{"id":5627,"date":"2013-12-19T06:44:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2013-12-27T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T10:32:04","slug":"smoked-mackerel-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/19\/smoked-mackerel-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoked Mackerel Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131219-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5590\" alt=\"20131219 012\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131219-012-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131219-012-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131219-012.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Smoke from bushfires has often given us some interesting sunsets, but this time, the smoke added a salmon tinge to the mackerel sky just after 6:30am. \u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Altocumulus_mackerel_sky\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0: The occurrence of\u00a0a mackerel sky\u00a0\u00a0is an indicator of moisture and instability at intermediate levels, with\u00a0the most common reason an old, disintegrating frontal system. \u00a0The cloud was probably originally altostratus and has been broken up into altocumulus as the weather front disintegrates (usually as a result of encountering an area of high atmospheric pressure). \u00a0Little, if any rain most often follows a mackerel sky. \u00a0The nautical weather rhyme, &#8220;<a title=\"Cirrus clouds\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cirrus_clouds\">Mare&#8217;s tails<\/a>\u00a0and mackerel scales \/ Make tall ships carry low sails.&#8221; as it usually\u00a0meant a storm would be approaching and the sails should be lowered to protect from the accompanying high winds.<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/weather.about.com\/od\/weatherfolklore\/qt\/marestails.htm\" target=\"_blank\">website <\/a>asks: \u00a0<b>Are Mackerel Scales and Mare&#8217;s Tails Good Predictors of Approaching Storms?\u00a0<\/b>In short, yes. The cloud systems that develop prior to a storm will often appear clumpy and wispy like a fish scale or horse tail!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from bushfires has often given us some interesting sunsets, but this time, the smoke added a salmon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131219-012.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5628,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions\/5628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}