Whoa - cool, extremely unusual clouds

[leftyladyfrommo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060801/sc_afp/scienceclimateclouds_060801

This is about the 2nd report I have seen about wierd clouds. One report was about clouds that illuminate or kind of glow at night.

the clouds in this article may mean bad things for our atmosphere - pretty but not so good.

This link is not working - I'll try to find a better one - this was a report on Yahoo yesterday

[ixion]

1. link doesn't work

or has been removed? :shrug: :tinfoilhat:

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. See this over on Raw Story - it is a headline

I think the link I have is just not the whole link - but the story is still out there. I'm not very good with computer techno stuff.

But this photo of this cloud is amazing.

www.rawstory.com

[ixion]

9. thanks!

appreciate the link. that's an amazing picture. :wow:

[sazemisery]

2. Here's your link and an article also

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/sc/080106australiacloud;_ylt=AoH_oP_DQqLXZ5aeV466vSIPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5YmlpOGc1BHNlYwNjYXRzcw--

article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060801/sc_afp/scienceclimateclouds_060801094840;_ylt=AtpNVd1S5z9g9SRXIv8WyIkTO7gF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA--

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Bless You

Some day I may even figure out the link system. If it is a short link I can get it - can't figure out how to read the long links.

[Karmakaze]

7. Im not sure why the admins havent got around to fixing this...

but it is a bug in the orginal DCForum software - there is a
regular expression that finds the urls in a post and makes
them into active links, but the regex is faulty and doesnt
include all the valid characters in a URL. So what happens is
when the regex finds a url that has one of these valid but not
included characters it breaks the link by inserting the
closing tag of the link in the wrong place.

The work around for us is to use the DCForum link code which
is like this:

[link:url|text]  The url though should not have the http:// in
front of it. So for example a url like this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060801/sc_afp/science

inserted as a link would look like this:

[link:news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060801/sc_afp/science|Click here
to read]

When you use this method, the regex is not used to find the
url, so it doesnt get broken in the wrong place.

In the case of the url you posted, the semicolon is not being
recognised as part of the url, so the url is being broken
there, even though a semicolon is a valid character in a url.

[Karmakaze]

10. Here is an example of the url using DCForum link code

Rare clouds seen above Antarctica

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. ow I could actually handle that one, I think.

Everyone gets so put out if I don't put a link out there - but some of the links are just impossible.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. Oh dear.. And I used to be a smart person but not any more.

I still just read regular books - printed with bindings.

[mcscajun]

16. TinyURL is your friend.

www.tinyurl.com

And if you use Firefox, there's a TinyURL extension that puts the capability just a click away.
I swear by it. :)

[Karmakaze]

17. The only problem about TinyURL

is that you are basically handing my information (if I click on one of your links) to a private corporation with no agreement on how it is to be used. I prefer to link directly.

[xchrom]

5. and here i thought all clouds were unusual.

shows ya what i know.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Yea - but ones that glow in the dark?

How cool is that? I can't remember what caused the clouds that glow - happens pretty soon after sunset.

[xchrom]

15. oh yes! i think it's wonderful!

[dipsydoodle]

6. If you want to see some more cloud pics

go here : http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/

They interviewed the guy who runs this society on TV a while ago. He travels the world filming clouds and had some totally wild formations filmed in Australia.

Is cloud watching one notch up from trainspotting ? Check out their cloud of the month !

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. Oh thank you. I love clouds. I love weather.

We get some great weather here ifn the Midwest. We have some really impressive clouds when stuff gets to going.

We are supposed to have storms tonite - but I think the best ones will be north of Kansas city.

[dipsydoodle]

14. You're most welcome

The guy who runs that site coems over as very knowledgeable and certainly isn't a nerd. I also found some good pics when I just googled clouds and then hit images.

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. I found this pic in our Globe and Mail

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Scientists worried by rare cloud formation over Antarctica

Associated Press

HOBART, AUSTRALIA — Some of the coldest temperatures on Earth have fostered a rare cloud formation over Australia's Mawson station in Antarctica, scientists said Tuesday.

Meteorological officer Renae Baker captured spectacular images of the nacreous clouds, also known as polar stratospheric clouds, on July 25.

The clouds only occur at high polar latitudes in winter, requiring temperatures less than approximately minus 80 C. A weather balloon measured temperatures down to minus 87 C on the day the photos were taken.

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