"Crop Circles in the Sky", with cute little tails sticking out of them
We covered bizarre cloud formations before, but there seems to be no end of them... The tsunami-looking fog wave was strange enough, and now these "gateways in the sky" - circular absence of clouds, with wispy tendrils reaching out of them...
Punch Hole Clouds may appear as a circular or oval holes in a layer of supercooled clouds; sometimes they assume a form of a perfect circle and persist for quite a long time, drifting together with the cloud layer. One explanation seems to blame the air traffic (the jet contrail intersections) combined with a thermal inversion (a circular motion of a rising warm air). Here is one, observed over the Gunnison Valley in Colorado:
It seems both rising and sinking air currents can create the same effect. Sometimes a very stable, uniform layer of high-altitude clouds can get "punched though" by a pocket of cold air, which sinks toward the ground - creating the circular hole formation.
(image credit: Neil Johnson(The Tampa Tribune) and Gwen Swinburne)
These "cloud holes" can look like the footprints of some celestial being (UFO enthusiasts rejoice!) or can be amazingly round, like this pair observed in Gallatin, Tennessee by Wayne Carter:
NASA Terra satellite equipped with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) has captured these images over Acadiana area in southern Louisiana - a splattering of round holes actually stretched over several states: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Some were elongated, some appeared to have smaller clouds inside them.
"This strange phenomenon resulted from a combination of cold temperatures, air traffic, and perhaps unusual atmospheric stability. The cloud blanket on January 29 consisted of supercooled clouds. Supercooled clouds contain water droplets that remain liquid even though the temperature is well below freezing, and such clouds are not unusual. As aircraft from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport passed through these clouds, tiny particles in the exhaust came into contact with the supercooled water droplets, which froze instantly. The larger ice crystals fell out of the cloud deck, leaving behind the “holes,” while the tiniest ice particles in the center remained aloft." (source)
Theodore von Karman's "Cloud Vortices" are something else, again: they form when the wind encounters a barrier - such as the Aleutian islands, in this case - and the flowing eddies of cloud create a weird pattern. The image you see below was photographed from the International Space Station, and the animation shows the double row of vortices, which rotate opposite from each other.
...that make our sky worthy to look at from time to time (those who only look at the computer monitor, take note). Here is an extremely strong thunderstorm cloud that brewed over northwest Calgary:
Awesome pictures!!! I am 47 years old and have never seen those circular holes in clouds. Are they rare? Could they be doctored photos? ALL of these photos are spectacular.
No, it's not an photoshop pics, this is a real LOW LEVEL WINDSHEER.. wikipedia this and you will know what am I talking about. We, pilots, call it the SHARKS OF THE SKY!
"Two light-sabers get crossed in the sky" is actually evidence of chemical trails reported primarily in the US. These are commonly thought of as contrails which are another thing entirely. http://chemtrails911.com/
So many of these are way too symmetrical to just be naturally caused "holes in the clouds" (eg. the long rectangular one with rounded off corners). More than likely some of these are recharge points for cloaked UFO's. Which gives a whole new significance to these pics. Anyways check it- http://www.esoterictube.com/secret-space-volume-one-the-illuminatis-conquest-of-space.html
This is one I made some years ago in my country: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tharasia/40520993/ I call it OVNI (the spanish word for UFO). Excellent blog!!!
Last year I saw a wave of steam formed by a nearby pulp mill and was lucky enough to get some pictures. You can check them out here if you're interested.
These are seriously cool pictures and love your site .Thanks for sharing. I love cloud pictures. On my blog, I have these cool clouds pictures that you also might like to look at:
The website you give as Kow Yokoyama's is actually a modeling site called Krueger's Kriegers. It is a tribute site to the Yokoyama-designed "SF3D" et. al. model kits and the world which they inhabit. While there are many excellent SF3D/MaK ZBv3000 sites (my personal favourite and the one I use for reference is http://www.roboterkampf.com/), Kow's homepage is http://homepage3.nifty.com/kow/.
"True to the name, this movement sings jazzy paens to convoluted and impressive tangles of pipes, chambers, pistons, and has the mighty horse-power in the center of it all."
No. That is incorrect. With a diesel motor, Torque is much more important than horse-power.
@ owr084 Horsepower is a number derived from measured torque. The formula is: HP = (RPM × Torque) ÷ 5252 (Anytime you see a graph showing an engine's horsepower and torque curves you'll notice they cross at 5'252 RPM) As a result, engines that redline below 5'252 will make higher torque figures than HP and vice versa. As diesel engines typically don't rev very high, they make much higher torque figures than horsepower.
Another excellent cup o' justice, Avi! Thanks for all the High Weirdness!
I think I like the term "dieselpulp" and "steampulp" better, because they encompass more flavors than just the raw-edged *punk does. (See the most excellent Brass Goggles blog for 'steampulp' and other terms floating around.)
The lion in the race car? I'm guessing that's Gilmore, the famous flying lion and co-pilot of barnstormer extraordinaire and speed-racer Roscoe Turner, who bought Gilmore as a cub and flew with him to generate publicity for his sponsor, the Gilmore Oil Company. http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/turner/EX22.htm
Also teh first clip is from a movie called "Gizmo!". It was one of my favorites when I was a kid. My brother and I wore the old VHS tape out watching it over and over again. I just checked amazon they have one "new" copy for sale for $150. Somebody really needs to get the masters and put that guy on DvD. It's truely an awesom movie.
That is indeed from "Amazon Women on the Moon". It's from the "Bullsh*t or Not" sketch, lampooning the old "Unsolved Mysteries" TV show. In that particular "Bullsh*t Re-enactment", they were investigating whether Jack the Ripper was actually the Loch Ness Monster.
I found that pic with the lion on the wall of death too, and could not identify it... still can't, I can't find anything linking Roscoe Turner with the wall of death. Lions, however were fairly common on the walls. Lots of them were at it.. He might be "King", trained by the Pelaquin family, but maybe not. http://www.thrillarena.com/Lion_Dromes1/lion_dromes1.html
I'm not sure where you see "Long Live the Policy of Army First!" in the North Korean art. On the wall behind her at the top of the bulletin, it says "Our Skill." The arch seen out the window looks like it says "We are happy" although I can't read the final symbol.
Speaking of Mountains of Madness and aliens, I would recommend the reading of "At the Mountains of Madness", by H.P. Lovecraft. A great novel depicting the epic journey of a scientific expedition on the antarctic continent.
I've been in Scotts' Hut at Cape Evans. I stood next to his bed and saw the newspaper he left on the table. I admit that I felt a very eerie feeling and think that the 5 that died visit their abandoned huts.
The article only mentions Discovery Hut but the better preserved is the one at Cape Evans where they were last. You can still smell the ponies.
Correct, its not a harpoon its a power saw for slicing the heads of whales prior to boiling down. I have seen one of these in action at Cheynes beach whaling station at Albany Western australia, 1970s. The place was horrendous.
Your storyis all kinds of.. I dunno... wrong. You say 1000 to 4000 people at South Pole depending on the season? Sorry bro but there is only one south pole station and it cannot, ever, accomodate 1000 people. try 300 in the summer (max) and about 60-90 winter (depending on budget).
Your source is about Antarctica... NOT the south pole. Calling all of the Antarctica as "south pole" is like calling all of Europe by the name London. Or better yet, its like calling All of north America by the name of Quebec.
Hello, the building with the big hole in the facade is a design of the holland architecture studio MVRDV. It´s called "El Mirador", and it´s on the Sanchinarro neighbourhood. Google it and you will found a lot of info.
about Kazakhstan arhitetury: these buildings are not in Almaty and Astana (the capital). And the first - it's just a monument, and the second - building of the Ministry of Transport.
ummm i think thoes Terminator Posters are for Terminator 4. not 3.
to be honest i initaily didnt know what version they were up to since T3 was a total stinker. T4 should be heaps better tho Christian Bale should do a pretty good job of it, so long as the script doesnt suk to badly.
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Awesome pictures!!! I am 47 years old and have never seen those circular holes in clouds. Are they rare? Could they be doctored photos? ALL of these photos are spectacular.
No, it's not an photoshop pics, this is a real LOW LEVEL WINDSHEER.. wikipedia this and you will know what am I talking about. We, pilots, call it the SHARKS OF THE SKY!
Beautifully scary photos!!!
Dark roasted blend is an inspiration, how do people send you pictures, it must have taken you hours compiling this material
"Two light-sabers get crossed in the sky" is actually evidence of chemical trails reported primarily in the US. These are commonly thought of as contrails which are another thing entirely.
http://chemtrails911.com/
Christopher is, of course, barking mad.
"Chemtrails" are a conspiracy theory so utterly and obviously ridiculous that it's astounding anyone can even believe in them.
Thanks for the Super Cool(ed) clouds.
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So many of these are way too symmetrical to just be naturally caused "holes in the clouds" (eg. the long rectangular one with rounded off corners). More than likely some of these are recharge points for cloaked UFO's. Which gives a whole new significance to these pics. Anyways check it- http://www.esoterictube.com/secret-space-volume-one-the-illuminatis-conquest-of-space.html
Russell White (#23) should be the credited photographer on that second Roll Cloud picture fyi .. man i'm a cloud geek to know that!
Wow...those are just gorgeous! I'm going to be using one of Russell White's images tomorrow for my Zen Moment of the Day with a link back to you;)
Thanks!
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Awesome cloud pictures. The fire breathing dragon is my new desktop photo.
This is one I made some years ago in my country:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tharasia/40520993/
I call it OVNI (the spanish word for UFO).
Excellent blog!!!
the "light sabers" thing happens to be extremely common near big airports. Pensacola has crossing con-trails (sp?) every single day.
What a spectacular photos. I never see cloud hole before.
Last year I saw a wave of steam formed by a nearby pulp mill and was lucky enough to get some pictures. You can check them out here if you're interested.
http://schoonerhelm.vox.com/library/post/ribbon-in-the-sky.html
These are seriously cool pictures and love your site .Thanks for sharing. I love cloud pictures. On my blog, I have these cool clouds pictures that you also might like to look at:
http://www.collthings.co.uk/2008/06/10-very-rare-clouds.html
http://www.collthings.co.uk/2008/05/20-cool-clouds.html
Cool... It's resly cool
lots of these pictures are strong evidence and plain ol' "effects" of chemtrails.
Very nice! Delicious!
The hole pictures look like poorly cloaked UFOs ._.
Kind of creepy looking at these clouds. Too bad these clouds aren't available here.
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