Stormy Weather

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Except for the unwanted side-effect of increasing growth later. )

Sorry to be a party pooper, but these innuendoes are becoming a little tedious.

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry to be a party pooper, but these innuendoes are becoming a little tedious.

Touché !!!

[teamsaint]

Dry and pleasant here today.

Anybody know if there is a trick to post photos using imgur and an ipad?

Cant seem to make it work !

[mercia]

a circumzenithal arc in Wiltshire today .................. so there

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-27466519

[Nick Armstrong]

'Fraid so, Cali.

There appears to have been somewhat of a volte-face with broadly dry weather save for Thursday (perhaps).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/w2

[Nick Armstrong]

a circumzenithal arc in Wiltshire today .................. so there

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-27466519

"A smile in the sky"

Ahhhhh!

Seriously - rather interesting !

[amateur51]

There appears to have been somewhat of a volte-face with broadly dry weather save for Thursday (perhaps).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/w2

Oh that's cheered me up, thanks Cali

Saturday still has the dreaded downpour symbol however

[amateur51]

Great photo mercs - many thanks for posting

[Serial_Apologist]

There appears to have been somewhat of a volte-face with broadly dry weather save for Thursday (perhaps).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/w2

Which was what I meant.

[vinteuil]

a circumzenithal arc in Wiltshire today .................. so there

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-27466519

... can't trump mercia's wonderful circumzenithal arc at Bowood - but - the other day walking westwards on Hammersmith Mall there was an almost circular rainbow iridescence high in the sky some 15° south of the sun, at about 6.30pm. Much more visible with polarized sunglasses than with the naked eye. Don't know what it's called - might Serial know? - presumably light refracted by ice crystals in high cloud?

[Serial_Apologist]

... can't trump mercia's wonderful circumzenithal arc at Bowood - but - the other day walking westwards on Hammersmith Mall there was an almost circular rainbow iridescence high in the sky some 15° south of the sun, at about 6.30pm. Much more visible with polarized sunglasses than with the naked eye. Don't know what it's called - might Serial know? - presumably light refracted by ice crystals in high cloud?

If the iridescence surrounded the sun (or moon for that matter) it would be a halo. I must admit I've never heard of a perfect circular iridescence apparently autonomous from any visible refactory source, though a rainbow reflected in a lake would be one such example.

[Nick Armstrong]

circular rainbow iridescence

I saw the most amazing whole-circle 'standard' rainbow, of all places on/in the Sea of Galilee - driving down the winding road from the north towards Capernaum amid showers, the sun came out as we approached and started to have a view of the lake, and the rainbow 'standing' end to end on its surface was perfectly reflected in the still waters...

It was back in the days of roll-film, needless to say many photos were taken (at some risk on the roadside) - don't think I ever got them digitalised

[Nick Armstrong]

a circumzenithal arc in Wiltshire today .................. so there

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-27466519

Particularly good one here: http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2010/10/ci...alifornia.html

And there's more celestial jauntiness:

http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/04/circumzenital-arc-and-more-observed-over-florida-panhandle.html%20

http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2010/01/circumzenithal-arc-supralateral-arc-and-more.html

Some good explanations appended to those pics.

[Nick Armstrong]

Returning to the theme of this thread, I was impressed by this recent photo circulated by NASA, of a storm over Great Salt Lake, Utah

[amateur51]

It was back in the days of roll-film, needless to say many photos were taken (at some risk on the roadside) - don't think I ever got them digitalised

Get yer finger out then?!