Cloud of the Week: a cirrus fibratus front at dusk

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt's Cloud of the Week, folks, a sacred tradition, and this is the very first one, so I want everybody in a good seat.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThank you, Chip. Cloud number three. Aye, I know it's the first one, but I count the ones I've privately named.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThis is a cirrus fibratus front at dusk, over Austnesfjorden in Lofoten, Norway, photographed in April twenty fifteen.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's stunning. Those long wispy streaks, glowing over the water.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHer name is Philippa Marguerite Hollingworth. Fibratus means fibrous, thin and hairlike, and so were the letters Philippa wrote me, which stopped in twenty fifteen.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBrock, that's the best cloud backstory I have ever heard, and I've been to the Corn Palace.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCan I ask something sensible? How do you know it's a Philippa and not, say, just a cloud?

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistBecause she drifted in from the west at dusk, wouldn't stay, and left the whole sky looking guilty.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI read her my best poem on a ferry once. The ferry left on time, and so did she.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOkay. That's a lot of closure for a cloud.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI'd like to suggest we all be Philippa's friend.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistChat, send me names for next Friday's cloud. Until then, that's the forecast from Philippa Marguerite Hollingworth, and she knows exactly what she did.