{"id":9087,"date":"2013-11-21T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2013-11-21T18:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T02:02:50","slug":"clear-and-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9087","title":{"rendered":"Clear and cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday dawned clear and cold. The rain had stopped; the stratus was gone. The day offered many delights, a few of which are below.<\/p>\n<p>Birds improve their insulation by fluffing feathers. This heron has fluffed the feathers on its breast and belly.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9090\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/heron121120s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cold air over the (warmer) water causes vertical temperature gradients that result in both mirages and convection. The strange structure near the centre of the picture is a portion of the cable ferry at Harrop. Most of the hull has vanished; the bridge is seen right way up and inverted; the whole thing appears to be floating above the surface of the water. Turbulence from the convection has further garbled its image.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9091\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mirage131120s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the Sun sets in the west, an eastern ridge provides a backdrop for both shadow and reddened sunlight.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9089\" ondblclick=\"return false\" onmouseup=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/twilightsnows131120s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The backdrop for the transition from shadow to reddened sunlight is now the atmosphere, itself. The dark lower region is the Earth&#8217;s shadow. The pinkish upper region is called the anti-twilight arch. Although Sphinx Mountain is no longer in direct sunlight, it nevertheless also appears coloured. This is the alpenglow: the snow is illuminated by the pinkish skylight.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9088\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/antitwilightarc131120s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yesterday dawned clear and cold. The rain had stopped; the stratus was gone. The day offered many delights, a few of which are below. Birds improve their insulation by fluffing feathers. This heron has fluffed the feathers on its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9094,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}