Noon turns to night as cloud blacks out sun

Noon turns to night as cloud blacks out sun
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-11-12

Day turned to night across Shenyang when a freak cloud formation 8,000 metres deep blanketed the northeastern city.

For over half-an-hour noon was as black as midnight. Cars, buses and lorries went someway to breaking up the darkness.

Tremendous lightening flashes accompanied the phenomena, reports the website www.sina.com.cn....cont'd

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/12/content_390884.htm

8,000 meters thick? Wow!

Serious question: Are Hurricanes: Scalar?


TV Weatherman Scott Stevens' Page


I received an incredibly interesting email from TV weatherman Scott Stevens who folks in the Pacific Northwest may recognize. He's been taking a lot of pictures of anomalous clouds and sent us the following email (used by permission). This report was first presented during the last week of October 2004, but Scott followed up a CD of dozens of photos of "digitized" looking weather - which are appended following his report...


Take a look - read his report - look at the pictures - and see if everything looks "normal" to you... He's got dozens of pictures that don't look like anything in the textbooks to us...cont'd

More Pictures Here: http://urbansurvival.com/stevens.htm

In fact, I can't resist quoting it:

"Look at those clouds, Jane!" he croaked. "Clouds are never supposed to look like that! We're gonna get ridden down and stomped flat out here, just like two of those rabbits!"

"Take it easy! You're losing it!"

"Don't talk down to me, just look up at the sky!"

Jane, against her own will, looked up. The dust had thinned, and the sun was higher, and the cirrus clouds looked utterly bizarre. There were hundreds of little growing patches of it, now. Shapes just like frost on a window pane, like patchy mutant snowflakes. The clouds looked like a down feather might look if you shot ten thousand volts through it.

<...>

It looked like a tiling pattern. Like ceramic tiling. The Oklahoma sky was tiled like a bathroom floor.

"Benard convection does that sometimes," Jane babbled. "The cells have six diferent axes of rotation and that self-similarity has gotta mean that the cell updraft vectors are all, well..."

Words failed her. Words failed her quite suddenly, and really badly. A kind of software crash for language. Words--yeah, even scientific words--there were times and contingencies when reality ripped loose from verbal symbolism and just went its own goddamned way. And this was one of those times.

(From "Heavy Weather", by Bruce Sterling)