Black Clouds Over San Francisco Skyline Yesterday
As I was driving over a hilltop overlooking the San Francisco Bay yesterday around noon, I noticed black clouds blanketing the San Francisco skyline. It looked almost like black fog...as it obscured the buildings, too. The sky over the Bay was clear blue & cloudless...just the black stuff over SF. As I descended closer to sea level, the sky appeared normal again. I couldn't see any black clouds. If I hadn't been on the hilltop overlooking the Bay, I wouldn't have noticed a thing.
They weren't rain clouds...because we haven't had rain in the Bay Area in several weeks. Yesterday, and today, were warm & sunny days...no rain in sight. So what were these black clouds?
Did anyone else notice them yesterday?
Posted by: Gardening Gal


That is a flesh eating fungus
That is a flesh eating fungus growing in the atmosphere and the govt is suppressing this information. The fungus is growing at an incredible rate and will engulf the entire globe in 2 weeks. It is believed to have entered our atmosphere when a flying saucer from the planet Xenofobe flew to Las Vegas for a weekend visit. The US Air Force is currently battling the fungus by spraying it with Roundup to control its growth but officials at the pentagon say the worlds supply of roundup will run out at 3PM EST on Friday the 20th. The govt has been hiding this information by claiming that the black clouds are just a line of rain clouds that appear black because the water vapor is dense enough to block most of the sunlight so they appear black against the rest of the open sky. But that is not true, we know it is flesh eating fungus!
Quite an imagination that you have there.
I do wish you were right that the world's supply of Roundup would be gone - that and the GMO's that can be doused with it.
Dark Gray Clouds Over the SF East Bay...and the Smell of Sulfur
Update:
The dark grey clouds continue to blanket the skies of the SF East Bay. I have been smelling "eggs" (sulfur) in the air for the past two days.
Wondered if I was imagining it...so I asked a neighbor if he smelled anything in the air outside? I asked him, "Do you smell anything in the air?" (as we were standing outside). I didn't want to prejudice his opinion. He said, "Yeah, it smells like a big F**T!" (bathroom simile). Then he said, "You know, come to think about it, I've been smelling that smell all over the city for several days."
Dark grey clouds over SF East Bay
Go to this channel on youtube: man2011ism. You will see a lot of videos about this.
ttp://www.epill.com/
ttp://www.epill.com/
The "EGG" smell is hydrogen sulphide
The "EGG" smell is hydrogen sulphide and it is produced in the sewage system. Under normal atmospheric pressures hydrogen sulphide gases (heavier than air) are confined to the sewer pipes under the streets. However, when a low pressure front moves through, the hydrogen sulphide gases expand and rise up out of the sewers and then you smell them! That is Momma nature at work, nothing sinister.
The Dark "Rainclouds" Are Still Above the SF Bay
I'm still seeing the "dark" clouds that used to signify rain over the Bay Area. They have lightened slightly in color. They are no longer that black-black cloud formation that I noticed before. However, there is no rain...so they are NOT rainclouds! I don't notice a smell. They hang over San Francisco all day until afternoon winds blow them our way in the East Bay. It is as though a smoky haze blankets the sky as they pass over.
I've made a point of driving to my hilltop vantage point most mornings...hoping I will see "normal" fog over San Francisco. Although the color has lightened...it still doesn't look normal. It looks like storm clouds.
They are worrisome to say the least...
Sure they are rainclouds..
>>>However, there is no rain...so they are NOT rainclouds!
Sure they are rain clouds!!!! Think about it!!!!
What do you think rain clouds look like before they start dumping rain???
What do you "think" ( term used loosely ) that the rain clouds that end up raining on
the Sierras look like before they actually "let loose"??? Just because the clouds
don't rain on San Francisco doesn't mean that they are not rain clouds.
"What do you "think" ( term
"What do you "think" ( term used loosely "
Ya know, I hate this crap. Lay off the ad hominem dude. People come here for answers. If they don't meet your definition of intelligence, go somewhere else. Your technique is a bully tactic. - humiliation through sarcasm.
We can all do without the insults.
I'd have to disagree with you..
I'd have to disagree with you and agree with the previous poster.
Gardening Gal would have us believe that dark rainclouds are not dark rainclouds merely because it wasn't raining where and when she observed them. That's a monumentally boneheaded thing to say. It doesn't take a degree in meteorology to know that the clouds could have caused rain a short time and a short distance downwind.
Additionally, Gardening Gal isn't attempting to get information. She's attempting to peddle this lame innuendo as something nefariously sinister.
Gardening Gal put this post into the public domain of her own volition. If someone demonstrates that the post is ill-considered and Gardening Gal experiences public humiliation thereby; that is all for the good of this forum. Perhaps next time she will think before she posts or go post somewhere else. That's all for the good of the forum.
Likewise, this is a "science-based" forum, and not a banal forum of "political correctness". If the exposition of ill-considered posts offends your tender sensibilities, then don't frequent science-based forums. If you seek a forum where banal posts are left to go unchallenged, then perhaps you should see if there are any forums at the Sesame Street website.
Pretending you are someone
Pretending you are someone else is odd.
I haven't noticed "banal PC" here at all, that's why I like this forum. But I have noticed "most" of the comments are presented or argued intelligently, and don't resort to personal insults. It's the nature of the forum for the most part. Perhaps you don't fit in with the culture, so you resort to accusing me of "tender sensibilities?? I sure hope people like you don't turn this forum into the usual sort. We are here for facts and information, not personal attacks and jabs.
And you didn't read my post.
I was not agreeing or disagreeing w/ GG, who contributes a lot to this forum, but merely pointing out that mocking people is unnecessary You can present a point without demeaning the person you're having a discussion with.
Ad hominem, sarcasm, insults... I don't see it very often here, another reason I respect the BRAWN teams forum. Resorting to insults is immature and so unproductive.
You are wrong again.
You are wrong again. I'm the person that you originally disagreed with. I evidently have an ally whom you are claiming to be me without any evidence.
LOL! You're cute and
LOL! You're cute and funny.
This is a new phenomena
This is a new phenomena Gardening Gal? In other words, not normal for the area?
Have you searched online re: others questioning the same? However, it's amazing how many people seem completely oblivious to odd things that happen right over their heads. (in fairness, I was one of that number until someone alerted me)
Yes, Anonymous
Yes, Anonymous, this is a new phenomena and not normal for the area. I was born and raised in California...and I have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 40 years. As a life-long gardener, I always watch the sky. It helps me to plan out my days. If it looks like rain, I plan on working indoors. When I see low lying dark storm clouds, I check for the really ripe tomatoes in my garden and make sure that I get them picked. Otherwise, a surprise shower can result in split skins on those really ripe tomatoes. Also, if a storm is on the way, I don't water the lawn if it is on my "to do" list. I wait and see how much water falls...and then I adjust my watering. It might not be "scientific," but watching the sky has served me well for many years...that and the barometer.
The dark, dark clouds that passed overhead were low lying clouds...not at a high ceiling. They were so low that they brushed the hilltops in the East Bay. These were the types of clouds that USUALLY indicate a shower...if not a small rainstorm here...then moving east to Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada foothills. Clouds that pass over at a much higher ceiling probably do just dump on the higher parts of the Sierra Nevadas. These were low lying clouds.
I've checked online to see if anyone noticed those black-black clouds over San Francisco that I mentioned in my original posting. Nothing is mentioned, but from other postings here, several people did notice the black clouds and the black skyline.
Oh...thank you for asking!
Low lying clouds
Exactly! Terrible black clouds with the sun right there peaking through.
One more thing...
I forgot to mention that I have been keeping my eye on the Accu-Weather Radar. It shows where it it raining in the United States...even small showers. No rain has shown up on the radar for California or Nevada on the days (or the ones after) that I see these low-hanging dark "clouds" passing overhead...so they are not going to the Sierra Nevadas to dump their rain...even though that is the direction the wind is taking them.
Yes, the unusual black clouds
were the worst the night when it hailed enormous golf ball size hail on Berkeley this year. Obviously, it rained/hailed that night, but these clouds did not look normal. I grew up on the East Coast where we had big, wonderful dark storms all the time, but this looked different, the black clouds did not look like normal storm clouds, they looked, hmmm, flat, strange.
I know exactly what you are talking about, and I bet that angry poster does, too.
The reason I like your
The reason I like your posts, GG, is because you offer simple observations as a nature lover, one familiar with the rhythms of the seasons and the weather. Your long term experience with gardening and nature gives you an innocent perspective when something is"wrong".
My grandparents were farmers and very in tune also, People like that have an instinct about abnormality, even if they can't explain it.
We are foolish not to pay attention to signs of nature, regardless of the cause of an abnormality (i.e., it may not necessarily be related to radiation.... or, it may...)
Drivng from Sac to San Francisco, I saw black cloud bank
For years,I drive from Sacramento to San Francisco once a month. We see a yellowish/brownish smog/cloud bank from the ground up past the horizon and then it stops at a continuous line and then the blue sky. We usually see this in the distance as we approach Vallejo. I think, yuck, we have to breathe that. Then, in August, we were driving to S.F. again and this time the smog bank was black...very black...so black that I noticed. I thought it "might" be rain clouds but it was NOT. We do not get rain in August.
Then I read that people were see the black smog banks in so cal too. One theory is that is caused from volcanic activity plume gases from the bottom of the ocean. That seems logical.
Drivng from Sac to San Francisco, I saw black cloud bank
For years,I drive from Sacramento to San Francisco once a month. We see a yellowish/brownish smog/cloud bank from the ground up past the horizon and then it stops at a continuous line and then the blue sky. We usually see this in the distance as we approach Vallejo. I think, yuck, we have to breathe that. Then, in August, we were driving to S.F. again and this time the smog bank was black...very black...so black that I noticed. I thought it "might" be rain clouds but it was NOT. We do not get rain in August.
Then I read that people were see the black smog banks in so cal too. One theory is that is caused from volcanic activity plume gases from the bottom of the ocean. That seems logical.
"One theory is that is
"One theory is that is caused from volcanic activity plume gases from the bottom of the ocean. That seems logical."
That's very interesting! I'm going to read up on that. Thanks for sharing.
black clouds / fog seen in California
Hello Again !
I could not post when I saw this by the op, the Berkeley blog had some technical issue.
Anyway yes !
I saw the black clouds and heavy black fog roll in the day we smelled the odor in San Diego County.
I have lived here nearly 40 years never encountered that smell or black fog before. Here is what I think.
I don't think the black fog and odor are related. I smelled the odor starting around 1pm in the afternoon. I was driving about town on my errands and smelled this odor at all stops along my route. Much later in the afternoon around 5:30 pm or so I went out again to the store, and that is when this very dense, heavy low black fog creeped in from over the ocean. It was dark like rain clouds but no rain appeared and not even a drizzle fell. Earlier that day in the afternoon we had sunny and hazy weather almost smeared skies. No chemtrails were spotted, there was just this smeary sort of glare when one looked out, as if looking through an oily window.
I will say this though, both the odor and the black heavy fog came in from over the ocean. I know this as a fact because of how close I was to the shoreline, and the wind direction.
Could the smell be jetfuel ? I doubt it. Only because of the widespread area that reported the smell. The air density would have diluted the smell before it could spread to such great distances of where it was reported. And the dark fog, I sort of have my own idea that it was a "hotspot" of some pollution from Japan or China, that picked up more particles and attracted stuff to stick to it. Sort of like a black snowball collecting pollution fallout or what ever along the way. I would try to avoid this in the future. Isn't it true that certain particles of nuclear pollution stick to and are attracted to certain types of conditions like fog ??
Radioactive sulfur over California from Fukushima-documented
For all California readers, the German newspaper just recently reported that Fukushima has caused elevated radioactive sulfur over the Westcoast. could the smell be related to that?
The German newspaper is not making this up, it is actually documented, I just have to find the article that I read a while ago.
To me, it did smell like sulfur.
Great detective work and a
Great detective work and a big thank you for posting the link (it did deserve it's own thraad)
Central Coast
There were black clouds on the central coast coming in from Morro Bay yesterday afternoon (around 5 pm). Same thing. Bright sunny day. Didn't look like rain clouds or fog.
I've lived in this area more than 20 years and don't recall these types of clouds in years past. I've seen fog roll in and it's white to dark gray. Lighter inland and darker closer to the ocean. There was no light to dark gradient, just thick black, right next to blue sky and light fog. Could not find a news report about a fire.
chemtrails?
Could this be the cause of the black clouds? I know a guy who was in the Air Force. When I asked him about chemtrails, he told me that I didn't want to know everything that jets eject. He said they eject jet fuel, too.
http://aircrap.org/black-fogchemtrails-over-victoria-bc-canada/33346/
The ‘Fog’ of War: We have been seeing an increasing amount of these monolithic black poisonous aerosol ‘fog’/chemtrails here in Victoria, BC. The black poison is sprayed/comes out of white chemtrails and can be seen settling shortly or immediately after being released, but is usually sprayed/made at night when they are harder to distinguish/detect unless you are looking (hence this “Black ‘Fog’/Chemtrails: What They Spray On Us While We’re Sleeping” series).
A quick YouTube or internet search reveals the scope and scale of this deadly aerosol attack on the public worldwide.
At the end of the clip you will notice the addition of a photo taken Sept 9th, 2010 that shows five ‘fog’trails in the ocean just off of Trial Island – the event that preceded the massive black aerosol ‘fog’bank on our Sept 9th video. The ‘fog’ that originated just off the Southernmost tip of Vancouver Island, ended up being blended (HAARP) with the black chemtrails in the sky above and floating across the city after nightfall.
Another good example of these black aerosol banks is the footage I took of black ‘fog’trails floating across the harbour toward downtown at 9 am Thursday August 26th, 2010.
The footage in this video series leaves little doubt we are under attack.
There is a growing amount of metal in the sky at all times which, when blended with the synthetic ‘clouds’, turns the sky into a massive radio frequency delivery system. The fact they can stop an rfid chipped bull from charging should lend some insight to the HAARP program’s application to social control and theater warfare.
Few people even realise we are under attack, but the more they do this the greater the percentage of people who wake up each day.
I've come a long long way in
I've come a long long way in the past few years, from complete rejection of many "crazy' theories, to acknowledgement of serious *&$! going on. I do not know the why - not sure anyone does - but you have to be blind, deaf and dumb as a box of rocks not to see what's going on right over your heads. Yea, there's a lot of crackpots pointing this out, but there are also very serious educated folk like us who've been looking at, and into this.
Thanks OP for the information. I'll check it out. I live near L.A., so I'm familiar with Aircrap.org and their efforts to raise awareness. It worked with me.
Black Clouds Over SF
I attempted to post this yesterday...but was unable to do so! I wish that I had my camera with me at the time. I may drive up to the hilltop tomorrow and take another look at the SF skyline.
It looked like the whole city was engulfed in black smoke!
Black clouds/fog making its way up the California coast?
It sounds like the same type of phenomenon that was experienced in the San Diego area on Aug. 17?
The OP from this other BRAWM thread: http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/5384 - described it as the same type of "black fog" or black clouds where they live in San Diego County:
[snip]
"op here update..
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2011-08-18 03:06.
Just went to the store, tried to see the sky for clues. I see very thick black fog around my house and over the ocean it is a very heavy fog close to the ground.
I still smell the odor.
I vaguely remember smelling this yesterday while driving home, I thought to myself some car ahead of me needs a smog check up.
I am surprised it is being smelled in Las Vegas too thanks for the post....
Don't panic were gonna to the bottom of this...."
[end of snip]
Apparently, the first test of the air done by authorities in San Diego County yesterday came back inconclusive and a second test for toxins is still pending, but according to the article in the link I include below, the cause of the foul smell and black cloud may never be determined. The article states the cloud moved east, not north, so that could be why another poster said they smelled it in Las Vegas, if it was indeed the same odor in discussion...?
If it turns out this is ALSO happening in San Francisco, then perhaps the CA State Dept. of Health will step in and investigate as well?
Good luck! I'll let you know if the smell/black cloud makes it way up to Seattle. (Hope not!) :-P
Here's a San Diego KPBS.org news update from today (8/18): http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/aug/18/mystery-odor-san-diego-county-may-r...
Black Clouds Over SF
@ Seattle Mom: I don't know if there was a smell associated with the black clouds / black fog. I was inside my car, windows rolled up, air conditioner on internal circulation mode. Sure wish that I had had my camera with me though!
More great detective work,
More great detective work, Seattle Mom. I have zero confidence that the cause of these issues will be disclosed. SOP = YOYO MOFO.
Thanks :-)
Given my limited experience in online forum acronym-speak, I had to look those acronyms up. LOL ;P
Anyway, time will tell...and at least people are talking to each other about it, so I have faith that the truth will reveal itself. After all, it usually eventually does. ;-)