CloudLand: Timelapse Marine Layer over San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valley 720p HD

Most anyone who has taken off or landed at LAX on an overcast day has probably experienced a scene like this: a sea of clouds covering what was once solid earth! This show features time lapse footage shot from the top of a local Santa Clarita mountain, overlooking both the Santa Clarita and San Fernando Valleys, from about 4020 feet above sea level. On days after the Pacific Ocean "Marine Layer" moves inland overnight, the morning sky can look gray and overcast when seen from the valley floor, and it's not apparent how high or thick the clouds are. When seen from above, from an aircraft or mountaintop, the clouds look like a thick, solid fog and appear to go all the way to the ground.

In reality, the cloud layer can vary greatly, in this case being only about 250 feet thick, hovering above the ground between about 3000 and 3250 foot elevations. If one can get above the cloud layer, the sky is bright and sunny! As the air heats up after sunrise, this cloud layer "burns-off" (evaporates) back into water vapor, leaving a hazy sunshine for the rest of the day.

The time lapse photography shows the interesting way in which the air moves - looking much like turbulent water, flowing around and sometimes over terrestrial object, like mountains and buildings.

The music is "Oberion Extension" from the "Silicon Landscape" CD by Technician (yours truly). Full artist discography, MP3 downloads and CDs are available at the Technician website: HTTP://technician.jcmdi.com

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[allansgranddayout]

Beautiful footage

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for visiting! :-)

[morningdew00]

beautiful... I like your vids, they're really neat. :)

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for the nice comment! I'm happy you're enjoying my video and music creations! :-)

[jcmegabyte]

I shoot/render pretty-much all my videos at the full 30fps rate for soothness - I'm glad you enjoyed! Thanks for visiting and the kind words :-)

[jcmegabyte]

The pollution (mostly particulates - dust, etc.) can be from a lot sources... A lot of dust gets sirred up and carried out to sea at times here, and it's said that even air pollution from China makes it all the way over here to California. Remember when Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines? Even the ash particle pollution from that event gave us amazing sunsets for over a year... Amazing planet earth! :-)

[jcmegabyte]

It's ironic that many of our nice sunsets are partially the result of all the particulates and gases (otherwise known as smog and pollution!) in the air here! XD

[jcmegabyte]

I'm glad you enjoyed the show! Thanks so much for watching :-)

[SpiritOfTheRainbow]

@SlaveZero1234 I know what you mean!

[SpiritOfTheRainbow]

Absolutely gorgeous - thanks!