No this isn't a shitpost
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_(cloud)

it's just the result of a another one of my famous 10-hour Wikipedia binges.

On Friday, while thousands of school students were taking to the streets to call for radical action to fight global warming, I went to a lecture by Bjorn Stevens from the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, who is widely regarded as a world leading expert on clouds. This was a physics talk, mostly about the way clouds interact with radiation, the role they play in transporting water and energy in the atmosphere, and how to include them in climate models to improve the accuracy and

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I am currently working on a new story, which stars Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle. This is set in the Cloudsdale weather factory, and will include a healthy dose of atmospherics physics. I had hoped to finish it this week, but it is going to take a bit longer. As often happens, when you start writing, you find some of the minor background details that needs more thought…

Today’s topic to dive into is cloud classification.

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New story out today—yes I can still write stories! Please take a look at Once in a Rainbow Moon, written following last week’s lunar eclipse. Here are the notes on the science in this one.

EOnce in a Rainbow Moon

• MLP: FiM
• Slice of Life

One night in the crystal empire, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash decide to engineer a blue moon.

• Twilight
• Rainbow Dash
• Celestia
• Luna
• Flurry Heart

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New story out now. Check it out here:

EPolar Vortex

• MLP: FiM
• Slice of Life

Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle seek to track down the causes of extreme cold weather at the Cloudsdale Weather Factory.

• Twilight
• Rainbow Dash

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I started writing this two months ago, when, as residents of some parts of the Northern Hemisphere may recall, it was rather chilly. This saw a return of headlines about the Polar Vortex and a resulting spectrum of science stories, and a twitterstorm of science communicators trying to both correct misconceptions and cash in on the interest in a science topic.

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