Am looking due north out my 24th floor window. I currently count 12 "strips" in varying stages of "dispersion." The dispersing strips look exactly like the "clouds" around the vertical "ribbon" strip shown in the images above. The as yet undispersed strips have well-defined edges and ends, are oriented parallel to the surface, and are all about the same length.

These "strips" have become much more common over this area since the end of January. Last week there were two full days of these strips, so bizarre and chaotic, I don't know how anyone could have missed them. The sky looked like a half-done Jackson Pollack painting. It was either "strip city" or total cloying overcast here from Monday through Friday of last week - there was very little in between.

On Thursday, 2/15, an early morning summary of the last month's weather for this area included the following comment, quoted here verbatim: "Precipitation has been half the normal amount for this time of year even though we've had a lot of cloudiness."

Looking due north out my 24th floor window. In an otherwise currently clear sky, I count at least 15 "strips" in varying stages of "dispersion" and all at about the same altitude in a kind of serial progression from my west to the north directly in front of me. These strips are all pretty much equal in length. Five of them look exactly like the vertically-oriented "ribbon" shown in the photographs above. Three of these five are oriented parallel to the surface and the remaining two are oriented almost perpendicular to the surface.

The most fully-dispersed of these 15 strips are already beginning to form a wide band of "cloud" across the horizon to the north that will probably continue building itself up to eventually cover the sky, just as it did yesterday, and well within a couple of hours, I might add. I do not see any aircraft actively leaving these "strips", just as I did not see any aircraft leaving them yesterday. These strips appear to be simply "materializing" out of thin air.

I have photographed these as I did yesterday.

7:31am - add three more fresh "strips" to the west, at the same altitude as the others.