Clouds

It’s the Alexandrine Dark Gap, I seem to recall. The bright coloured bits have to come from somewhere, don’t they? Where they are diverted by the lensing effect of the rain, the usual random scattering of reflections is reduced. I think I need a cup of tea.

Out of interest - what's the location?

It's the Thames Path by the Crossness pumping station.

It has probably something to do with the sun being directly behind me.

Wow. I'm familiar with the area. Looks much wider than the Thames.

probably something to do with the sun being directly behind me.

Fun rainbow fact alert!

They always appear in the sky directly opposite the sun, from your perspective.

So if you are in sunny and rainy conditions, that feel as though a rainbow is likely, turn your back to the sun to look out for one.

Was quite taken aback by this overhanging cloud the other night, so beautiful. Very difficult to get in focus for some reason, wonderful light.

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Top notch ute parking.

Will it rain, won’t it rain?
A very rare sunny spell in the wettest winter I’ve experienced.
Rain was, as it turned out, only two minutes behind the camera.

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Sunday night moon & cloud

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Beautiful

Perhaps air being pushed upwards by an advancing front? Seen from my desk the other day.

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And fluffy stuff with a moon

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Looks like lenticularis which is formed by a moist airstream following over raised ground/hills/mountains. (Could also be a pileus cloud but they tend to form above cumulus clouds but that doesn't look a cumulus clouds in the bottom of you picture).

What’s going on here? Looks like wind around Cadair Idris whipping thin cloud formations, but the layers higher up are very unusual. From my home in north Wales.

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Mammatus is happening by looks of it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud

That looks spot on. Thank you! Was beautiful to see.

Yeah my first sighting was in the hills around Bath, it is a mesmerising cloud type.

P.s you live in a lovely part of the world, I get over to Tywyn every year for Race the Train, the surrounding hills are beautiful.

Wonderful, could be part of a Turner seascape. Have you got a high res image i could print?

Thanks. I think that's the best Ive got - I can email you the pics as saved incase the forum compresses them? DM if so. It was high zoom on a galaxy S10 though so I think will always be grainy.

^ Dramatic!

Sahara Sand and Föhn ten year event.

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