Tuesday, April 06, 2010
When it Rains, It Pours
My astronomical efforts have been taking a bit of a beating recently, cloud, cloud and more cloud.But at least we got some much needed rain (all 50 mm of it). Woo-Hoo! Back home in Brisbane, that would be a brisk afternoon shower. Here it Adelaide, streets were flooded, houses flooded, and traffic came to a standstill.
Made going to work in the morning interesting. I and some other passengers took photos of the more "interesting" sections of the road.
More flooded streets.
Really flooded streets. The Electrical substation was awash too. A few more mm and we could have had some interesting blackouts.Labels: clouds, miscelaneous, weather
Friday, November 20, 2009
Then Like Lightnig...
Lightning flash seen from our backyard at 8:30 pm (click to embiggen).We hit a record today, the hottest November day since records began (43 degrees Celsius in the city, it was hotter elsewhere). This after a long string of 35 plus days. We are still officially in spring, temperatures like these should not happen until late January early February.
As I type we are still on catastophic fire alert, and multiple fires are burning on the Yorke Peninsula, with an extremely dangerous bushfire burning out of control at Pine Point on the Yorke Peninsula near Pine Point.
Today going outside felt like being dropped into a blast furnace. Walking up to the Science Communicators event my eyes felt like they were being peeled. Driving home from the event we saw a wall of dark heading towards us. We drove into the oncoming storm with the clouds glowing eerily from the setting sun. We drove along the beach accompanied by flashes of lightning, which put on a spectacular display over our house. I only captured one of these terrific blasts.
Typically, we only got a few drops of rain out of all the drama, and the teperature is now a chilly 33 degrees Celsius.
Friday, September 11, 2009
So much for that Occultation
The Moon looked really impressive rising through the cloud just above the horizon, but I sure a heck wasn't seeing any Pleiades. Anyone out there have a better experience?
Labels: clouds, Occultation
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Venus and the Moon through Clouds
So this morning the lineup was hidden behind cloud. I could see the Moon shining feebly through though.But I stood a moment watching. The clouds thinned and thickened, Venus appeared and disappeared, the whole was accompanied by smaller groups of cloud scudding rapidly across the sky, reddened by the still hidden Sun.
The whole thing was very beautiful, and I would have missed it if I had just said "Ugh, clouds"
(yes, Mars makes and appearacne in the image).
Labels: clouds, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Venus
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Cloud...
...so I didn't get to see Venus and the Moon, or Lulin, or much really.
Labels: clouds
Monday, November 17, 2008
Fire in the Sky
Just a sunset, but a really nice one. Venus is up there in the clouds, really visible when I took the shot, but didn't come out in the photoLabels: clouds
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Things you see when you don't have a camera (but do have a mobile phone)
The recent rain has has some good effects (apart for watering the parched soil and making farmers and gardeners happy). This beautiful view of the Sun rising behind dramatic clouds accompanied me to work recently.Labels: clouds
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