Well, I thought I might have found something that would have been helpful to this discussion, but now I'm actually
more confused.
If you look at this, you can make of it what you will.
Directly from the copyright link in the APOD caption, one gets to:
https://m.weibo.cn/u/7430235891
About 20 inches down from the top, I find the entry. It has the APOD mention, and a high resolution image that looks about the same. Still I see no ripples. The entry there concurs that the image was taken from Pu'er in Yunnan Province.
I was looking around a bit more on the 'net, to see if there was some mention of additional features that might be counted as "unusual cloud ripples" in the sky above it.
1. There was a report with a still photo at:
https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/env ... 78246.html
where it is listed as having been taken in Puning City in south China's Guangdong Province.
2. That article further references a video on twitter:
The video states it is from "Haikou city in China".
Haikou City is about 625 miles southeast of Pu'er, Yunnan, so quite far apart. Puning City, is another 445 miles northeast of Haikou.
So, three locations all over China. Are these images the same cloud? They look very similar, but I don't know. These other images do show lots of other cloud features around the pileus stack, some of which I think could be ripples!
Like I said, though, this only has me confused.
Well, I thought I might have found something that would have been helpful to this discussion, but now I'm actually [i]more[/i] confused.
If you look at this, you can make of it what you will.
Directly from the copyright link in the APOD caption, one gets to:
[url]https://m.weibo.cn/u/7430235891[/url]
About 20 inches down from the top, I find the entry. It has the APOD mention, and a high resolution image that looks about the same. Still I see no ripples. The entry there concurs that the image was taken from Pu'er in Yunnan Province.
I was looking around a bit more on the 'net, to see if there was some mention of additional features that might be counted as "unusual cloud ripples" in the sky above it.
1. There was a report with a still photo at:
[url]https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/environment/iridescent-pileus-cloud-rainbow-578246.html[/url]
where it is listed as having been taken in Puning City in south China's Guangdong Province.
2. That article further references a video on twitter:
[quote]
A spectacular Iridescent pileus cloud [url]https://pic.twitter.com/RrjO7T3H9m[/url]
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) August 26, 2022
[/quote]
The video states it is from "Haikou city in China".
Haikou City is about 625 miles southeast of Pu'er, Yunnan, so quite far apart. Puning City, is another 445 miles northeast of Haikou.
So, three locations all over China. Are these images the same cloud? They look very similar, but I don't know. These other images do show lots of other cloud features around the pileus stack, some of which I think could be ripples!
Like I said, though, this only has me confused.