same speed no matter how indolent it may seem.

A sky full of cloud stretching from horizon to horizon is built up of many such clouds, all hanging relatively low above our heads.

All of it designed by god to be vapid.

OK ... so you're changing the focus of the thread ... Yes, I agree that clouds are really massive objects; even the Ci overcast in this pic is composed of a great deal of ice. The Cu, however, along with the Ci, although they mass a great deal, seem to stay aloft fairly well, although the last few mornings around here would tend to give one a certain amount of doubt about that, LOL.

Hell, it's snowing! Too many molecules of water have bumped into each other, I reckon.

Actually, it looks as though some of the cirrus are lying over a layer of cirrostratus, though without height measurements, I can't say for sure.

What I really groove on, though, is the picture.

Funny how we seemed to rub along OK without anemometers in the good old days.

I can't remember the figures but I recall that an inch of rain weighs something like 500 tons per acre. It would be relatively easy to work out.

1 inch x 1 yard x 4840 yards then find out how many cubic yards or inches there are and how much one of those units full of water would weigh.

Or look the subject up as a done deal. You'd be vapourised if one of those clouds fell on you.

Water weighs less than air, in air. It is bodily lifted from seas and basins at any temperature from less than minus 2 degrees Centigrade to somewhere in the mid 30's for tropical reservoirs.

It isn't evapourated at all. But the dynamic is such that the temperature bill is paid in carriage fees. I suppose lifting the water works somehow to dissipate windstrengths somewhat.

It is a tremendous amount of energy, whatever. And all those little clouds -because of the spaces in between them, cause an April day to be really bright, reflecting and refracting more light back down than we'd ordinarily receive on a cloudless day.

And that is why it is always brightest after a storm. Storms as I said, lift the water not drop it, as it would appear.

Another thing that may not have occurred to you is that a few feet of tornado cross section will not only stop sunlight dead but you would never guess that inside they are lit up like Christmas.

And yet oceans can absorb light all the way down to 2 or 3 hundred feet. Vapid?

Hardly.

Weather-man,

Why must you torture us mere mortals? What pleasure do you gain?

The beauty and soul of poetry is emotion expressed and shared.

Torture?

I am in love with the physics of the earth, Wezall and the god who made it all. That's something I want others to enjoy and share.

I noticed you too derWandersmann have an interest in it as I was looking at the photos of striations you posted on your site. (Mackerel skies et al.)

Have you thought of trying a polarised lense to highlight the lines? There is a fundamental law in nature called chirality which caused polarisation in organic life and I dare say in the physics of the sea and sky too.

Just try to get a filter that will fit this thing!

Yep, I used to work for Fujita ... the "F" in the tornado strength numbers. But I was sensitised long before that.