{"id":16979,"date":"2016-05-01T06:40:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16979"},"modified":"2016-05-01T06:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T13:40:16","slug":"sky-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16979","title":{"rendered":"Sky line"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The title is not a typo: this is about a sky line, not a skyline. The last time I saw a nice example of this was three years ago: sky lines<\/a>. This posting is an adaptation of what I wrote then, but with the current picture.<\/p>\n

A white line across the sky is easy to interpret: a contrail (a trail of condensation from aircraft).<\/p>\n

What about a dark line across the sky, such as seen here? This\u00a0line also results from a contrail, but indirectly. Here, the contrail is above the clouds and not\u00a0visible,\u00a0but the shadow it casts on a lower cloud traces a dark line across the sky.<\/p>\n

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