What I find fascinating objects of beauty are the ways different clouds modify light or are illuminated by different kinds of light, from the belt of Venus to different kinds of halos to crepuscular and anti solar rays.

I remember that one time where anti-solar rays painted pole to pole "longitudes" on the hemispherical dome of the sky. It's too bad we don't have photographic memory, or at least I don't.

It is such a wonderful world if one has the luxury of time and space and the foresight to remove oneself from the cover of a ceiling once in a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_of_Venus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepuscular_rays#Gallery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticrepuscular_rays#/media/Fi...

I'm something of a cloud-enjoyer. If you're interested in learning more about clouds I'd recommend the international cloud atlas website. https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/en/home.html

Personal top three clouds:

- Nacreous clouds

- Altocumulus lenticularis

- Cirrus homogenitus (what a name)

Heh, based on the title, I thought this would be "10 Basic Clouds" for AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. in some sort of GoF "Design Patterns" lexicon.

Ironically the site is now giving a "The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later." Do I blame the cloud?

When I moved from the Bay Area to Austin, the first thing I realized: I missed seeing Cumulus clouds, which I saw a lot growing up in the midwest. Bay Area either has blue skies or Cirrus clouds, but never did see Cumulus clouds there.

finally something relaxing. nothing about AI or a reminder for myself to start another project with some new fancy method, no politics.

Thank you

Lol, i expected a comparison between the major cloud providers but had a hard time believing there would be ten of them.. Anyway, I should take a day of to look at some real clouds.

noaa got hug of death?

Can these clouds be predicted from physics?

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