A satellite picture for the record books -

[beoumont]

This BD curve shot of Irene came together as she was being born. What do you think Mother Nature is telling us here? Weird for sure.

[HURAKAN]

could you explain more? I don't see anything more than a developing tropical cyclone

[Nightwatch]

two eyes... a nose... and a wide black mouth...which will swallow the florida keys

[HURAKAN]

The human brain is set up to recognize patterns and if it can't recognize what it's, it will associate it to something that it knows. There is nothing there more than clouds.

[BigB0882]

This human brain can't even recognize a face in that mess. I am on some funky cold medicine so maybe that could be my excuse? lol

[gigabite]

08/23/2011 11:45....................08/23/2011 12:00........................08/23/2011 12:15

U.S. Naval Observatory
Astronomical Applications Department


Sun and Moon Data for One Day
The following information is provided for %28no Name Given) (longitude W71.2, latitude N20.7):

Tuesday
23 August 2011 Universal Time

SUN
Begin civil twilight 10:04
Sunrise 10:26
Sun transit 16:47
Sunset 23:08
End civil twilight 23:31

MOON
Moonset 17:45 on preceding day
Moonrise 04:55
Moon transit 11:47 ************************************
Moonset 18:38
Moonrise 05:49 on following day

Phase of the Moon on 23 August: waning crescent with 35% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.

Last quarter Moon on 21 August 2011 at 21:55 Universal Time.

[beoumont]

The few responses to that image here on a scientifically oriented forum/blog are similar in the % of friends/relatives I also sent that picture to.

50% saw some form of skull, mummy, or distorted face in that blob of convection to the right of Irene"s main CDO and core. The rest saw a variety of danger, other things, or nothing at all.

Just like when people look at a specific cloud in the sky. Some see a butterfly, some see a pretty blonde, some see a horse, and some see, profoundly, a cloud.

Like the 1982 pic. I posted earlier, where most people who were adults in that era saw Richard Nixon's profile in this satellite shot. When I pulled it off the UPI fax machine at The Weather Channel in 1982, the on camera meteorologist Rick Williams proceeded to present it on TV with his impression of Nixon, and declared: "I have my eyes of Cuba."



Maybe the shot I posted to start this thread could be used as a weather enthusiast's Rorschach Test; possibly called a Devorak Test.

That crazy-man Albert Einstein said: "“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

[gulf701]

If you like syfi, in the center white zone is a silhouette of Godzilla. Seriously, my prayers go out to the Bahamas as they have been hammered by Irene. Also praying the East Coast takes her seriously and as another poster stated, the US economy is not in the best shape to deal with the impacts from Irene or other disasters.

[randge]

Cognitive scientists call it pareidolia, which Wiki defines as "a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant."

It's what causes folks to see faces in clouds and tea cups and pieces of toast. It is the result of the incredibly powerful pattern seeking processes in our brains. Those processes sometimes run riot.

I didn't see your hurrakan monster last night, but my sleepy brain sees it this morning.

[Florida1118]

I still dont get it.

[DESTRUCTION5]

Looks like a embryo that will be later be called Snoopy..