Rainy day

A rainy day in shades of grey.

A warm sunny day with fair weather cumulus humilis overhead. There were seagulls soaring in the thermals above my head - didn't have my zoom lens to get a better shot. The cloud in the middle photo looked a bit like a flying pig to me.

A changeable sort of day that ended with a pastel-tinted sunset.

Circumzenithal arc over St James's Park

A circumzenithal arc spotted over St. James's Park, London, at about tea-time - we were drinking tea when we spotted it.

If you look closely, you can see a second arc lower down. They're formed by light reflected from ice crystals in a cirrus cloud between 8 and 10 miles high.

For more on circumzenithal arcs, click here.

Here's one I saw over Suffolk four years ago.

Just after noon, cumulus clouds started to build up into cumulus congestus cells, ready for more rain later.

A bright sunny bank holiday afternoon, with lots of fair weather cumulus humilis in all directions.

Once upon a time I'd have taken off across the fields. Alas, no longer possible. The spirit is willing but the body's decrepit.

There was a pleasant warm breeze. The saplings by Manor Farm were being blown about under some cumulus fractus.

Later, I glanced out of the window and noticed this stratocumulus cumulogenitus, spreading out as the sun set.

Peach tinted stratocumulus at dusk.

Around tea-time, a few cumulus congentus clouds flattened out as the air currents changed, forming stratocumulus cumulogenitus.


This is a panorama formed by joining two photographs, so best seen large - just click on the picture.