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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • There are two main smoke plumes, which look gray, translucent, and continuous. The fluffy, white splotches are just clouds (except in the areas where they overlap the smoke plumes, where they might be pyrocumulonimbus clouds, for all I know).

    It looks more like just one big fire (with several fronts) to me. It’s that big splotchy black area under and around my “smoke plumes” label.



  • Just because the clouds are (almost) entirely over land and not the water doesn’t necessarily mean they aren’t clouds. I’m not a meteorologist so I can’t explain why, but I’m aware that it’s pretty normal for the cloud cover over the land and the sea to be different.

    (Also, you can tell because smoke plumes definitely wouldn’t be coming from the bay or its inlet, and they didn’t blow there from the land to the east because as the real plumes show, the wind is blowing eastward.)











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    2 months ago

    Makes sense; there wouldn’t have been any flowers or tetrapods for them to suck on yet.


    Edit: @KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works deleted his comment, but he was at least half-right. Amphibians (tetrapods) had indeed started to show up in the Carboniferous. That said, the Wiki page I read before commenting said that mosquitos feed from mammals and reptiles but didn’t mention amphibians. I think it’s not that I was wrong about them having nothing to eat, but that I was wrong about overgeneralizing to say “tetrapods.”

    Also, the ancestors of flowering plants did indeed diverge from their common ancestor with gymnosperms during the Carboniferous, although flowering plants didn’t become dominant until the Cretaceous.