June 16, 2008: Cloud Wake

This is a NASA photo of a cloud wake appearing on the downwind side of Isla Socorro, Mexico.


I wonder how high those clouds are above the water? I mean the island will obviously disturb the air flow around it, but I wonder how high above it?

Oooooh!
Not a very clever response, but my honest one.

Thank goodness it's not your way of passing on horrible news.
I thought I was going to have to don my black suit and drink Guinness for a moment.

I think it spells something. I can't quite make it out though. Maybe it is written in abu dhabi.

Ever wonder if clouds look at US and wonder "Do they look like anything to you?".

What?! I'm up, I'm up!

. . . five more minutes, mom . . .

xoxoxoBruce;462699 wrote:

I mean the island will obviously disturb the air flow around it, but I wonder how high above it?

The clouds seem to follow a pattern of two colors mixing together in the water. I wonder if the water has two different temperatures, and the cloud formations are influenced by the temperature of the water underneath them.

Does the warmer water have an algae bloom that changes the color?

Clouds picked up water from island, now have Montezuma's revenge.

Sundae Girl;462701 wrote:

Oooooh!
Not a very clever response, but my honest one.

Thank goodness it's not your way of passing on horrible news.
I thought I was going to have to don my black suit and drink Guinness for a moment.

What do you mean HAVE to drink Guinness? ;) Shouldn't the proper terminology be, GET to drink Guinness?

By the way, IOTD, very impressive!

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Twas the spam. And some of the dumbest spam I've ever seen too.




I was expecting to see a wake for a cloud.

These magnificent swirling clouds are the result of a meteorological phenomenon known as the Karman vortex, a repeating pattern of spinning vortices caused by the unsteady separation of flow over bluff bodies. They appeared over AlexanderSelkirk Island in the southern Pacific Ocean – off the coast of Chile – rising voluptuously from the surrounding waters and creating a stunning spiral effect.

and check out the rest of the 30 Best Landsat 7 images here. Each is worthy of IotD IMHO.

Thanks to you, they now are, all IOtD.:D

Coign;462732 wrote:

I think it spells something.

Sure does. sssssssssssssssss.

I think it spells [SIZE="6"]%[/SIZE][SIZE="6"]%[/SIZE][SIZE="5"][COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]%[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DimGray"]%[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE="2"][COLOR="Silver"]%[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE="1"][COLOR="LemonChiffon"]%[/COLOR][/SIZE]

BigV;470072 wrote:

I think it spells [SIZE="6"]%[/SIZE][SIZE="6"]%[/SIZE][SIZE="5"][COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]%[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DimGray"]%[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE="2"][COLOR="Silver"]%[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE="1"][COLOR="LemonChiffon"]%[/COLOR][/SIZE]

Well if % means parts per hundred, then would %%%%% mean parts per 10 billion? Sounds like an atmospheric concentration of something nasty. Is nature trying to tell us something?

Hmm, thats thought provoking - now I'll have to go get coffee and get my brain started.