Tim Vasquez
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Here in Austin we are having one of the darkest days I've seen in recent memory.
It's interesting to think what is causing it:
1. Low sun angle. We're 1 month from solstice.
2. Tropical air mass -> deep troposphere -> thick cloud layers. CRP was showing a tropopause at 43000 ft and saturated through the upper layers.
When the bulk of an embedded storm updraft was over us about ten minutes ago it was so dark that my digital camera could not take an outdoors picture without the flash. All the windows in our house look like twilight right now, and it's noon.
Interestingly, Mary Shelley was inspired by weather like this when she wrote Frankenstein, though it was in June rather than November. It was the coldest year on record in 1816 and Switzerland was getting tremendous convection every day (I assume with considerable mid- and high-level debris), making for dark and sometimes stormy conditions by afternoon. Her and some friends read ghost stories aloud and the Frankenstein idea came to her.
Tim
It's interesting to think what is causing it:
1. Low sun angle. We're 1 month from solstice.
2. Tropical air mass -> deep troposphere -> thick cloud layers. CRP was showing a tropopause at 43000 ft and saturated through the upper layers.
When the bulk of an embedded storm updraft was over us about ten minutes ago it was so dark that my digital camera could not take an outdoors picture without the flash. All the windows in our house look like twilight right now, and it's noon.
Interestingly, Mary Shelley was inspired by weather like this when she wrote Frankenstein, though it was in June rather than November. It was the coldest year on record in 1816 and Switzerland was getting tremendous convection every day (I assume with considerable mid- and high-level debris), making for dark and sometimes stormy conditions by afternoon. Her and some friends read ghost stories aloud and the Frankenstein idea came to her.
Tim
