Monday, January 8, 2018

Sunrise


Contrail to popular opinion that is just burned jet fuel.


11 comments:

ndspinelli said...

Jet engines burn more efficiently in this cold air we are experiencing.

ndspinelli said...

Leon Russell and Joe Cocker were a match made in heaven.

The Dude said...

Indeed they were - I am thankful that I got to see them both.

AllenS said...

Today, the temp reached 29º ABOVE ZERO. A couple of days ago when the sun was starting to rise, it was 28º BELOW. More proof of GLOBAL WARMING. WOOOT WOOOOOOOT!

Leland said...

Actually it is mostly just water that has condensed on the much smaller carbon particles that is indeed jet exhaust. But we wouldn't see much of the carbon particles if the water didn't form around it, freeze to ice, and then hang in air until it melts in the sun.

Which then can eventually create rain, if it ever reached the crowd; so it is really a secret government experiment to seed the sky for rain causing mass flooding like Harvey and kill off people living in the South.

Or maybe not.

deborah said...

Yep. Below zero wind chill last week, projected to be in the mid-fifties on Thursday.

Great pic, Sixty, love the parallel contrails.

ricpic said...

Some look to the sky for release,
Some find solace in gravel,
Suddenly comes true happiness
Picking the lint from the navel.

The Dude said...

I went for a walk this evening and got rained on - how wonderful is that? Rain, actual liquid precipitation fell upon me. The temperature will not go below freezing until the weekend, when winter will return. But for now we celebrate!

deborah said...

Rain for Sixty, and ricpic rhyming navel and gravel. Damn, life is good :)

chickelit said...

I prefer the Alex Chilton version of "The Letter."

chickelit said...

As for the photo, we knew this was all a jet stream phenomenon.