Morning Glory 2010

Diane Davey flew her MotorFalke to the Gulf of Carpentaria to catch the elusive Morning Glory and was one of the very few to succeed this year. She and Erich Whitstock found a system right at the end of the season. She was interviewed on ABC radio.

http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2010/10/11/3034962.htm

Diane's blog:
http://morningglory2010.blogspot.com/

When I Grow Up...

I want to go loop the loop...

Sooo Predictable!

I wrote an email to Nigel a week or so back suggesting that there might be Morning Glory waves on the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th. He replied with a cute photo from the cockpit of their glider on the Glory of the 13th October, 2009. 20 years to the day.

They had one on the 11th, too, the first decent wave in nearly a fortnight. That of the 12th was a ripper, with lift of 1500 feet per minute. Amanda of Savannah Aviation tells me that Fuzzy Bob went up with Nigel this morning (the 14th) and they soared a weak one.

There will be a couple of MG tourists from Thailand tomorrow, so hopefully they'll get to fly in one of Savannah's aircraft as Rob and Nigel left after the wave this morning and theirs was the last glider. A great many MG clouds are not visible from the ground.

Cloudspotting

I just love coincidence, even tiny ones fascinate me. No-one ever sent me an email about wired.com before. Today I got two from different people about unrelated subjects. The first was about a BMW concept car, and the second about a new type of cloud, the first in 50 years.

Here's the the link to the new cloud discussed in Wired Magazine -
undulatus asperatus

And since we're speaking of clouds, here's another from Wired. The post says that these noctilucent clouds seen in the night skies of Europe and America could be yet another sign of ongoing global changes attributable to global warming.

The Youtube video 'Independence Day' cloud hovers above Moscow has been removed, but here's a link to it on NineMSN