Sunset Snow Virga
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Sunset Snow Virga
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
There is no virga like snow virga. Wafts of ice crystals can fall from a minimal thickness of cloud. Falling at only one metre per second, it could take an hour to make the trek to the ground. If the cloud is based between eight and ten thousand feet high, as I estimated in this case, it would take about 50 minutes for the snow flakes to reach the ground. A lot of things can happen in that hour. In this situation the ice crystals were mainly sublimating back into vapour as they fell into the drier, cloud free air mass.
Sunsets are always interesting and I try to take a few minutes every day to appreciate the light show. I used a lot of paint on this smooth and very slippery surface. The reflection of the light and colours is very different from the sow covered ice as compared to the calm and open water of Jim Day Rapids .
The cloud on the horizon was the deformation zone cirrostratus announcing the approach of the next winter precipitation event.
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November 12th, 2022
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