Cirrocumulus lacunosus

Dark pink sky at dusk

A strange pink tinge to the stratocumulus at dusk. The foreground has been lit by flash.

Moon in the morning

When I opened the curtains this morning there were clouds like surf on a beach. By the time I'd found a camera, this was all that was left.

Moonrise at sunset

Apologies

I've been distracted, but will start posting more cloud pictures soon.

Light and blue

Two kinds of cumulus

In the distance, cumulus congestus. In the foreground (top of the picture), cumulus humilis.

High winds

Winds at high altitudes have whipped the cirrus this way and that.

Blown away

The cap on top of this cumulus is being blown away.

Pom pom

A strange pom pom cloud in the middle of this picture.

Lines

A layer of altocumulus radiatus with some contrails above cumulus humilis, all blown into lines by the wind.

Lively sky

Rapidly changing sky.

High ice

A layer of grainy cirrocumulus (formed of ice crystals) above scattered cumulus humilis.

Hooked cirrus

Late morning

Sign of an advancing depression

Ripples of cirrus fibratus at a high altitude.

Blobby cloud

Heard it was windy today but as I spent most of it indoors, can't confirm that.

Heap

A few developing cells escaped a layer of stratocumulus.

Cumulus congestus

Bright sunny day - very warm for a while.

Gap

Sunny intervals

Fringes

My birthday, and it threatened to rain later in the day.

Streaks

Odd streaky pattern in patches of cloud. Not sure how to describe it.

Moon by day

Cumulus humilis

Mostly blue sky.

Cumulus fractus, shadows and sunlight

Evening contrails

Iridescent pileus cloud

Weirdly lit cloud, originally uploaded by Natmandu.

Nathan (my son) saw this over Siem Reap, Cambodia. Lucky him!

Hooked cirrus

The first photo, of hooked cirrus, was taken early in the day. The second photo, taken over my neighbour's shed roof, shows cumulus, altostratus and cirrus in the evening.

Mostly stratus

We've had a lot of rain lately and not many interesting clouds - just grey skies.

Mostly overcast

Puffy stuff

Active sky

There was a lot of activity - cumulus swelling, moving, dissipating.

Altocumulus

Cloudless sky

Warm and sunny afternoon.

Fringe

Look closely - it's there.

Stratocumulus

Here and there, the sun broke through.

Fractus

Cirrus again

I haven't posted much lately - had days of cirrostratus before the weather turned colder and we just had stratus, which isn't very photogenic.

I thought that the cloud in the second picture looked like spilt milk.

High clouds

Think this is cirrus - it soon dissipated.

Cirrus

More cirrus

Cirrostratus

Late altocumulus

Reflected light

This window faces east, so it was puzzling to see light shining in late in the day, as though it was morning.


I went outside and found the light from the setting sun was being reflected into the window from a bank of cloud above the house.

Showers and sunshine

There were showers...

I chased this bank of cloud all the way home from Ipswich, but could never find anywhere safe to stop the car and get a clear shot. I only had the little Pentax with me, so the definition wasn't a good.

Late in the day, there were pastel colours and threatening grey clouds...

... and a strong peachey light on the cumulus from the setting sun.
These cumulus were lit from behind.