MetaFilter posts tagged with weather and clouds

Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd

swift — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:46:55 -0800

10 Rare Clouds. 20 Cool Clouds. NASA clouds. List of Cloud Types (wiki). previously

Giant Waves Over Iowa

geos — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:15:33 -0800

Undular Bore Waves

clouds from both sides now

nickyskye — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:46:55 -0800

Weather warfare. [more inside]

Sprites (atmospheric) - new movie

hank — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:04:46 -0800

7000 frames per second Newscientist article, with links to the movies. "Atmospheric 'sprites' captured in explosive detail ... by researchers using an ultra-high-speed camera. "The best images yet of the flashes – which resemble a giant undulating jellyfish with its tentacles falling from a halo of light – have allowed the team to pick apart their structure and mechanics. "

The Cloud Harp

nickyskye — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 04:37:47 -0800

The Cloud Harp. The transposition of a natural phenomenon into music. The melodies and sounds are determined by factors such as cloud height, density, structure, luminosity, and meteorological conditions.

Clouds

peacay — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:08:51 -0800

"We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wheresoever we find it!"
Clouds can be strange looking, majestic, colourful, freaky, ominous or electric to name but a few.
Perhaps you’d like to go cloud ’surfing’ in a glider along a 600 mile cloud formation that appears in Queensland (film links/explanation) later in the year?
Or would you rather view your clouds from satellite?
You can otherwise study cloud formations at your leisure if you want.

There’s a million more sites around of course – first link via.

Hurricanes are for suckOrZ

cedar — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:36:14 -0800

Enviromental absorbant products manufacturer, Dyn-O-Mat claims to have removed a cloud from Doppler radar and intends to test their product on a hurricane. They have a patent and everything. The federal government spent two decades on Project Stormfury, an attempt to halt storms by 'seeding' the eyewall of a hurricane. This guy says we are already doing it with the militaries High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. Even if we're not doing it now, we'll definately by own the weather by 2025. That is, unless we're intentionally causing storms.