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I'm something of a cloud-enjoyer. If you're interested in learning more about clouds I'd recommend the international cloud atlas website. https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/en/home.html Personal top three clouds: - Nacreous clouds - Altocumulus lenticularis - Cirrus homogenitus (what a name)
I'm something of a cloud enjoyer myself. See also https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/
I'm something of a cloud-enjoyer. If you're interested in learning more about clouds I'd recommend the international cloud atlas website. https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/en/home.html Personal top three clouds: - Nacreous clouds - Altocumulus lenticularis - Cirrus homogenitus (what a name)
When I moved from the Bay Area to Austin, the first thing I realized: I missed seeing Cumulus clouds, which I saw a lot growing up in the midwest. Bay Area either has blue skies or Cirrus clouds, but never did see Cumulus clouds there.
I also wasn't sure what to make of "in the midwest". Not being from the US, I thought that that would be referring to Austin -- but when I asked Gemini, it confidently told me that Austin is not in the Midwest. I know the Bay Area is not in the Midwest, so... Are you referring to a third place here?
When I moved from the Bay Area to Austin, the first thing I realized: I missed seeing Cumulus clouds, which I saw a lot growing up in the midwest. Bay Area either has blue skies or Cirrus clouds, but never did see Cumulus clouds there.
Sorry but I can't make sense of this comment. If we assume "Bay Area either has blue skies or Cirrus clouds, but never did see Cumulus clouds there" is true, then the first sentence would make more sense if you had moved from Austin (which presumably has cumulus clouds) to the Bay Area (which doesn't, per your final sentence). I also wasn't sure what to make of "in the midwest". Not being from the US, I thought that…
Presumably he spent his youth in the Midwest. Austin is a pretty transient city so OP likely moved there.
Funny enough I have felt similar to OP about Texas skies compared to the East Coast. The plains landscape and the heat (common to the Midwest) seems to create a cloud overlay so very different from what you find on the coasts. Me, I'll keep my stratocumulus and cirrocumulus beautiful sunsets of the South Eastern United States anyday!
When I moved from the Bay Area to Austin, the first thing I realized: I missed seeing Cumulus clouds, which I saw a lot growing up in the midwest. Bay Area either has blue skies or Cirrus clouds, but never did see Cumulus clouds there.
I remember that one time where anti-solar rays painted pole to pole "longitudes" on the hemispherical dome of the sky. It's too bad we don't have photographic memory, or at least I don't.
It is such a wonderful world if one has the luxury of time and space and the foresight to remove oneself from the cover of a ceiling once in a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_of_Venus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepuscular_rays#Gallery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticrepuscular_rays#/media/Fi...
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Sorry but I can't make sense of this comment. If we assume "Bay Area either has blue skies or Cirrus clouds, but never did see Cumulus clouds there" is true, then the first sentence would make more sense if you had moved from Austin (which presumably has cumulus clouds) to the Bay Area (which doesn't, per your final sentence). I also wasn't sure what to make of "in the midwest". Not being from the US, I thought that…
Not OP, but: Moving back to Austin, the overwhelming number of cumulus clouds in the sky reminded him how much he enjoyed their marshmallowy appearance. They don't exist in the Bay, hence his first sentence being true. Presumably he spent his youth in the Midwest. Austin is a pretty transient city so OP likely moved there. Funny enough I have felt similar to OP about Texas skies compared to the East Coast. The plains…
