Talk:2915: Eclipse Clouds
I suspect Friday's and next Monday's comics will also be about the eclipse. We should be proactive and create a category for them. Barmar (talk) 17:12, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Might explain why there was no time to fit in a decent AF comic. (And this one definitely reminds me of '99!) 172.69.43.225 17:31, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Nephele (νεφέλη) is Greek for cloud. 172.71.123.81 17:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)Ben
- I'm still trying to find a good way to word it, for those not already aware. (There are a number of related words, c.f. germanic "nebel", "nebulous" or of course "nephelococcygia"). 172.69.43.225 17:31, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
I thought the joke in the title text is that a combined solar-lunar-nephelogical eclipse is impossible, not just "rare". You can't have a solar and lunar eclipse at the same time. Either of them can be nephelogical, though. Barmar (talk) 17:16, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Triple-conjunctions (plus the 'viewpoint', to make it a four-body syzygy) are a thing, though. A rare thing. And not to be confused with the standard meaning of triple conjunction, but I'm not sure what else to call it (when not just a sequence across time). 172.69.43.225 17:31, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- no the clouds are occluding the moon and the moon is occluding the sun so it is a lunar eclipse. Not a nephelogical eclipse though because the clouds aren’t occluded
- They are if you close your eyes.172.69.43.242 08:28, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
We dont already have a catagory for eclipses?? I'd have thought someone would have made one last eclipse, since there was so many comics about them Apollo11 (talk) 17:24, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Someone has just been adding the (currently redlinked) Category:Solar eclipses. Which is admirable, but perhaps better to have established the actual Category first. (I would have suggested "Eclipses" be created. Or at least that as a super-category for the separate Solar and Lunar cats, plus any further eclipses that individually might be mentioned.) 172.70.90.190 17:41, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- I created the category page. I wasn't sure what should go on it, so other people could review it guess who (if you want to | what i have done) 23:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Oddly enough, clouds tend to disappear during eclipses. Strange, but true. 172.70.39.72 20:03, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Maybe they're there, but you can't see them because it's dark :) Barmar (talk) 00:55, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Clouds typically form because warm air rises, cools off in the higher layers and water vapor then condenses. During an eclipse, the Sun no longer heats the ground, temperature drops a bit, and thus the cloud forming mechanism is interrupted. This means that there will indeed be somewhat fewer/less dense clouds during an eclipse. It is definitely not enough to get rid of all possible clouds, but I have seen a lightly overcast sky clear up when the totality approached. 172.71.182.142 06:41, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- I've seen lightly overcast skies clear up when there wasn't an eclipse, though - how do you explain that?172.70.162.38 08:31, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Clouds typically form because warm air rises, cools off in the higher layers and water vapor then condenses. During an eclipse, the Sun no longer heats the ground, temperature drops a bit, and thus the cloud forming mechanism is interrupted. This means that there will indeed be somewhat fewer/less dense clouds during an eclipse. It is definitely not enough to get rid of all possible clouds, but I have seen a lightly overcast sky clear up when the totality approached. 172.71.182.142 06:41, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
