Heavens Above!
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
It would only be natural that when there is a severe weather event people turn their heads up to the sky.
Those forlon clouds bearing down over the small speck of city. It’s kind of intimidating. And so we watch them, hoping trees are the only things bent against their will.
I have always had an interest in what goes on above my head because you can be anywhere in the world and observe something different. Sky watching is an active practice for an idle body.
You observe the coulds which can mean fair weather, clear skies or rain in the next few days. Our ancestors had to use this information to eke a living, and somewhere along the line we turned our heads down and forgot endless display above us.
Look above and learn your clouds. It’s an endless fascinating flick-book.
The below cloud is a Pyrocumulus which happens when a large fire intensely creates an updraft enough to form a cumulonimbus. Though it’s created by fire, the moisture condenses and will fall back as rain sometimes extinguishing the fire that it created. Lightning caused by the electrostatic charges by the particle updraft starts fires over again. Another fascinating circle of energy balanced perfectly by nature.
