Contrails and clouds

[goodevans]

I will bring this up again but I am a real believer that contrails seed clouds,today being a perfect example.Please all look tomorrow and see what I mean

 

[bovrill]

Fairly strong easterly and north easterly winds for several days from a high pressure sitting in the right place seem to be clearing the air.

 

[Pan mixer]

Yesterday and today (earlier before we had other clouds) the sky was so blue that I took a picture.

We live under what is usually a major corridor for air travel, in the evenings an average of about 8 planes can be seen at once and sometimes up to 15.

There hadn't been any for a while before this picture was taken.

My cows are still belching at the same rate that they usually do though.

 

[Kidds]

Plenty of times planes can go by without leaving a trail. Depends on temperature and humidity

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Just looked at flightradar, a shadow of its normal self!

 

[Henarar]

Just looked at flightradar, a shadow of its normal self!

good

 

[anzani]

One factor would be the noticable efficiency in movements. The volume is now so small that nearly every flight gets strait in, no stacks,no go-arounds and simpler routes out, strait to the destination heading.Many of the flights out of Heathrow going to 'cheaper' parking elsewhere, Hurn for example.

 

[phil1966]

around 10c today sunny but with a chilly northly wind picking up becoming fresh. hopefully weekend looks warmer hopefully.

 

[Pilatus]

Just looked at flightradar, a shadow of its normal self!

Till you see how many planes are flying in the USA!!!!!!Not surprising Covid 19 is spreading like wildfire over there.

 

[Honest john]

Will the lack of contrails bring a heat wave ?
Remember the affect of 9/11 when planes stopped for just 3 days.

 

[Roger Perry]

Till you see how many planes are flying in the USA!!!!!!Not surprising Covid 19 is spreading like wildfire over there.

Cept' most have an average of 6 people or less on board.

 

[anzani]

Would be interesting to know what was being done on Sunday , by whom and for what ?
See :
www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/wkt33/#24525732
www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-bwlf/#245256a9
www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-osfl#24525baa
Perhaps just looking to see who has drilled their wheat!

 

[Bald Rick]

Lying in my bath earlier this evening and saw a plane flying .

Thought to myself “you badtards”

Although I expect a rush back to flying when this is eventually over

 

[Gong Farmer]

Will the lack of contrails bring a heat wave ?
Remember the affect of 9/11 when planes stopped for just 3 days.

There have been warnings about this, the aerosols in contrails being important, allegedly, in deflecting sunlight and keeping the planet cool.

 

[PSQ]

Would be interesting to know what was being done on Sunday , by whom and for what ?
See :
www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/wkt33/#24525732
www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-bwlf/#245256a9
www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-osfl#24525baa
Perhaps just looking to see who has drilled their wheat!

Aerial survey, probably for the Environment Agency or Ordnance Survey.

 

[Lincs Lass]

First one for must be a week

 

[Henarar]

First one for must be a week

Did you have the gun handy ?

 

[Macsky]

I will bring this up again but I am a real believer that contrails seed clouds,today being a perfect example.Please all look tomorrow and see what I mean

Totally agree with this, although sometimes they don’t seem to have an effect, other times I’ve seen a lovely clear morning clouded over with clouds definitely seeming to grow out of the contrails, really annoying. If you watch the trails, they just seem to grow and grow and join up into a general haze, with no natural looking clouds about, spoiling a clear day, which isn’t a common thing in these parts.

We’ve only really had a couple of clear days since the planes stopped, and to me at least the sky has been as clear as I’ve seen it.

 

[Mr Mackay]

Lying in my bath earlier this evening and saw a plane flying .

Thought to myself “you badtards”

Although I expect a rush back to flying when this is eventually over

It will be like a Scamble scene from The Battle of Britain as the pilots rush to the lines of planes and fly out one after another

 

[Gong Farmer]

Totally agree with this, although sometimes they don’t seem to have an effect, other times I’ve seen a lovely clear morning clouded over with clouds definitely seeming to grow out of the contrails, really annoying. If you watch the trails, they just seem to grow and grow and join up into a general haze, with no natural looking clouds about, spoiling a clear day, which isn’t a common thing in these parts.

We’ve only really had a couple of clear days since the planes stopped, and to me at least the sky has been as clear as I’ve seen it.

Yes, contrails can become clouds though meteorologists refuse to accept this.