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Originally posted by DerepentLEstranger
Remember sound travel the same speed as light, Geeez!! (you know of whom I speak)
of course sounds travel at the speed as light,
when you're using radio Geeez
Originally posted by Xtrozero
I'm going to suggest something here...
Looking at the pictures I see the sun is the lowest in the first pictures the ones with the eariler times (like 8:35 and 8:41), and highest in the later pictures (like 9:06)
The OP (by mistake maybe) got the pictures in the wrong order. What I see if you follow the pictures backwards, treating the last ones as actually the first, you see a sky that is hazy and breaks up into fingers then into a clear night sky.
The contrails in the first pictures were being formed after all the hazy fingered clouds had already dissipated. (and not the other way around as the OP suggests with the contrails first then the fingers)
The sun doesn't lie my friends..... so look at the pictures in reverse...
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by Xtrozero
X....it is the Moon in the photos.
Peace.
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by pianopraze
RE: those photos, more thoughts:
Amongst all of the data and tools to use, another is to look up the winds aloft, at that time. The spreading of the contrails is indicative of the mixing going on, due to normal atmospheric forces, such as winds, and horizontal wind shears. Also, the "spreading" is not just the original contrails "thinning out" .... what you see are more cirrus being formed, due to the very presence of the contrails!
They, by just being there, act as triggers.....the air mass was already ripe for cirrus to form...it just took the passage of the airliners to provide the stimulus.
Try to understand......Evenif some sort of "particulates" were being intentionally "sprayed"....there still has to be a physical atmospheric mechanism to cause a spreading effect. There is simply no way there could be enough mass of "material" to "spray" and lead to that much as observed. It HAS to be the water vapor that was already present, and was invisible, until it condensed out and formed the tiny ice particles that comprise cirrus clouds.
See? This thread, your photos, prove nothing about "chemtrails". Since really...."chemtrails" simply do not exist in the first place; this is known. However, the images are indicative of what is observed frequently, and well understood by many, of contrails.
I don't understand your comments about "never" having seen this before. When I lived just about in your area (well, in Northern Virgina) I saw it frequently. But, I know how to interpret what I see, based on life experience.
You fail to factor in there were two sets of planes... one set making these and one set not.
Originally posted by DerepentLEstranger
reply to post by tomdham
oh i read your entire post
unlike you bypassing mine
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Originally posted by Phage
You are looking at data for the wrong period and the wrong altitudes.
9:00 PM EST is 2:00 AM (March 8) UTC.
200mb represents an altitude of about 39,000 feet. That's pretty high for traffic in that area. 250mb is about 35,000 feet, a little more realistic. Here's the RUC model output. Please note that this is not actual data, but a computer model. The model shows moisture moving into your area, if a bit delayed. But remember, it's a computer forecast, not hard data.
Here is the water vapor imagery. It matches quite will with the contrail forecast and shows the moisture moving into your area.
All in all, it's not surprising that persistent contrails were seen to form from planes at a certain altitude. And that cloud cover increased as the weather moved in.
edit on 3/10/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by pianopraze
You fail to factor in there were two sets of planes... one set making these and one set not.
That is simple.....this happens because they are at different altitudes.
Sorry but, I have to repeat this over and over again.
You see the flights, but you don't know their exact altitudes until (or if) you check on Flight Aware. If you had logged very carefully each and every flight, and compared what you observed to the facts about each one, then you could begin to see a relationship and it will make better sense.
There was NO conditions for contrails.. and EVEN IF THER WERE... it does not explain the TWO SETS of planes
Select a pressure value between 200 and 250 mb for the best estimate.
There were many many more planes in the sky... all at high altitude.