Iowa woman’s (old) photo sparks push for new cloud type

[Paradox74]

http://weatherwars.info/?p=92

"This June 20, 2006 photo provided on Monday, June 8, 2009 and taken by Jane Wiggins from a downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa office building shows what may become the first new cloud type to be recognized by scientists since 1951. "


I don't know much about weather, but when someone has a high-quality photo of some extraordinary event, such as a space alien or bigfoot, normally you would not wait for three years before telling someone about it. Also, why didn't we see this on the news? It's kind of hard to suppress the entire population who can see this kind of cloud formation in the middle of the day. Finally, some of these photos, such as Eastern Idaho - November 2005 and Kansas City Missouri - 2006, can be easily photo manipulated, especially with the use of Photoshop's liquify tool.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I remember the day that happened -- a bunch of us went outside to snap pics and gawk at them. Are you suggesting that they had a supernatural cause, or that they've been covered up somehow? (Hint: they did get coverage in the local papers. )

- Scott

 

[Biscuit]

I think the bulk of the discussion is summed up early in these three sentences,

Brant Foote, a longtime scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the clouds photographed by Wiggins already fit into the existing cumulous classification.

But Pretor-Pinney, who never studied meteorology, believes the clouds merit their own cumulus sub-classification. He proposes they be called altocumulus undulatus asperatus.

As far as suppressing the information it clearly has not been done well as we are talking about it. Why three years later? I guess clouds are not as sexy a they use to be.

Google the proposed new name and you get a lot of info.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=altocumulus+undulatus+asperatus&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Maybe it just wasn't on any news you saw?

 

[Ocelot]

"These clouds wouldn’t be photographed as frequently as they are without the stimulation of the planet’s Orgone energy field, artificial and space based introduction of gravity waves into the atmosphere and the additional host of other environmental manipulations that remain active to this very moment."

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