{"id":879,"date":"2020-03-03T19:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rissarenae.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2020-03-03T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:34:57","slug":"head-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rissarenae.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/head-in-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Head in the Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not much, just clouds. Because apparently I take a lot of pictures of clouds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I haven’t posted in forever, so . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cirrus clouds, little whispy guys that just hang out when it’s warm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The haze of altocumulus clouds over the neighbourhood playground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mammatus clouds, the acne of thunderstorms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dunno, really. I think it’s a nimbostratus cloud, but it’s still cool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A unique phenomenon in my area of Canada: a chinook
A couple pictures of a typical chinook arch at sunset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Altocumulus undulatus clouds, like waves in the sand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The underbelly of a large cumulus cloud at sunset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The chemtrail of a passing airliner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An approaching cumulonimbus thunderhead creeping in to Kemah Boardwalk in Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A roll cloud rollin’ in!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A cold core funnel cloud (the fluffy puppy of tornadoes) trailing a thunderstorm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Quick snap of an actual funnel cloud from my office building before we were ordered to the basement to seek shelter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A sundog.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance … altostratus clouds reflecting off Sandakan Bay at low tide, from my mum-in-law’s back deck in the water village of Sim-Sim, Sandakan in Sabah (Malaysia).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not much, just clouds. Because apparently I take a lot of pictures of clouds. And I haven’t posted in forever, so . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6odz9-eb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":799,"url":"https:\/\/www.rissarenae.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/you-know-what-i-did-this-summer\/","url_meta":{"origin":879,"position":0},"title":"You Know What I Did This Summer","author":"Rissa Renae","date":"October 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh no, it's nothing nefarious . . . unless you count not writing as nefarious. 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