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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

While I have seen clouds like this (looks like blankets or pillows)

I suspect this is a generated or at the very least AI enhanced photo.

Look at the back of the car, and the lines on the road are not quite correct either. Also it chose to clone the same color car, which could or could not have happened.

Edit: After looking again with less tired eyes, the back of the car is just poorly cloned to hide the plate, probably by “hand”. Something about the road texture still feels filtered (possibly an artificial zoom mentioned below). It could be a really big lens in a nice DSLR, but now that AI has ruined my ability to trust my eyes, I hate that I can’t be sure.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All i see is that the plates on the closest car being removed

[–] antaymonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Looks like a rubber stamp tool was used to remove the plate. Nothing suggests ai to me.

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Error 451 It appears you are attempting to access this website from a country outside of the United States, therefore access cannot be granted at this time.

Jesus, even Russian propaganda sites are avaliable world wide. What even is this?

Unavailable outside US, unfortunately.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this all looks to me like the AI zoom, which is just terrible, we've sacrificed reality for ... something.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago

The fact that i don't really know, makes me angrier than just blatant AI posts. There is a higher resulution photo of it, so i assume it's real.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Why has no one in the comments explained what meteorological phenomena contribute to this?

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Good question.

https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/study-explains-science-behind-asperitas-newly-recognised-cloud

Clouds have always appeared in paintings, photographs and pictures, but images captured by amateur photographers confirmed the existence of a dramatic cloud form with a roughened, wavelike base. Citizen science has now helped experts to explain how the newly-recognised ‘wave-like’ asperitas cloud is formed.

In new research, scientists combined infrared satellite images, weather forecasts and laser cloud measurements, taken at the time the rare cloud formations were reported by members of the public, to learn about the weather conditions that create them. Their findings, published in Society's journal Weather, show for the first time that asperitas is a low level cloud made of water – not ice as previously suggested – which develops its characteristic form from atmospheric disturbances, such as weather fronts and storms.

Professor Giles Harrison, who led an international research team including scientists from the University of Reading’s Meteorology department, the Met Office and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), said: “The sky is often full of clues to weather changes, and asperitas provides distinctive visualisation of complex and turbulent air motions in the lower atmosphere.”

“Reading the sky is a key part of meteorological education, warning aviators and those outdoors of potentially hazardous weather. Asperitas is now a cloud to watch out for too.”

This newly-recognised cloud was officially named asperitas by the World Meteorological Organisation in March, following a 10-year campaign for recognition.

The researchers analysing the cloud for the new study compared sightings with available meteorological data from that time and location to investigate the weather conditions that likely gave rise to the cloud formation. They found that the asperitas formation is likely to be closely associated with atmospheric gravity waves. These are generated along weather fronts and by thunderstorms, where air masses clash and cause vertical motion. This was seen in some of the satellite images analysed by the scientists.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Because I'm not a meteorologist and have never incidentally happened to do a deep dive on obscure or rare meteorological phenomena. As I'm sure at least someone here has done.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is the Lemmy problem on display. We complain about Reddit, but it's popularity is why we have some expert chiming in everywhere. And we all love the tiny community on Lemmy, but we apparently are missing a cloudologist, or maybe just not one in the right time zone.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

That's the network effect in a nutshell.

I think mirroring some reddit communities here might attract some of those subject matter experts. The threadiverse is great, but we're missing a lot of niche communities, so it's not ideal for people with very particular special interests or career fields.

An instance with a bunch of clones of various niche subreddits, each with a repost bot to stock the most relevant content, could go a long way to making this a more viable alternative for those types of people

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Seems like a missed opportunity on your part.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

Life is full of missed opportunities if you want to think about it that way. Every moment is an expanding tree of an infinite number of missed opportunities.

I prefer not to think about it that way. I used to, and it tore me apart and rendered me incapable of ever focusing on any one thing, never able to enjoy anything, never able to relax. It was killing me slowly.

Every moment is a choice. There's a thousand things you can do, but you can only do one of them. No matter what you choose, there's 999 other things that become "missed opportunities".

On the other hand, every moment I choose not to spend doing one thing, is a moment I get to choose to spend doing something else.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The back of that vehicle is even stranger.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What is even stranger is lack of plates

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did you solve the mystery or is this one of those AI "zoom enhancements" that phones decided we all wanted?

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

My bet is that this is some image from Google street view with blurred plate. OP did AI upscaling after he edited it resulting car having messed up back.

[–] Katrisia@lemmy.today 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Late 19th century painting.

[–] mirshafie 3 points 6 days ago

Why are the telegraph poles pushed into the overgrowth, and why have the horse carriages been abandoned??

[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Saw some of these about 10 years ago. They're mesmerizing. Had to pull over to get pics and I wasn't the only one. They're trippy af.

For lovers of clouds:
Cloud Appreciation Society

NOAA site about clouds

WMO Cloud Atlas

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Not by me they aren't don't tell me what to do

[–] AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

My brain hurts.

[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Quite cool to look at the pic upside down, too.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My grandma saw these one time and cherished her photos and memory of it for years

I was lucky enough to see these a couple years ago, it was very very cool to see in person!

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never seen clouds like these. Reminded me of Starry Night at first haha.

Are they only in certain regions?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They’re pretty rare, I’ve only seen them one time, and my grandma in northern Ontario only ever saw them once in her 80+ years.

It was such an event in her town that everyone went out to the street to see. When I saw them I also went into the street to take it in, but I didn’t see anyone else enjoying it

Apparently they’re more common in the US plain states (not sure what they include)

Saw them often when I lived in Oklahoma

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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"These are recognized as Asperitas clouds."

Not by me. I recognize them as "Look, that shit is so trippy. We might all be dead" clouds.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

"Who slipped me acid and what do I owe them" clouds

[–] mirshafie 4 points 6 days ago

How about mammatus clouds AKA titty clouds?

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Makes me want to scream for some reason.

[–] MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you paint that on a canvas minus the human Infrastructure I’d Frame it.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Just you wait…

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] xylol@leminal.space 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

You haven't seen infrastructure (if you live in __________)

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