It looks as if you know plenty, Moose; and if you experienced a storm, it must
have been one :-)
But a storm is normally an isolated event, although it can be embedded in a
larger event, such as before a front. I haven't looked again at the image, but
I thought when I saw it that the wispy clouds in front were caused by the extra
moisture in air, presaging a change of air mass, like a front. If it had been
a storm I should have expected to see a dark, discrete mass from horizon to
heights.
Chris
On 18 Feb 2010, at 06:34, Moose wrote:
> I guess I don't know what a storm is? Lets see, the clouds come in like
> that, the wind veers south, picks up, then it rains. The rain started
> about an hour after the shot.
>
> Certainly a cold front was involved, but not necessarily the leading
> edge. Storms that look like whirligigs from above parade across the
> Pacific. As the storm moves east and the cloud bands rotate, we get
> varying degrees of stormy weather. If the center passes over us and it's
> big and/or slow moving, we can get rather continuous rain for many
> hours, even a couple of days. Otherwise, it comes in waves.
>
> I've experienced squalls elsewhere, but we really don't have them here,
> or VERY seldom.
>
> When I was born, my dad was teaching meteorology in the USAAF. I don't
> remember anymore the details of cloud types, etc., but he talked about
> clouds and weather when I was a kid. I have been paying atention to
> weather patterns in this same place for about 60 years. Back when I was
> a student at Berkeley, I was known for my ability to predict rather
> exactly when the rain would start from looking at the sky and the wind
> vane on South Hall.
>
> The whispy clouds in the foreground may be local bay phenomena, but
> either the main ones are storms clouds or we simply don't have storms
> here. :-)
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