Category Archives: weather

  I like to offer an explanation with many of the pictures I show.  But, I just don’t know what is going on here. I was walking beside some ponds on the south side of Kokanee Creek Park when I … Continue reading →

  Icicles? Well, it is cold, at the valley bottom, but there is no snow on roofs (at least where I live). Certainly snow on an roof or rock face might melt during the day and produce icicles, but there … Continue reading →

  It dawned with cool air this morning, but the water in the Lake was still warm. Then, cold drainage winds from the mountains rushed down and out over the Lake and steam fog formed.  But, one other feature was … Continue reading →

  When it is cold out, the lake often delivers steam fog; and, very occasionally, a steam devil. Steam fog is not formed by the same mechanism as, say, cumulous clouds or even radiation fog. The latter form when the … Continue reading →

  It is now approaching the maximum of the Sun’s eleven year cycle when the Sun’s poles flip and the solar wind is at its strongest. The collision of the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field causes the aurora. … Continue reading →

  I no longer travel much by plane, so my opportunity to see cloudbows and glories is not great. But last week, I flew to the Coast, and for most of the way the plane was above a thick layer … Continue reading →

  The glory is a beautiful phenomenon that is only rarely noticed. Its rarity results from the requirement that your shadow must be cast down onto a cloud in the centre of the glory. Mind you, to see your shadow … Continue reading →