At about noon the sky overhead was mostly cirrostratus and cirrus, with a few wisps of cumulus scudding by, but a bank of cumulus was building up to the south-west, and heading easterly.
The panorama is made from several photos stitched together with Autostitch. Click on the image to see a large version.
A hole in the altocumulus cut by falling ice crystals (precipitation) from a higher cloud.
An altocumulus day. The stripy, billowy bits are known as a "mackerel sky", due to the resemblance to fish scales.
The highest (top left) is altocumulus. In the middle, the diagonal edge of a sheet of stratocumulus. Below that, a wisp of scudding cumulus. The cables just happened to get in the way, but made an interesting pattern.
Two examples of light pollution, at about 6 pm-ish. The first is an orange glow in the sky caused by sodium street lighting in Ipswich reflected off low level cloud. The second is a bright light to the rear of a house just across the field, which is on most evenings.
This morning there were lots of isolated scraps of cumulus scudding across the sky in a north-easterly direction. Within a few hours the wind had dropped.
I ventured no further than the front door today, where I came across this drop of water on the Virginia creeper.
It was nothing but stratocumulus overhead all day, but when I drove into town this afternoon I saw a break in the clouds with some lovely crepuscular rays. I didn't take the camera - very annoying.
Stratus overhead. These cumulus (cumuli?) are about ten miles away, taken with the zoom lens.
In the morning there were lots of contrails but as the day warmed up they soon evaporated, like this one. It was only when I looked closer at the shot that I noticed the moon is in the picture, though it's very faint. Follow the line of the contrail to the left and it's just over half-way up the photo.
First thing this morning, stratocumulus overhead. Convection clouds separated by clear spaces. Later the cumulus built up, and then went again.
Two photos joined together and extensively photoshopped. Click on the picture to see it full size. It could be improved but I've already spent far too much time messing about with cloud pictures today.
After I've taken the previous photos and turned towards home I noticed these cumulonimbus towers growing to the north west. Ten minutes later they'd joined into one massive black cloud but I couldn't get a clear shot from close to home. A few people got wet, I reckon.
There's so much variety in cirrus clouds - streaks, sheets, curls, hooks, waves, and random patterns. These were lit by a low sun in mid-afternoon.
It was chilly at ground level, but between 16,500 and 45,000 feet it was even chillier. In the morning a few isolated patches of cirrus floated about, but this is a larger area formed of two types of cirrus: at the top of the picture, streaky cirrostratus, a milky veil at about 30,000 feet; at the bottom of the picture, the bobbly appearance of cirrocumulus, which is higher.
At sunset, there was a layer of altocumulus overhead, larger bobbles than the cirrocumulus, at a lower altitude.
The cirrus streak is being swept along by the jet stream - high speed winds at about 30,000 feet.
Several types of cumulus. Three photos, stitched together - lost clarity in the process.
Stratocumulus over Hadleigh (Suffolk) this afternoon. No different from here, except for the trees.
A description used by Cloudman John A Day to describe this sort of sky. This is looking east. I could see the bottom of some interesting cumulus in the distance, looking west, but this is all I had overhead most of the day.
This was taken as the sun was setting. The cirrus cloud formed that odd shape as it precipitated - the ice crystals started to fall but were swept along by high winds at a lower altitude.
Fog is just ground level stratus. This was first thing this morning. It soon cleared.
