Mare's Tails
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Mare's Tails
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Cirrus in the form of mare's tails can actually be pretty revealing. The stretched out bands of cirrus are parallel to the wind through the rather shallow depth of the ice crystals. As these elongated bands approach the deformation zone east of the upper ridge, the ice crystals fan out and form the tail of the horse. The tail near the rump of the horse is stretched along a typically northwest to southeast orientation as winds are typically northwesterly ahead of a typical upper ridge. The fanning out of the ice crystals is at an angle to the upper winds. The upstream end of the deformation zone wraps around the anticyclonic circulation within the upper ridge. The downstream end of the deformation zone wraps cyclonically around the retreating low. The deformation zone is not really obvious as there is just not enough moisture to make it stand out. It is there never the less and I almost painted in a double headed green arrow which is the symbol for the deformation zone but it would have messed up the composition!
I painted this to practice the handling of cirrus clouds and to have fun. The meteorological side of the sky can be fun as well. The bottom line for the forecast was that it was going to remain dry and cool today but tomorrow the weather would shift to hot and humid with southerly winds and an increasing probability of showers and thunderstorms. Distinctive cloud forms must be associated with equally distinctive processes in the atmosphere.
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September 12th, 2016
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