Observor Comments

[BAXTERCA2]

Thanks for heads up on the meteor shower Ryan K ~
I'll get my blanket and bucket o' wishes ready...just need a clear sky and the right location now....

[BAXTERCA2]

Yet another purrfect Observer Comments tonight....well done, well done

[Snow Miser]

Yes Marty, purr-fect comments today! Glad you are making an apurr-ance for all those purr-sistent tourists who purr-sue you and try to pet you and make me purr-form. You are the summit mascot after all. And your fans adore you. >^..^<

[KathyC]

I Love Marty!!

[Anna LeBlanc]

I Love Marty!!

What a great little guy Marty is!!!!

__________
Anna

[Neil]

With respect to today's comment about clouds/fog:

Not sure I really agree that there is some fundamental difference between fog and cloud. Furthermore I don't really follow what the argument is for there being a difference. Seems like the comment suggests that the forcing for the microphysical processes that generate hydrometeors (e.g. cloud droplets), must come from the surface? But again I don't really follow that...
To me that just makes it a boundary layer cloud. After all the forcing for fair weather cumulus arises as thermals from the surface...
Why is it not sufficient to simply say that a cloud occurring at the surface is called fog? Which is after all an arbitrary and semantic distinction. Is there truly something special about fog?

Discuss.

[sdways01]

With respect to today's comment about clouds/fog:

Not sure I really agree that there is some fundamental difference between fog and cloud. Furthermore I don't really follow what the argument is for there being a difference. Seems like the comment suggests that the forcing for the microphysical processes that generate hydrometeors (e.g. cloud droplets), must come from the surface? But again I don't really follow that...
To me that just makes it a boundary layer cloud. After all the forcing for fair weather cumulus arises as thermals from the surface...
Why is it not sufficient to simply say that a cloud occurring at the surface is called fog? Which is after all an arbitrary and semantic distinction. Is there truly something special about fog?

Discuss.

I get your point that fog is basically a low cloud and that is more or less how I have looked at it for years. I think the comment was more about teaching you the specifics about what fog actually is, the different forms of it, and how it comes to be made (not just a cloud that that blew down to a lower level).

[BAXTERCA2]

Hi RK
Nice contrast photo "winter weather on the higher summits and fall weather in the valleys"...
I also like how you smoothly referenced the KR 5 Stages...I think I went through all 5 today myself

[BAXTERCA2]

Nice set of photo's RK in your 12/25/11 and 12/26/11 comments.

12/25 ~ love the summit sign and summit cairn
12/26 ~ West is always my favorite view

[Charlie]

Scot very good year for the OBS and thanks for taking us along
It was a very good ride and lets hope the ride gets better in 2012