My oldest daughter Deanna, has been asking to make a homemade tornado project for awhile. Today I got the idea of taken two 2-liter bottles and taping them together with army duct tape. To make the project work, I took one of the caps and cut a hole in the ... Continue Reading

Time to share another cloud formation with you. Another member of the cirrus family, Cirrus Fibratus (Ci fib). I guess my next post should be on Cirrus clouds.Not too much information out there on these clouds. Ice clouds that occur as long, relatively straight or slightly curved streamers, which neither ... Continue Reading

Started off this morning with some partly cloudy skies. When I took the photo this morning all I could think of was the old weather proverb, "Red sky in the morning, sailors warning, red sky at night sailors delight."This got me to thinking and I did a little research on ... Continue Reading

Thought I would share another type of cirrus cloud which are part of the high level clouds (those generally occurring at 16, 500 feet/5,000 meters). These clouds are called Cirrus Intortus (Ci in). Thin cirrus clouds include castellanus, fibratus, radiatus, spissatus, uncinus, intortus. Thin, white to light gray ice-crystal clouds ... Continue Reading

Thought I would share another type of cloud formation with you. Cirrus spissatus belong to the high level clouds and with the cirrus family. These are the highest of the main cloud genera, and may sometimes even occur in the lower stratosphere. The characteristic features of cirrus clouds are ... Continue Reading