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Something New To View In The Night Sky.

Started by WhatTheHey, July 17, 2019, 03:50:06 AM

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  Just looking about on line and saw this article about clouds called, "Night-shining 'noctilucent' clouds".   
   


  Scientists are looking into why these noctilucent clouds are showing up further south then they are usually seen.
Sunlit wisps of high clouds remain luminescent even after sundown. A surprising number of such noctilucent clouds have been spotted in the Northern Hemisphere and  as far south as Oklahoma and New Mexico.


   "These clouds typically float in the mesosphere about 80 kilometers above Earth's surface, and are visible at high latitudes. They gleam blue or white when they catch the sun's rays, even after the night has fallen on land. "They're beautiful," says James Russell, an atmospheric scientist at Hampton University in Virginia. "It's hard to take your eyes off of them, because they're so iridescent.
   The clouds form when cold temperatures, around −130° Celsius, cause water vapor to condense and freeze around dust particles, making nanometer-sized ice crystals. What stood out in June was how wet the mesosphere was. "It's record-setting," says Lynn Harvey, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder."   By Carolyn Wilke, 10:00am, July 16, 2019.

   

   Could this be an illuminated example of global climate change?  Hmmmmmm............. Could beeeee!   ;)  It does seem that contrasting weather patterns, (weather with high differences in temperature, pressures and humidity, ect...) are coming together and creating huge and powerful storms.  Some of the most resent weather systems we have been having are covering very large areas.  Maybe spreading out of these huge systems is causing this phenomenon to move into new areas.
   I guess this could be another nudge in humanities side, but if this is a nudge, it's a very beautiful one.  ;D  I would enjoy seeing this with my live eyes.  lol  Maybe snap a couple photos too.  8)


   

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