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And just what is your definition of an expert? Gung-ho hobbyist? BS diploma? Masters with thesis of "The latency of of the airmass above 60N at 500mb? An Eskimo elder with 39+ different words for "snow"?

Time for another foray into atmospheric optics. Thank you and I am honored that the 2020 thread has over 8,900 views already. As usual I will be erasing the rest of 2019 and 2020 to make room for this years crop as I go along. Finally broke the run of 100% stratus today. Good thing it as my day off of work. Started off with a vertical image at 48mm... A normal orientation at 26mm...

Digging a little myself I see the datum for Lake Erie is 571'. So that puts you around 179' above the Lake. For comparison I am at 948' here and Lake Michigan's datum is 577'. So I am 377' above Michigan. But then I am over 100miles away from the Lake. I sort of guessed that you would have been a lot closer to the Lake elevation seeing how you are so close to the Lake.

What is the elevation of Lake Erie (avg.) there at Buffalo?

Merry Christmas everyone. The sunset was nice this evening. The temps and conditions ere not. Around five (when these were shot) KIND was reporting 13 with a wind chill of -2. It was kind of brutal especially down at the water. The yellow The orange... And for the red I had retreated back to the car because I had hit the cold limit. There is new construction going on there with equipment and stone piles. I was able to shot around the equipment but the stone piles had to stay in... Cheers!

That will hurt. Literally.

Last sunset of Autumn. Was a decent sunset and fortunately happened on my one day off of the week. Local sunset. And look how far south the Sun is. The almanac says it sets at 240 degrees. 30 degrees south of due west. The red was rather sparse and spread out...

in Orlando, FL ????

Not much to the sunset this evening but anything is better than the 100% stratus that is the seasonal usual. So the white cirrus over the yellow low level is a nice change. This was taken from the sidewalk of the bank next door to my house.

Oddities of oddities, the earliest sunset is around Dec. 07 here at KIND. Yeah the sunrises are still compressing but at least we will stop the bleeding here in less-than-a-handful of days in the back-half.

How does the weenie Dictionary go? DAB, DAB+, grassy accumulation, Shattered dendrites wisping across the road, Trace, Trace+, buried snow board, dumping, dumping+, bomb bomb+ ????

LAF gets seven and IND is shut out? One heck of a gradient.

A slight disturbance was sliding through from the northwest this evening...

0.94 in my tippy bucket. KIND says 0.80 in theirs. Of course now that the growing season is kaput it decides to rain.

That will fog the windows.

Had a gorgeous sunrise this morning. Started off with some vivid red... The extent of the orange... A look to the south... The last of the yellow... Only one from the sunset this evening. The brief red flash... Cheers!

Only 72 at KIND. But I will gladly take room temperature in November.

Threw the whole paint bucket at tonight's sunset. Looking southeast when I got out to the pond and the white... Beginning of the post sunset and the yellow with some crepuscular rays... The beginning of the red up high and some even more prominent crepuscular rays... There was a narrow plume of, I am guessing smoke, from Iowa to Illinois. Made for an extreme violet flash. This looks almost photoshopped but it is not. Amazing color! Good night my darlin', where ever you are...

Just for comparison, how many births today?

How to tell it is autumn? When you look at the visual satellite and over 80% of the lower 48 is having cloudy conditions.

The race was on this afternoon between the dry air and the leftover low level moisture. The dry air won but I did get two images. Looking southeast when I got to the pond... Looking southwest close to sunset...

Was out at the pond again this evening. Just after sunset, while there still as some white in the clouds... While there was s smidge of red, there was not enough to call it a red flash. Maybe a burnt orange flash? Umber flash? Whatever it was, here is the last of the evening...

Snow invades the lower 48 outside of the Rockies...

Was not expecting much this evening. But seeing how I have this problem of needing to take sunset pics, of course I was out there. When I got there the Sun peeked out and spot-lit some clouds... If this was the best of the color I would have been happy... But I was surprised by what happened next. I will say in the next two images I am not happy with the blue in both images. But when I tried to knock it down the images either went too yellow or too green. So the wild blue will stay. When the red flash occurred I had the 100mm on seeing how I thought if any red did occur, it would be well to the south of me. So I was only able to image part of the red when it originally happened... After a frantic lens change to the 24-70mm, I as able to better show just how much of the horizon went red. And boo-hiss to the excessive blue... Cheers!

That is the perfect amount of snow. Shows off the brickwork pattern very nicely.