Category Archives: weather

Official local site

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Alistair

  bing.com (the Microsoft and Yahoo search engine) tries to add helpful information alongside its listings. So, if one searches for Vancouver Canada, out of the many million listings bing produces, it labels the one from the city, itself, as … Continue reading →

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15-seconds of fame

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Alistair

  Today on ten-minutes’ notice, I was interviewed for a BBC science programme. Unexpectedly, I was asked to comment on an article in a British newspaper with the intriguing title: Passenger’s amazing photo captures moment her plane flew directly over … Continue reading →

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Fog, turkeys, hoboes

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Alistair

  In the cool early morning, steam fog rose from a stream and drifted over the countryside. Wild turkeys are silhouetted in the morning mist as they feed in a field. As the fog drifts by, its droplets are intercepted by … Continue reading →

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Eclipse

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Alistair

  There was a lunar eclipse in the early hours of today. When the Moon is in the Earth’s umbra (totally in shadow), sunlight cannot reach it directly. Yet it glows with two different colours: red and blue. Both are … Continue reading →

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Collecting web

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Alistair

  The chaotic web of an orb-weaver spider has collected drops from a fog that drifted by. (These are not dewdrops.)

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Rainbow notes

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Alistair

  I found yesterday’s rainbow picture to be so delicious that it had to be savoured alone: it was the nicest shot I have managed of a semicircular bow replete with its reflection in the calm waters of the Lake.  Yet, during the half-hour I watched … Continue reading →

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Sunset shower

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Alistair

 

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Circumhorizontal arc

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Alistair

  It’s that time of year: mid-day in June is the time to watch for the circumhorizontal arc. The arc forms low in the sky when the Sun is high. I watched for it yesterday, but did not have a good … Continue reading →

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Advection fog

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Alistair

  Advection fog is the name given to the fogs that form, usually in the summer, when warm moist air from the land flows offshore (is advected) over a much colder ocean. Simple books will claim that it is merely … Continue reading →

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Rip

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Alistair

  A rip is stretch of fast-flowing and rough water. Much confusion arises from that simple definition: In the public’s mind, the only rip is the particular one that is often called a rip current, but, given its provenance, really should really … Continue reading →

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