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Am I the only one who started splitting the sky into quarters to spot clouds better?
Back in 2019 I kept missing cool stuff because I'd just stare at the whole sky and my eyes would glaze over, so I started dividing it into four chunks around my head and scanning each one for about 20 seconds. My count of weird clouds worth shooting went way up after a few weeks, and honestly it felt like cheating on a test the first time I caught a lenticular stack over Mt. Hood that way. Does anyone else break the sky into sections, or do you just point and hope for the best?
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sean_barnes837h ago
Ha, that quarter trick is smart. I did something close to it when I got into storm chasing, but I split my view into three strips left to right and gave each one a slow count of ten before moving on. The big thing for me was checking the same chunk twice, once low near the horizon and once higher up, since that low band is where the shelf clouds and wall clouds like to sneak in while you're busy staring at the top. Took me a couple months of doing it before the scan became automatic, but my keeper rate went up a lot.
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