A record of the changing Suffolk sky . . . click on a picture to view large . . . best seen full screen.

Friday 14 November 2008

Cirrocumulus lacunosus

Dark pink sky at dusk

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

Saturday 18 October 2008

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.

Wednesday 10 September 2008

Apologies

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

Thursday 21 August 2008

Two kinds of cumulus

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

Tuesday 12 August 2008

High winds

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

Thursday 7 August 2008

Blown away

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

Monday 4 August 2008

Pom pom

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

Sunday 29 June 2008

Lines

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

Lively sky

Rapidly changing sky.

Friday 27 June 2008

High ice

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

Sunday 22 June 2008

Sign of an advancing depression

Ripples of cirrus fibratus at a high altitude.

Tuesday 17 June 2008

Blobby cloud

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

Sunday 15 June 2008

Heap

A few developing cells escaped a layer of stratocumulus.

Saturday 14 June 2008

Friday 13 June 2008

Wednesday 11 June 2008

Fringes

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

Tuesday 10 June 2008

Streaks

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

Moon by day

Cumulus humilis

Mostly blue sky.

Thursday 5 June 2008

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.

Wednesday 4 June 2008

Mostly stratus

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

Friday 23 May 2008

Active sky

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

Thursday 22 May 2008

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Cloudless sky

Warm and sunny afternoon.

Tuesday 20 May 2008

Fringe

Look closely - it's there.

Monday 19 May 2008

Stratocumulus

Here and there, the sun broke through.

Wednesday 14 May 2008

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.

Saturday 10 May 2008

High clouds

Think this is cirrus - it soon dissipated.

Friday 9 May 2008

Thursday 1 May 2008

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.