At about noon the sky overhead was mostly cirrostratus and cirrus, with a few wisps of cumulus scudding by, but a bank of cumulus was building up to the south-west, and heading easterly.
The panorama is made from several photos stitched together with Autostitch. Click on the image to see a large version.
By two-ish, the sky was mostly stratocumulus.
A record of the changing Suffolk sky . . . click on a picture to view large . . . best seen full screen.
Friday 30 November 2007
Thursday 29 November 2007
Wednesday 28 November 2007
Tuesday 27 November 2007
Monday 26 November 2007
Mackerel Monday
Sunday 25 November 2007
Layers
The highest (top left) is altocumulus. In the middle, the diagonal edge of a sheet of stratocumulus. Below that, a wisp of scudding cumulus. The cables just happened to get in the way, but made an interesting pattern.
Labels:
altocumulus,
cables,
cumulus,
stratocumulus
Saturday 24 November 2007
Light pollution
Two examples of light pollution, at about 6 pm-ish. The first is an orange glow in the sky caused by sodium street lighting in Ipswich reflected off low level cloud. The second is a bright light to the rear of a house just across the field, which is on most evenings.
They're both reasons why it's become much more difficult to see the stars at night. Light pollution is also very wasteful of energy. The Campaign for Dark (star-filled) Skies wants action to prevent light pollution, and so do I.
They're both reasons why it's become much more difficult to see the stars at night. Light pollution is also very wasteful of energy. The Campaign for Dark (star-filled) Skies wants action to prevent light pollution, and so do I.
Labels:
CfDS,
darkness,
light pollution,
night sky,
sky
Friday 23 November 2007
Thursday 22 November 2007
Wednesday 21 November 2007
High speed cumulus
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Soggy sky
Monday 19 November 2007
Grey Monday
Sunday 18 November 2007
Saturday 17 November 2007
Stratus with birds
Friday 16 November 2007
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.
Thursday 15 November 2007
Wednesday 14 November 2007
Cloud globules
Tuesday 13 November 2007
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
Towers
More cirrus
Monday 12 November 2007
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.
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.
Labels:
cirrocumulus,
cirrostratus,
cumulus,
sunset
Sunday 11 November 2007
Cross winds
The cirrus streak is being swept along by the jet stream - high speed winds at about 30,000 feet.
The cumulus, lower down, is moving at a different speed, and in a different direction.
The cumulus, lower down, is moving at a different speed, and in a different direction.
Labels:
cirromulus stratiformis undulatus,
Cirrus,
cumulus,
jet stream
Saturday 10 November 2007
Friday 9 November 2007
Thursday 8 November 2007
Wednesday 7 November 2007
Tuesday 6 November 2007
Here's one I prepared earlier
Monday 5 November 2007
Sunday 4 November 2007
Cumuliform lumpiness
A description used by Cloudman John A Day to describe this sort of sky. This is looking east. I could see the bottom of some interesting cumulus in the distance, looking west, but this is all I had overhead most of the day.
Labels:
clouds,
cumuliform,
cumulus,
grey,
stratocumulus
Saturday 3 November 2007
Friday 2 November 2007
Thursday 1 November 2007
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