evening light

'evening light'

 

scenes from the evening sky over Oslo yesterday. The clouds gave a spectacular show of colour as the sun started to set, wrapping parts of the sky in Munch-like swathes of paint. Apparently part of a weather phenomenon known as Polar Stratospheric Clouds (nacreous clouds, and sometimes as 'mother of pearl clouds' (perlemorskyer in Norwegian))

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_stratospheric_cloud

 

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