Sunset Waves Nite
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Sunset Waves Nite
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
A winter storm was approaching Singleton Lake as reveals by the large arch of the deformation zone advancing steadily from the western horizon. Even though the storm was steadily advancing northeastward, the winds in the atmosphere frame of reference where the clouds live were perpendicular to this motion and the gravity wave clouds. The clouds looked like a zipper, unzipping. These clouds were moving from the northwest meaning that the col of the deformation zone was thus further to the northwest as well. This facthad the implication that the thrust of the system would be over northeastern Ontario and not over Singleton Lake. This diagnosis was also consistent with the thinner cloud layers in the warm conveyor belt of the approaching system.
The zipper pattern in the gravity waves was caused by a slight convergence in the system relative winds with the point of the zipper pointing to the convergence line and slightly strong winds. The reverse is also true when the zipper is pointing upwind or upstream.
The setting sun was illuminating higher and more distant cirrostratus along the horizon. The setting sun was reflected in the open water of Jim Day Rapids. The snow on the ice of Singleton Lake was not nearly as good a mirror as the still water.
These are the kind of thoughts you can have when you have time to sit and reflect, so to speak, on the stories that the clouds tell. The bottom line was that Singleton Lake was going to get into the warm sector of the approaching storm. A bit of a thaw was on the way. Meanwhile, northeastern Ontario would receive the brunt of the storm with freezing rain, snow and otherwise wintry weather. The cold front would come through in a day or two and bring winter back to Singleton - as it should be.
Note that the bands of cirrostratus convert to cirrocumulus on the opposite side of the deformation zone. It is a different air mass with different characteristics on the other side of the deformation zone. The drier air was more unstable. Note also that in the atmosphere everything happens in waves at regular intervals. The meteorological processes are more of a ballet than a battle with everything in perfect balance.
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May 10th, 2016
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Comments (1)
Karen Cahoon Bauer
Unusual style and great composition! Congrats!
Phil Chadwick replied:
Thank you... I typically paint alone and I think that is what it takes to be different:>) although I certainly admire the work of many artists.