Clouds

Is the top one the new asperitas?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/2017/new-clouds-named-in-wmo-cloud-atlas

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It certainly is: http://kottke.org/17/03/meet-this-seasons-hot-new-clouds

Thought so. Kind of like a spikey mammatus.

Google image searching mammatus is certainly rewarding.

Ha. It is like doing a Google image search for "pompino" without safesearch on...

wow, wicked...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-42426338

That GB cloud is good.

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Crappy pic but you get the idea... Gorgeous in the flesh... QLD 4020...

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Noctilucent clouds!

I have also seen nacreous clouds and Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds (no photos though) in the past so I'm gradually ticking off all the rare ones...

phew

And relax.

Got here in the end!

Seriously? There's a cloud thread?

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Nice, I love seeing shadows like this as they flip the little switch in your brain where you realise they're actual 3D objects rather than 2D sky blobs.

Couple more from me, the photos are pretty poor but it's the clouds that are interesting :)

Turns out I did have a photo of the nacreous clouds from a couple of years ago. Bottom one is very clear gravity waves (n.b. gravitational waves are a very different thing)

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love seeing shadows like this

..yea, me as well! It's not often that you get to see it like that.
Would love to travel by plane a lot more just for being able to see clouds & the earth from above..
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Nice pictures, by the way, thanks for sharing!

Some ice crystals in high altitude clouds provided this lovely circumzenithal arc smile in the west this weekend.

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Go home rainbow, you're drunk!

@frankenbike Noctilucent, nacreous clouds and Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds...such jealousy, much envy!

I am lucky enough to have the best desk in the office which has this lovely view, which gives me a lot of opportunities for cloud spotting :)

Mammatus is still on the list, plus I'd love to see some massive US-style supercells one day

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NASA reliased new pics of our neighbours clouds, its beautiful

Ahh, handy. Mammatus is one of the few I have seen at home and is probably my favourite (it did take a few years to get it though!)
I also seem to get a lot of sundogs and halos in winter when the sun hits the right angle.

Nice! Whereabouts is this? Doesn't sound like London? Am in Edinburgh, it's just the right size for this sort of thing as there's plenty of open spaces, mountains nearby and few towering buildings, but not such a tiny place that I go mad. And we get a nice mixture of cold to hot weather, sea fog, rainy/dry, etc.