Clouds

I'm in Norwich. I live on the (very slightly) hilly part so you get good cloud views. Some of my better ones coming up...

...and finally, Needham Lakes on the Dunwich Dynamo 2015 edition...

These are awesome! One up there looks a bit like a fallstreak hole?

On second thoughts maybe not? My phone screen is all busted up so hard to see without looking at a computer

Here's one more. Virga, a shaft of precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground

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Yes, I think a fallstreak hole. I tweeted the Cloud Appreciation Society with it an dteh general consensus was that as well.

Nice, jealous! Not seen one of those yet

the Cloud Appreciation Society

That's my evening sorted then
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Currently thermally inverting at the beach

(Not technically clouds but atmospheric phenomena I suppose. Excuse the crap phone pictures.)

More of my fave clods. First one was over the Mojave desert, others are UK. Hole punch was Oxfordshire, mammatus was Uxbridge. I have a Norfolk roll cloud somewhere.

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Here is Norfolk. It raced across the fields to us at Holkham and dumped a lot of rain in a very short period.

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Nice work on all of these! Again you've seen nearly everything that I haven't

My family have got used to me wandering around looking at the sky the whole time. Every now and then they are delighted by the things I point out. Usually they just laugh or tut when I trip on twigs, tread in dog shit or fall off kerbs.

My family have got used to me wandering around looking at the sky the whole time

Ah that's all it takes, isn't it? People are always amazed by the stuff you spot but it's just a case of looking up instead of at the ground :)

Notice you've got Mars in your little picture, it's even more true of the night sky!

What planet or moon is that in your avatar?

It's Pluto from the New Horizons mission :)

Boring old cumulus (?) but it casts some nice shadows on the Highlands.

Noctilucents at Gravesend. I was on an overnight bike ride to Whitstable at the time, hence rubbish phone pic.

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Nice, guess you didn't get time to sit and watch them? They're ethereal

Not much time - I did look out for an opportunity to mark a junction for other riders, but it started getting light before I had a chance.

A few from me:

This is an interesting one, lit from below by the setting sun