A clear cold sky

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.

Morning sun

First thing this morning from my window.

Cloud globules

First thing this morning, stratocumulus overhead. Convection clouds separated by clear spaces. Later the cumulus built up, and then went again.

A cloud-filled day

I made the mistake of putting three pictures in one post yesterday, which took a lot of fiddling about, so today's pictures are separate. Some days there's so much cloud action, I'm spoilt for choice. Today was one of those days.

Looking west

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.

Towers

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.

More cirrus

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.

Cold sky

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.






















Lower still, a few cumulus caught the colours of the sunset as they faded away.