A changeable sky

There were a few spots of rain just before this - hardly enough to bother about. About lunchtime, and the edge of a sheet of altostratus with a roll of cumulus clouds in the distance, looking south east.

Late afternoon, and some cumulus fractus were silhouetted by the setting sun.

The same time as the last photo - a pastel-tinted sky with altostratus (some undulatus to the left). Five minutes earlier there was more pink but by the time I'd grabbed the camera and put my shoes on, it had mostly gone.

The sun did its best to shine through a thin layer of altostratus translucidus this afternoon, but this is as far as it got. This is formed from a descending layer of cirrostratus.

Altostratus transludidus draws a veil

The day began with fractured altocumulus and cumulus humilis, then a sheet of altostratus translucidus came across, which developed into nimbostratus - more rain.

I'm showing off, using all these cloud names, but I just like the sound of them.