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Sunset1.jpg |
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DistantCloudTower.jpg |
Sunset.jpg |
Mammatus.jpg |
Cirrus.jpg |
Sunset.jpg |
| Freaky colours at sunset. This is for real honest! | Distant cumulus tower close to sunset. | Another sunset. | What looks like a line of mammatus hanging down from a patch of severe spreadout. | The frilly back end of a clearing weather front. | Top cover being lit in red at sunset highlighting a build cumulus cloud below. | |
 PassingStorm1.jpg |
 TheGap.jpg |
 HighCloudtops1.jpg |
 TheGapZoomout.jpg |
 HighCloudtops2.jpg |
 PassingStorm2.jpg |
| Passing thunderstorm. | A gap in the clouds. | Silhouetted cloud tops. | A zoomout of the gap. This cloud is much bigger than it looks in the pic. | some huge clouds passing by now. | It's getting dark early! |
 HighCloudtops3.jpg |
 PassingStorm3.jpg |
 LowCloud.jpg |
 PassingStorm4.jpg |
 PassingStorm5.jpg |
| More huge and dramatic cloudshots as the storm passes. The storm appeared to have some rotation so I was keeping an eye on the low bits for any funnel formation. | As the storm clears East over the next hour the eye candy continues. | |||
 CumulusPanorama.jpg |
 CloudStreet.jpg |
 Waves1.jpg |
 Altocumulus.jpg |
 Waves2.jpg |
| 2 shot panorama from Sharpenhoe Clappers looking roughly East. | Huge cloud street with minor spreadout. | Ripples in a disintegrating altostratus layer. | Other parts of the layer form a mackerel sky. | More wavey effects in the cloud layer to the far north. |
 Waves3.jpg |
 Waves4.jpg |
 Waves5.jpg |
 Waves6.jpg |
| Wider spaced wave clouds combined with a top layer, crepuscular rays and even a bit of iridescence to form some breathtaking cloudscapes an hour before sunset. | |||
 Flood.jpg |
 HeavyRain1.jpg |
 HeavyRain2.jpg |
 GardenFlood1.jpg |
 GardenFlood2.jpg |
 SunsetX.jpg |
| Half an hour of very heavy rain brought flash flooding to the area. | The aftermath. Almost the entire lawn submerged. Quite deep towards the pine tree. | A big X formed by two cirrus contrails at sunset. | |||
 CumulusDusk.jpg |
 CirrusAfterSunset.jpg |
 Cumulus.jpg |
 ToweringCumulus.jpg |
 Cumuloface.jpg |
| Cumulus on the horizon at dusk. | Cirrus after sunset. | Frog shaped cumulus cloud. | Rapidly building towering cumulus with pileus on top. | A 'face' sticking out the top of a large cumulus cloud. |
 Sunset1.jpg |
 Sunset2.jpg |
 Sunset3.jpg |
 Sunset4.jpg |
 Sunset5.jpg |
| 5 shots of a spectacular sunset, where the bottom of a large cumulus got lit up like a big red ribbon. Other clouds nearby also got lit up well, revealing details of their structure not normally visible. | ||||
 Lenticular1.jpg |
 Lenticular2.jpg |
 Sunset.jpg |
 22DegreeHalo.jpg |
| Lenticular-like clouds over Barnhill. One with a distrail-like feature. | Sunset over Kenton. | 22 degree halo seen around noon at Bison Hill. | |
 WindblownSand1.jpg |
 WindblownSand2.jpg |
 MoonVenus.jpg |
 Cumulus1.jpg |
 Cumulus2.jpg |
| Windblown sand and semi-overcast sky at Holme Dunes NNR, Norfolk. | Moon and Venus close encounter. | Cumulus clouds late in the day. Looks like a cloud boxing match, and then the right hand cloud rears up into a serpent and vaporises the left cloud. | ||
 LunarEclipse1.jpg |
 LunarEclipse2.jpg |
 LunarEclipse3.jpg |
 LunarEclipseTotal.jpg |
 Cirrus.jpg |
| 4 shots of a total lunar eclipse. Thumbnails are full size. Last shot was a 10 second exposure. | Looking West from Southwest Corner of Temple Mount, Jerusalem. Lots of fibrous cirrus. | |||
 22degreeRainbow.jpg |
 120degreeParhelia.jpg |
 22degree_ParehlicCircle_Sundog_L.jpg |
 22degree_ParehlicCircle_Sundog_R.jpg |
 22degreeRainbowZoom.jpg |
| 22 degree halo and circumscribed halo around the sun and a complete parhelic circle with 120 degree parhelia over Jerusalem, Israel. | ||||
 KentonSnow1.jpg |
 KentonSnow2.jpg |
 SnowCar.jpg |
 SnowFlakes.jpg |
 SnowyCommute.jpg |
| Snow in Kenton early in the morning. It was coming down heavily with 5cm on the ground. | Falling Snowflakes lit up by camera flash. | A very slow and snowy drive to work. | ||
 SnowField1.jpg |
 MiniSnowman.jpg |
 SnowField2.jpg |
 SnowDepth.jpg |
 SnowLogs1.jpg |
 GiantSnowBall.jpg |
| Trudging through ankle deep snow in a field at lunchtime. Plus a zoom in on a mini snowman in the vicinity. | Undisturbed patch of snow covering all but the tallest of grass stalks. | Measuring snow depth. Here it was more than 10cm. | Snow covered logs. | The kid in me takes over for a moment. Rolled a large snowball. | |
 SnowTrunk.jpg |
 SnowPath.jpg |
 SnowBench.jpg |
 SnowLogs2.jpg |
 LargeSnowman.jpg |
| Snow plastering the trunks of trees. | The same path as on 24th January. | Snow covered bench. | More snow covered logs. | Huge snowman spotted in the garden of a nearby nursery. |
 Sunrise.jpg |
 FaintRainbow.jpg |
 CloudGap.jpg |
 Crepuscular1.jpg |
 Spreadout.jpg |
 Crepuscular2.jpg |
| Sunrise. | Faint rainbow. | Gap in some large cumulus clouds. | Crepuscular rays. | Spreadout. | More crepuscular rays. |
 DistantWaveBars.jpg |
 Crepuscular3.jpg |
 Sunset1.jpg |
 Sunset2.jpg |
 Sunset3.jpg |
| Distant wave bars to the Northwest. | More crepuscular rays. | Sunset. | ||
 Snow1.jpg |
 Snow2.jpg |
 TeddingtonLockCumulus.jpg |
| Thin covering of snow on a path in Greenford. | Streamers of thin low wispy cumulus over Teddington Lock. | |