= Weird "Clouds" =

While visiting relatives in Severna Park, Maryland, I bought repair hardware the Home Depot on Mountain Road, north of the Md2 / Md100 interchange.   

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Leaving the store, I noticed a row of strange "clouds" in the WNW sky, about 14 long narrow clouds, parallel and evenly spaced.   I presumed these were a strange natural phenomena, and took a picture with my wife's screen phone.

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I returned to Oregon a week later, and resumed reading a library copy of [[ https://centerforinquiry.org/store/product/escaping-the-rabbit-hole-how-to-debunk-conspiracy-theories-using-facts-logic-and-respect-first-edition-hc/ | "Escaping the Rabbit Hole"]], 2023 by Mick West.  I started reading chapter 7 "Chemtrails", and realized that the aircraft contrails described in the text and illustrated on the first page of the chapter strongly resembled the dozen-plus "skinny clouds" that I saw.  BWI airport was to the west, which is a major hub for Southwest Airlines, with its vast fleet of nearly identical 737-800 aircraft, each seating 100 passengers and usually full.  

I presumed the Southwest aircraft fleet is automated enough that they can bring in a long line of aircraft for landing, accurately spaced 3 minutes apart.  That day, each successive aircraft landed northbound through a wide river of air (I assume) moving east (towards me), with a central stream of cold air fostering contrail formation.  When the next aircraft landed, the cold air had moved east just enough to create the spacing I later saw in the sky, successive aircraft after aircraft for perhaps forty minutes.

|| ~+ '''BUT I WAS WRONG''' +~ <<BR>> <<BR>> These are '''not''' an orderly row of precisely-timed parallel contrails!  Mick West says "... those actually look like natural clouds to me. They appear to be a patch of relatively low-altitude [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altocumulus_undulatus_cloud | altocumulus undulatus clouds ]] in marginal conditions." <<BR>>  <<BR>> Ah well.  We are never 100% correct.  At best, if we correct ourselves diligently and skeptically, we can be marginally less wrong.  If you've never been wrong, you've never been right.  || {{ https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/altocumulus-undulatus-clouds-stephen-j-krasemann.jpg | | height=400 }} ||