Word of the Day
Auspice (n., AWE-spiss)
A sign or omen of future happenings, hopefully good ones. Birds flying south is an auspice of cold and snow. Birds trying to commit suicide by car is a bit more ambiguous.
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Link of the Day
Fallstreak Hole Cloud over Victoria, Australia
This is eerie and cool:
Although often reported as UFOs, the clouds do have a scientific explanation:
Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing but the water has not frozen yet due to the lack of ice nucleation (see supercooled water). When ice crystals do form it will set off a domino effect, due to the Bergeron process, causing the water droplets around the crystals to evaporate: this leaves a large, often circular, hole in the cloud
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