State of the Game

Once we had supercell mesocyclones come up from S.France and I was enjoying a coffee on the balcony and I was checking off the cloud structures and types, only to look up and almost see a funnel start spinning up. Where I live we get very cool clouds.
The trick to spotting twisters, as in "when to worry and when not to", is the color. Once the sky takes on a color that doesn't exist, so much so that nobody has yet managed to describe it adequately but once you see it you know that you're seeing it, you head for cover. Or not. If it doesn't hit you it won't matter since the damaged is extremely localized (as in one side of the street gone, the other side untouched), and if it DOES hit you, you're dead, so why worry?

But that color...
 
One fav I saw that day was Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds.

Another time my father in law took this Mamatus formation out his kitchen window. The colour is real and is not touched:

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I honestly thought stuff was going down at that point. It was like a horror film.
 
Almost certainly!

On the weather front, the last few days have been pretty decent. Mid nineties or, as you folk would say it, (not again.... calculator, where are you?) hmmm... squawk, hop up and down... 35C or so?

So at least I could take my coat off again.
I had a look and I could most certainly create a fitting word but surprisingly, no, we don't have a word for that.

On the other hand German is like a box of Legos, you can create words for everything 🤷‍♀️
 
One fav I saw that day was Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds.

Another time my father in law took this Mamatus formation out his kitchen window. The colour is real and is not touched:

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Considers reposting picture on Odyssey-broke-my-Horizons thread to prove that planetary generation is broken and unrealistic, and that real planets are not grey. Wonders if new thread on atmospheric-planets-when isn't also warranted, as would be another on how unrealistic Odyssey buildings are compared to those on display here.
 
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