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Wednesday’s beautiful sunset at Burrow Beach with vivid crepuscular rays. A rare enough sky that doesn’t appear often here.
Altocumulus lenticular and stratocumulus clouds dominated as distant virga/rain showers were falling.
A daytime view of the same picture next to this one, with some amazing altocumulus clouds formations in the skies.
Altocumulus floccus in the evening sky,it preceded a larger area which a thunder storm and rain arrived later.
I had to check Wikipedia to find the name of these clouds Whatever the name there still pretty interesting looking I think.
A nice sunset over the fields of Seeley's Bay.
The scientific names for clouds are in Latin, so I ran with that for the title and added the Latin words for sunset.
Here's the breakdown...
Altocumulus - From the Latin altum, which means height, upper air, and cumulus which means an accumulation, a heap, a pile.
Floccus - tuft of wool, fluff, nap of cloth
Solis - sun
Occasum - setting, going down; death
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This cloudscape shows a fine example of potential instability. With virga falling after sunrise, the air cools through evaporation and thus increases conditions for later thunderstorm development.
Image taken at 7:43AM.
Stunning skyscape. Sometimes it's rewarding to direct your gaze upwards.
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Altocumulus Castellanus Close up. I think this is too big to be Altocumulus Floccus. In any event there was quite a big thunderstorm a couple of hours later.
A prolonged and extensive display of altocumulus castellanus and altocumulus floccus over Exeter on the evening of 22 August 2017. These were the precursor to intense thunderstorms over northeast England the following morning, which produced flash flooding in a number of places. A parhelion (mock sun) is also visible in cirrus cloud near bottom left of the photo.
A prolonged display of altocumulus castellanus and altocumulus floccus over Exeter on the evening of 22 August 2017. These were the precursor to intense thunderstorms over northeast England the following morning, which produced flash flooding in a number of places. Wisps of cirrus fibratus were also visible above the medium-level clouds for a while.
Altocumulus Castellanus Close up. I think this is too big to be Altocumulus Floccus. In any event there was quite a big thunderstorm a couple of hours later.
A prolonged and extensive display of altocumulus castellanus and altocumulus floccus over Exeter on the evening of 22 August 2017. These were the precursor to intense thunderstorms over northeast England the following morning, which produced flash flooding in a number of places.
A prolonged and extensive display of altocumulus castellanus and altocumulus floccus over Exeter on the evening of 22 August 2017. These were the precursor to intense thunderstorms over northeast England the following morning, which produced flash flooding in a number of places.
An extensive display of altocumulus floccus over Exeter on the evening of 22 August 2017. These clouds indicate mid-level instability, and in this case were a precursor to intense thunderstorms over northeast England the following morning, which produced flash flooding in parts of Yorkshire.