Has anybody else noticed how fake the skies look nowadays?

I have noticed a lot of coton-like small clouds scattered between larger normal clouds.

a reply to: freedom7

My dear mother says that the clouds look different to her nowadays, but she is 83 and has Alzheimer's Disease, so I suppose that doesn't count for much.

Double post; see below

originally posted by: FlyingFox
During the partial eclipse, everything was grey and lit from the side. At 41 deg north, 76 deg west

I didn't look at the sun at all, but it was really spooky outside.

I think we are almost neighbors. My home is a little north of that position. I don't like to give out personal info, but I live in Lackawanna County near both I-81 and I-476.

I went a bit farther south to view the eclipse (closer to Harrisburg), and the sunlight did have an odd quality to it.

As for the OP's assertion that the sky looks different, I've spent my life having an amateur interest in the sky and meteorology, and I don't see a difference between now and the past.

originally posted by: Raxoxane
In 2013,that whole winter long,the sky was very oppressive here in our region of South Africa. I could see,a very fine "mesh" covering the sky,like a hexagonal mesh. I'm not someone who cares if people think i'm a whackjob,i have had a very strange life with so many paranormal and high-strange experiences,i talk about it when appropriate. If people think i'm mad than oh well.I too have noticed that fake/counterfeit quality to the sky sometimes in recent years. It is like the sky is "dead". Whether it is day or night time,sometimes i see that quality.

You know, a few years ago I looked up at the sky and it appears pixilated almost. Strange

a reply to: freedom7

I have always enjoyed watching the sky, from childhood, but nowadays I have been seeing cloud formations I have never seen before. I really get the feeling something is just wrong with the sky but can not put my finger on what.

Looser County...

a reply to: freedom7

Looks the same as always to me.

To me, the skies have always been amazing, ever changing, sometimes even scary...but always the same sky. The weather patterns have seemingly become less predictable. Here in the UK, the wind has been a constant presence this year, even on sunny days.

I'm in Canada as well (Western Canada )Me and my girlfriend have noticed these EXACT things as well. The sky looks so damn fake these days

originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
I don't like to give out personal info, but I live in Lackawanna County near both I-81 and I-476.

Ya because we are gonna come try and find out who "Soylent Green Is People" really is in real-life

I lived in the same town for 3 decades. The skies changed. I moved 1500 miles away, the skies were how I remembered them again.

No rhyme or reason, the skies should be uglier in the city than in the middle of nowhere. The skies are blue again. Not gray or white. Obviously there are regional changes. You can see them in time lines photographs of the same annual events.

originally posted by: BigBangWasAnEcho
I lived in the same town for 3 decades. The skies changed. I moved 1500 miles away, the skies were how I remembered them again.

No rhyme or reason, the skies should be uglier in the city than in the middle of nowhere. The skies are blue again. Not gray or white. Obviously there are regional changes. You can see them in time lines photographs of the same annual events.

I wouldn't say "no rhyme or reason".

One reason could be that the old town was under a busier section of the sky, air route-wise, while the new town is under a part of the sky that has less busy air-routes.

For example, I live in an area that has four overhead air-routes that lead to and from the three New York City area airports (although I live far enough away from New York that those planes are still at a high altitude). Pluss their are three air-routes over me that lead out over the Atlantic and to "Great Circle" routes to the mid east. So I have a lot of high-altitude air traffic that is visible from my home.

However, I used to live in an area with less traffic. Granted, there is air traffic almost everywhere -- but some places have heavier air traffic than others.

The sky isn't changing, your brain's data has changed. It's supplying different information for the experience you know as the sky.

Check out his video posted by Reverbs on another thread.

It's uncanny.
Every time a thread title asks a question the answer is always no.

a reply to: Sillyolme


Yes! Questions on ATS to which the bleeding obvious answer is "No" number 40,002 .....

originally posted by: Phage
Having been a boater for my whole life and a hang glider pilot for the past 44 years, I've spent a lot of time looking at the sky. Patterns are important for both.

Not a whole lot different now than it ever was.

Maybe if your only 20 years old but I distinctly remember clouds being much higher in the sky and having majority cumulous clouds but nowadays clouds appear much lower in the atmosphere and cumulous clouds seem to be rarer. Weather patterns and cloud patterns have noticeably changed from what I remember. Where I live we don't even get distinct seasons anymore. All we get now is a springish summer and winter, and winter is really mild where in the old days we would have 2 - 3 major snow storms per year, now it barely snows and it barely goes below freezing. Theres only 2 seasons instead of 4. Connecticut's climate is becoming more like San Diego.. One would think the earth has tilted on it's axis..

a reply to: libertytoall

Maybe you mean "cirrus", not "cumulus"?

Cumulus clouds (generally those billowy, puffy ones) are the lower clouds, usually at about 5000 feet or even lower.

Altocumulus clouds are mid-level, and could be as high as about 20,000 feet.

Cirrus clouds are those wispy, sometimes streaky, clouds found at higher altitudes of 20,000 feet to about 50,000 feet.

a reply to: freedom7

My first thought was............ It's the ageing process, the brain is running downhill. But you do have a point, the sky does look a bit fake these days. Can't quite put a finger on it but it's not just the sky. People, machines, cars, water, it all looks sort of fake these days. Like the vision one gets at the cinema, but all the time, like its not quite 3D no more.

How do clouds formations varying make the sky look fake?

If a day is overcast, does that mean the sky is fake.