The book of the sky; a résumé of personal experience and observation (1922)
Luckiesh, Matthew, b. 1883 · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company · leaf 110
ly in shadow, diffusedlight, and direct sunlight, these wind-blown frag-ments appear like moving opals. To the east arebrighter fracto-cumulus clouds like tufts of wooltorn by the winds. Far above them is a billowedlayer with patches of deep blue sky showing inthe interstices. As the fracto-cumulus… … Z MINGLED MOODS 77 whole sky. Above all these, streaks of cirrus orcirro-stratus clouds are visible here and there.The movements of these various clouds at differ-ent velocities and in several directions combinedwith their ever-changing tints and brightnessesgive to the sky the appearance of a huge…
Atmosphere, Upper · Clouds · Aeronautics
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