Lunchtime Photo

14 thoughts on “Lunchtime Photo”

1. treeeetop57 December 20, 2021 – 12:41 pm at

   Smog.
2. S1AMER December 20, 2021 – 12:57 pm at

   "Twenty-six miles across the sea ..."
3. rick_jones December 20, 2021 – 1:05 pm at

   This is Catalina Island, shot during takeoff from John Wayne Airport.

   So begins another jaunt...
   1. rick_jones December 20, 2021 – 5:05 pm at

      Question becomes, is Kevin getting the flock out of Dodge in the nick of time, or helping with the spread? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-19/new-covid-numbers?_amp=true

      (Seems unlikely Orange would be hugely different from LAC in this regard)
      1. Rattus Norvegicus December 20, 2021 – 9:18 pm at

         Note the date.
         1. rick_jones December 21, 2021 – 7:11 am at

            Doh!

            - E. Litella
      2. Kevin Drum Post authorDecember 20, 2021 – 10:34 pm at

         Actually, OC has been surprisingly good. I don't know why.
4. mudwall jackson December 20, 2021 – 1:08 pm at

   remember the old saying: "red sky at noon, sailors shrug their shoulders."
   1. oldbatty December 20, 2021 – 3:42 pm at

      I thought it was “Red sky at morn, sailors take warn; red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky at noon, drunk too soon”.
5. Jerry O'Brien December 20, 2021 – 1:40 pm at

   Wildfire smoke?
6. Le Vert Galant December 20, 2021 – 3:34 pm at

   I see San Clemente Island to left.
7. dspcole December 20, 2021 – 4:56 pm at

   Maybe the first sign of the looming red state tidal wave coming in November 2022??
8. pjcamp1905 December 20, 2021 – 7:21 pm at

   Best guess (and a really rough one): Red clouds, not red sky, and looking the the nearer ones, clouds with a lot of water droplets. That suggests Mie scattering in effect, but Mie scattering does not have a strong wavelength dependence. They're all scattered about the same.

   But you're also looking at clouds close to the horizon, hence passing through a lot of atmosphere to get to you. Maybe that introduces enough Rayleigh scattering to make it tilt toward the red.

   But I am very much ready to be proven wrong here.
9. Rattus Norvegicus December 20, 2021 – 9:17 pm at

   I prefer seeing it approaching from the deck of a sailboat, but that's just me.

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