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Tag: cloudspotting

Winter Sea Cumulus

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

The clouds always make a map for us. On winter mornings, the cumulus clouds map the sea. A lot more about this and the other…

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How to Gauge High Winds Using Trees

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020

The tops of trees or other fixed objects in the middle distance make it easier to gauge the effect of the wind on clouds or…

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Noctilucent Clouds

June 1, 2020June 8, 2020

A guest blog post today, from John Pahl: If you were to ask me what my favourite cloud would be, I wouldn’t hesitate: it has…

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Signs in the Sky – New Animation!

June 12, 2019June 12, 2019

Here is the second in the short series of short animations. Hope you enjoy! (If you missed the Water one, you can find that on…

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22 Degree Halo and Contrail Shadow

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019

My thanks to Alan Gibson, urbane forager and regular contributor to this blog, for another great image. In this picture we are looking at two…

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How to Navigate Using the Upper Winds and Clouds

April 3, 2019March 29, 2019

I have written in the past about the basics of using the weather to navigate. Here I’d like to offer a couple of tips to…

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A Brief Introduction to Cloud Clues

March 8, 2019March 5, 2019

Supercomputers churn mounds of data and give us a more accurate weather forecasts than our ancestors could manage. But there is something more satisfying about…

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Wayfinding with the Polynesian Voyaging Society

March 4, 2019March 19, 2019

Something a little different today – a guest blog. I am very grateful to Hye Jung Kim and all the team at Project Wayfinder for…

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Weather Lore

October 13, 2018April 29, 2020

Welcome to the page where I have collected a few weather lore sayings and laid out the meteorological truth, or otherwise, behind them. If you…

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