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TIL cirrus clouds can stretch 6 miles thick, saw it on a NOAA page and now my sunset pics make sense
I was messing around on the NOAA cloud chart site during lunch on Tuesday and found out cirrus clouds usually sit between 20,000 and 40,000 feet up, but some can stack almost 6 miles deep. That number knocked me sideways for a second. I've been snapping sky pics off my back porch in Boise for about 8 months and I kept getting these thin wispy streaks that never looked like the puffy stuff everyone posts. Now I get why they read almost flat from the ground even when they're a huge chunk of ice crystals up there. I went back through my camera roll and found 4 shots from a single evening in March where the whole west side of the sky was covered in them and I just thought it was haze. So my question for you folks who shoot a lot, what do you actually use to tell thin cirrus apart from leftover contrail spread? I keep second guessing myself on the last batch and I'd rather not post junk.
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