Sunsets

[Serial_Apologist]

"Proving" in the older sense of "testing the validity of", S_A (rather than "showing it to be true"). The same origin of "proof-reading" and "the proof of the pudding".

I might be wrong, but isn't the "red sky at night" proverb referring to the actual sky, rather than the clouds in it? (The atmospheric conditions causing a red hue to the sky at particular times of the day being a sign of bad/good weather?) Clouds generally pick up the red of the spectrum at the sun's angles at dawn and dusk, so shepherds would be permanently confused if they relied on cloud colour.)

Either road up (or neither), I prefer Eric Morecambe's version:

"Red sky at night? Shepherd's cottage on fire."

TBH I've always assumed it to mean both sky and any clouds present. Recently (at last!) professional meteorologists have been advising jo public that the red at sunset should be seen as indicative of good weather to come when it is restricted to a low glow in the western sky and only reflected on high cirrus cloud, any residual daytime cloud having more-or-less melted away, but that when the sky is livid red, and particularly when that red stretches dramatically right across the sky to illuminate clouds in the east, this often means very stormy conditions to come.

Thanks for the "proving" explanation, ferney.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No problem, S_A - and thanks in turn for the "red sky" explanation: it made clear what I'd half-remembered.

[teamsaint]

last knockings of daylight in S Wilts today.

[Serial_Apologist]

Beautiful sight there, teamy, catching the back of the front () with the low-angled sun illuminating the undersides of the associated stratocumulus, with altocumulus above. Probably a prelude to some fog where you are, unless the wind picks up.

Well done! There are weather sites where you can submit photos like that for competition; that one would probably be a winner.

[teamsaint]

Beautiful sight there, teamy, catching the back of the front () with the low-angled sun illuminating the undersides of the associated stratocumulus, with altocumulus above. Probably a prelude to some fog where you are, unless the wind picks up.

Well done! There are weather sites where you can submit photos like that for competition; that one would probably be a winner.

Thanks S-A.
I was hoping you would give us the technicals.

no talk of fog on the BBC, but I'm sure you know far better.I'll warn the locals........

( good thing I didn't reverse the photo, or I'd have had the back of the front back to front.)

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks S-A.
I was hoping you would give us the technicals.

no talk of fog on the BBC, but I'm sure you know far better.I'll warn the locals........

( good thing I didn't reverse the photo, or I'd have had the back of the front back to front.)

[Serial_Apologist]

Here's one weather photography site:

http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?/forum/139-uk-weather-photography/

[Beef Oven!]

Excellent photo, teamsaint.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Today -

[Beef Oven!]

Today -

ibid

[vinteuil]

ibid

... ibid?

Is Ibid one of they Turkish resorts you frequent?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is that the other side of the Scarborough view you posted the other week, Alpie - near the Cleveland Way North of Old Scalby Mills?

[Beef Oven!]

... ibid?

Is Ibid one of they Turkish resorts you frequent?

Yes, just op cit Bodrum.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Is that the other side of the Scarborough view you posted the other week, Alpie - near the Cleveland Way North of Old Scalby Mills?

No, this Filey, looking from the Brigg towards the town.

[Nick Armstrong]

Ely Cathedral, Summer Solstice 20.6.2016







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