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170636 zips by Lea Marston working 1V04 Nottingham to Cardiff Central some nice colour in the sky but the cloud base was already building.
On another occasion there would have been a stunning view of Cadair Idris and the other Welsh mountains in this southern part of the Snowdonia National Park, but this time the cloud base was extremely low. However, the famous Grade II*-listed railway viaduct across the Afon Mawddach stood out in stark contrast.
The bridge was originally constructed in 1867 and was designed by Benjamin Piercy, engineer to the Cambrian Railways. The single-track railway viaduct (751 yards long) has 113 groups of timber supports (pile bents) and a 5-span steel section incorporating a swing bridge (built in 1899) towards the Barmouth end. A lower boarded pedestrian walkway, which I remember walking across as a child, was added in 1868-79.
With the cloud base starting to break 66723 Chinook rolls by Barrow-on-Trent heading 6O01 Scunthorpe to Eastleigh rail train.
In meteorology, a cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body. These suspended particles are also known as aerosols and are studied in the cloud physics branch of meteorology.
Terrestrial cloud formation is the result of air in Earth's atmosphere becoming saturated due to either or both of two processes; cooling of the air and adding water vapor. With sufficient saturation, precipitation will fall to the surface; an exception is virga, which evaporates before reaching the surface.
Clouds in the troposphere, the atmospheric layer closest to Earth's surface, have Latin names due to the universal adaptation of Luke Howard's nomenclature. It was introduced in December 1802 and became the basis of a modern international system that classifies these tropospheric aerosols into several physical forms or categories, then cross-classifies them into families of low, middle and high according to cloud-base altitude range above Earth's surface. Clouds with significant vertical extent are often considered a separate family. One physical form shows free-convective upward growth into low or vertical heaps of cumulus. Other forms appear as non-convective layered sheets like low stratus, and as limited-convective rolls or ripples as with stratocumulus. Both of these layered forms have middle- and high-family variants identified respectively by the prefixes alto- and cirro-. Thin fibrous wisps of cirrus are a physical form found only at high altitudes. In the case of clouds with vertical extent, prefixes are used whenever necessary to express variations or complexities in their physical structures. These include cumulo- for complex highly convective vertical nimbus storm clouds, and nimbo- for thick stratiform layers with sufficient vertical depth to produce moderate to heavy precipitation. This process of cross-classification produces ten basic genus-types or genera, most of which can be subdivided into species and varieties. Synoptic surface weather observations use code numbers to record and report any type of tropospheric cloud visible at scheduled observation times based on its height and physical appearance.
While a majority of clouds form in Earth's troposphere, there are occasions when they can be observed at much higher altitudes in the stratosphere and mesosphere. Clouds that form above the troposphere have common names for their main types, but are sub-classified alpha-numerically rather than with the elaborate system of Latin names given to cloud types in the troposphere. These three main atmospheric layers that can produce clouds, along with the lowest part of the cloudless thermosphere, are collectively known as the homosphere. Above this lies the heterosphere (which includes the rest of the thermosphere and the exosphere) that marks the transition to outer space. Clouds have been observed on other planets and moons within the Solar System, but, due to their different temperature characteristics, they are composed of other substances such as methane, ammonia, and sulfuric acid.
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Sunrise 08:39 Sunset 16:07 Moonrise 16:09 Moonset 09:44
Fine weather
Temperture +6.5c wind chill 6.2c
Pressure 1036.2mbs falling Rain 0.0
Wind speed 2.2 mph direction 122 degrees dominant wind direction south.
cloud base 3,500 feet.
When I say sky scraper I mean it in the true sense of the word. The 309 metre (1,014 ft) high Shard, the tallest building in London, really does look as if its tip is tearing a hole in the cloud base.
Despite being partially hidden from view it still towers above everything around it. I'm planning on going up it at some point to take advantage of the fantastic views it offers. As far as I'm aware it's a 'behind glass' experience and you cant actually shoot outside. Anyone know?
This shot was taken from Tower Bridge; it's a handy location to shoot the south bank of the River Thames even if the heavy traffic can make it vibrate somewhat. You just have to pick your moment especially if you're on the centre section.
Most of the buildings you can see, with the exception of the Shard and Guy's Hospital next to it, are part of prestigious More London Estates development. They include City Hall, (the bulbous shaped building far left) a sunken amphitheatre called The Scoop (neon blue area), office blocks, shops, restaurants, cafes, and a pedestrianised area containing open-air sculptures and water features. To the right of the shot is the light cruiser HMS Belfast and London Bridge.
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7 exposure, tripod mounted hdr +3 to -3. pp in adobe camera raw, photomatix, & photoshop with various topaz plugins. Nikon D700 with 24-70 f2.8, @ 31mm, f9, ISO 800, exposure 0.4 - 25 sec's.
A series of images from an assault on Glaramara in the English Lake District in July 2021 that was abandoned due to clag (low cloud).
The fell (hill) to the right is Glaramara. On a good day, if you go via Allen Crags, which was the plan, there are spectacular views down into Mickleden and Langdale, over to to the Scafell range and across to Great End and Great Gable. With the cloud base stubbornly hovering just above 600m, though, this was not a good day and the only thing we’d be seeing, all the way back along the ridge, would’ve been the inside of a cloud.
Now, being in the mountains in clag can be quite atmospheric so, rather than abandoning the walk, we decided to break off onto the path to Sprinkling Tarn, have lunch and return to Seathwaite via Styhead where we met a gang of intrepid-looking young men asking directions for Scafell Pike. The conversation went thus:
ME: Have you got a map?
THEM: Nope.
ME: Ah. Do you have a map app or some such?
THEM: Like Google Maps?
ME: Ah. Will you be coming back this way?
THEM: No, we’re going to Wasdale Head.
ME: Ah. See those guys over there? Follow them.
THEM: OK. Cheers!
ME: Aye. You’ll sleep tonight, lad.
Before they left, I had them take a photo of the relevant section of my map. The folk I sent them after were doing ‘The Corridor Route’, it’s very popular (even midweek, now) so the paths are good and obvious, there’s only one mildly dodgy bit, although the cloud was low, there was no rain forecast and it doesn’t get dark till well after nine; they’d be fine. They’re young, they’ll have an adventure they can celebrate later in the bar, they’ll not see anything other than the ground beneath their feet but they’ll’ve conquered Scafell Pike.
Dear god.
50023 "Howe" (OC) - 3B09 (1550 SX London Paddington - Swansea via Bristol Temple Meads, which was formed of 6 RES parcel vans) - Iver (lnog before electrification & the closure of the footbridge) - 1616 - 21/05/87.
I was hoping to get out with the camera this afternoon , but it's only 7C & the cloud base is so low, that I couldn't even see A9C-HAK passing over the house a few minutes ago (1326) at only 2,500ft!!
June 1, 2011 Kearney Nebraska US
Rolling into city limits on the western side of the city. This storm had the perfect light reflecting off of it.
Nice Rain / Hail core just north of the city with the cloud base all the way to the south side of the city. Impressive light creating some cool storm imagery against this storm cell.
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The Fernsehturm (English: Berlin TV Tower) is a television tower in central Berlin, Germany.
This photo was taken on approach into Berlin in a special low fog situation, with a very low and thin cloud base leaving only "Alex" visible and the whole city covered with a cloud layer.
Close to Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte, the tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the administration of the German Democratic Republic. It was intended as a symbol of Berlin, which it remains today,[1] as it is easily visible throughout the central and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 meters, it is the tallest structure in Germany, and the second tallest structure in the European Union (by half a metre).
The tower has become one of the most prominent symbols of the country and is often in the establishing shot of films set in Berlin. Due to its location near Alexanderplatz, the tower is occasionally called "Alex" Tower. With almost 1.2 million visitors every year, the Berlin TV tower is one of the most popular attractions for tourists in Berlin. From 203 and 207 metres high you can look out over the entire city with its large number of tourist attractions.
April 22, 2022 - Kearney Nebraska US
Lightning is always present
Glimmering within the Ominous Cloudset
Shimmering Wonderful Light
Under the Base of a Thunderstorm
It Illuminates the Night!
Once I hear that rumble of thunder with all my gear set up! I get a chance to watch the illumination of the cloud to cloud-base lightning. Under the base of a thunderstorm as it approaches. Don't always get to see a bolt, but that's not the point of this video. It is the light.
Haven't made a new videos since last December so I thought it was time.
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The mighy A340 climbs nose high shortly after takeoff. Half of its long fuselage has vanished into the thick cloud base above, within an instant of this frame being recorded she will be gone, the low defeaning grumble of her 4 overworked motors the only thing left behind ....
an air filled celluloid cloud. A comment on repurposing and an exploration of the relationship between Cloud based technology and the informed consumer. What is the Cloud? Where is it and can we trust it with our most prized files? We need to encourage a healthy skepticism as we try to better understand the technology. The cloud shaped void at the center of the installation represents the unknown and uncertainty of the 'Cloud'. And whilst there is no empirical evidence suggesting the concepts is flawed, let's continue to question the pros and cons.
Clayton Blake. Galvanised steel frame, high density polystyrene substrate, airfilled celluloid balls, polyurethane coating. Swell Sculpture festival
Click twice to enlarge. These images occurred over a 5 minute period. I think it unusual to see horizontal forked (branched) lightning. The bright star in middle and lower panel is Jupiter.
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There was some heavy cloud up here yesterday as the sun began to dip. It made for some unusual and strong colours as the sun moved through the small gap between the cloud base and the horizon.
This was my final frame of the day - a long exposure made after the sun had departed.
June 1, 2011 Kearney Nebraska US
Rolling into city limits on the western side of the city. This storm had the perfect light reflecting off of it.
Nice Rain / Hail core just north of the city with the cloud base all the way to the south side of the city. Impressive light creating some cool storm imagery against this storm cell.
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Taken 26 Aug 21 with Fujifilm X-T3. This storm was about 25 miles away over northern Colorado. The cloud to ground strikes illuminated rain shaft while possible anvil crawlers with multiple branches extended horizontally beneath the cloud base.
A longer version of this can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vqbJG5ooTI.
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I was blessed to be able to witness this beautiful sunset atop Evergreen Mountain Lookout in Washington this past weekend. The low cloud base at about 5000 feet made for some unique golden light rays shining through the trees. I think this photo is a good example of why "golden hour" is called golden hour.
Another shot from the 2018 British All-Comers open, just before the start of a task set from the hills near Basano. Flying unpowered aircraft, altitude is our gasoline; we take any opportunity nature gives us to climb higher in the sky for we know as well as anyone that what goes up must come down again. Cloud base was not much higher than the launch, so we soon found ourselves jostling for every last metre of altitude, trying to surf any little wisp up the side of the ominous-looking, but actually quite benign clouds. Flying in cloud is generally forbidden, and in competitions it is seen as un-sporting as it can give an unfair advantage of altitude.
LPPT. Under terrible meteorological conditions with torrential rain and low cloud base / Sob condições meteorológicas terríveis com chuva torrencial e nuvens baixas....
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This photo possibly falls in to the category of not being that eye-catching, but I'm posting it anyway as the moment in time was definitely eye catching for me.
This morning was spent soaring over Morrone on a slightly foreboding looking day; the sky was fairly cloudy, and rain could be seen approaching from the depths of the Cairngorms. It all ended up flanking south, and when a little bit of sun broke through to warm up the heather-covered hills, we were soon up at cloud-base, and for a moment I found myself treading carefully in the white room, at the edge of a cloud that I'd climbed under and stayed a little too close to. Aiming for light, I broke through the side of the cloud, and in that moment I was presented with tunnel-like vision of sunny Braemar below me. A few seconds later I took this shot, which isn't nearly as dramtic but I still like the last fragments of cloud floating in front of me.
I decided to upload this image (although not perfectly aligned) because of the unusual contrast between the towering cumulo-nimbus and its cloud base. It almost looks like the thunderstorm is beyond a mountain ridge as some moisture in the form of low clouds is spilling over it. It's all about lighting and timing in order to capture something interesting and different.
This image shows a section of the Taurus Molecular Cloud based on a combination of data from ESA’s Herschel and Planck space telescopes. The bright areas in the picture shows the emission by interstellar dust grains in three different wavelengths observed by Herschel (250, 350, and 500 microns) and the lines crossing the image in a ‘drapery pattern’ represent the magnetic field orientation (based on the Planck data.)
This molecular cloud is one of the closest regions of star formation, at around 450 light years from us, and is known to contain more than 250 young stellar objects. The section in this image shows the archetypical example of a filament in a star-forming cloud. The main filament that stretches from the left of the image and curves up to the hub is known as the Lynds Dark Nebula 1495 (L1495).
L1495 contains several Barnard Dark Nebulae, which are dust-filled regions cataloged by astronomer Edward Bernard in 1919 and known as Barnard Objects. Dark nebulae are extremely dense regions of dust that obscure visible light. The central bright region is known as B10, with B211 and B213 stretching out from the bright area.
The B213/L1495 nebula is a clear example of a star-forming region where the magnetic field lines are perpendicular to the main filament, and also contains striations, or material that appears perpendicular to the filament.
Credits: ESA/Herschel/Planck; J. D. Soler, MPIA
My first photograph in almost a month was just a short visit to Helsby station as although it was forecast a sunny morning the early morning cloud refused to break up fully.
Thankfully though as Saphos trains S&C Fellsman approached Helsby station it was bright.
With a decent amount of grey clag which was determined to mingle with the rather grey cloud base 34046 “Braunton” came through dead on time.
Out of view at the rear of the train was class 47 D1944.
Taken on 15th June 2022.
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Sometimes patience is a huge asset, and can make or break an image. Now, to be fair, we don’t always have the time to wait for a scene to come together, nor is it often easy to return to a location to get better conditions. With this scene, however, I ended up doing both.
We camped near here on our hike north, and again on our path south. On our first path through the area, I had scouted this lovely little scene for a sunrise image, but unfortunately it didn’t pan out for me. I ended up with gloomy skies, and not a drop of tasty light. On the way back south, however, incredible light was common almost all day. When we arrived in the area, I went straight here to set up. While the exciting light was persistent throughout the day, the cloud base was just a hair too low. You couldn’t see the top of the peak. I ended up waiting quite a while for a moment of clarity, and thankfully that ended up being this image. Moments later and the peak was obscured again. Incredible day.
Sunset at Trifels Castle - View from Slevogtfelsen
In the evening, the clouds opened up for a spectacular sunset. Just before the sun set in the west, the last rays of the sun illuminated the lower cloud base and set it on fire. The aperture was set to 22 in order to create a significant aperture star.
The sky is completely covered by a grey layer of cloud with some lighter parts, which is common with Stratocumulus stratiformis. The layer is thick enough that the Sun would not be visible, hence it is of the variety opacus. The cloud base exhibits undulations, indicating an additional variety: undulatus.
There are moments in chasing that I truly can't believe that I captured. This was one of those moments. I remember growing up, seeing images as dramatic as these but never could I imagine I'd have a staple like that one day.
I captured this dramatic image of the debris raining down on me from the Lincoln, Nebraska tornado as it approached i80. My position to the storm and the sunlight illuminated the tall tornado a ghostly white, while it chucked chunks of red earth into the cloud base from the shear violence of the winds. This same moment was captured via my GoPro mounted to the roof of my car. I was going to upload a full length video with this included. But, this moment I really feel warrants its own spotlight. Enjoy!
I took a trip to the Glen Coe end of Rannoch Moor the other day, it's been a while since I did that.
The cloud was pretty heavy, but there was a breeze to keep the midgies down so I didn't mind hanging about once I found my spot. (With no wind I'd probably have been drained of all my blood)
Eventually the clouds took on some colour, and I noticed that with the wind direction coming from behind the Buchaille, there was a huge gap in the cloud-base caused by the bulk and shape of the mountain.
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Simply incredible looking DOWN on the area of rotation. Lots of turbulence underneath, but unsure if there was any actual tornadic circulation. Look closely, that cloud base is perhaps 50-70 feet off the ground.
Sunrise ... At 6.10am it snuck under the cloud base and glowed. Looking towards the tip of Shelly beach from Manly beach.
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Been playing with Lightroom on the phone. The app can utilize the phone's camera.
It doesn't record the image into the phone's Photos app. It records into the Lr app. When there is a decent internet connection, the phone's Lr app uploads the photo to the Lr cloud.
I began editing in the phone's Lr app. The phone's screen is a bit small for editing, so then when home, I continued editing in the cloud based desktop Lr app.
From there, edit in Photoshop was chosen.
In Ps, it was saved as a tiff file, but saved to the Lightroom Classic app. It went back and forth from LrC to Ps a couple times as I kept seeing things I'd missed.
Finally it was exported to here from LrC, which is why that version of Lightroom shows in the exif here.
I'm enjoying shooting with the phone's Lr app and then playing around with the photos in both the cloud based Lr and then the classic Lr and Ps.
We had some stunning optical effects visible on our way back from Limoges to Stanstead on 25th September 2017. This was the first time I'd ever seen optics reflected on the cloud base below; that was quite a special experience!
June 18, 2009 - Kearney Nebraska US
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It's June, Hot Humid... It's Prime Time Storm Season...
Though we only had a 10% chance of any type of development of storm that afternoon & evening. In fact all of the storms that day were to stay in western Nebraska and move to the north out of range of South Central Nebraska. That obviously was wrong!
I had just finished putting on the 2nd coat of stain on the new deck. Friends had stopped over to check on my progress. I had been so involved on completing the task at hand I didn't notice the lighting to the south of the city.
Let it be said I was unprepared and these 2 storms that rolled though that evening were unexpected. It was the reason I was finishing the staining of the deck. Though I did have everything charged and ready to go just in case. Wrapped up what I could and covered the new patio as best I could which would be a waste of time due to it all blew away!
This is the 1st set of storms for that evening. I grabbed my camera & went out in front of the house. We watched this shelf cloud form just to the west of the city and come right over the top of the house & to the south.
Can I say priceless. The lightning that was illuminating the sky was building & firing off every few seconds. With the reflecting city lights, these really came out with great definition. When the base of the 1st storm came over, the lower cloud base was churnin. Some really cool scud formations under this storm.
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This tornado took a few different forms in it's lifetime. This was the epic dust monster phase just before it roped out and vanished!
A tornado beneath the ominous dark cloud base of a low precipitation (LP) supercell churns up a massive dust cloud as it crosses rural farmland in the plains of eastern New Mexico. This particular tornado, rated an EF-1, occurred near the small town of Floyd in May 2025. The tornado traveled over 5 miles in 17 minutes, leaving behind a trail of mangled utility poles. Fortunately no significant structures were in its path, limiting the amount of damage that resulted. Every summer severe thunderstorms like this one spawn hundreds of tornadoes across the Great Plains.
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