Full Of Fish Scales This Morning

Singapore 24 August 2013 Merlion Wayfarer woke up to a sky full of fish scales this morning... Cirrocumulus clouds are often found in rows and they look like little puffed-up ripples. Some people think these clouds look like fish scales. The broken or rippled nature of these clouds is caused by air turbulence - It's bad news for anyone flying through them, but great news on the ground because these clouds usually mean that the weather...

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Moon No Blue Enough

Singapore 20 August 2013 Merlion Wayfarer read from Earth Sky that the moon on these two nights will be blue.  There are different definitions for Blue Moon. By popular acclaim, Blue Moon refers to the second of two full moons in a single calendar month. A Blue Moon might also be the third of four full moons in a single season – a season being defined as the time period between a solstice and an equinox, or vice versa. Or, someday, you...

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Hello Moon Halos!

Singapore August 2013 There were two rainbow-tinted rings around the moon last night. - TWO! The rings that encircled the moon arose from light passing through six-sided ice crystals high in the atmosphere. These ice crystals refract, or bend, light in the same manner that a camera lens bends light. The crystals have to be oriented and positioned just so with respect to your eye, in order for the halo to appear. The ring has a diameter...

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Orange Fire In The Sky

Singapore  17 August 2013 This morning, the sunlight was golden. The walls of the buildings nearby were awash with slanted yellow rays. In the horizon loomed a strip of cumulonimbus clouds. True enough, by mid-afternoon, a fiery thunderstorm swept across Singapore. In the evening, the sky was still awash with Stratus and Altocumulus clouds... In places, thins wisps were being blown away by the strong wind... At around 1900h,...

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