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Nacreous clouds or PSCs (polar stratospheric clouds) are 9 - 16 miles high, well above ordinary tropospheric ones. In a rare display over England these ones blazed bright in the late twilight, lit by the remaining high altitude sunlight. At lower left is a bank of much lower 'ordinary' tropospheric cloud.
The brightly coloured clouds are tiny ice crystals that diffract light to give their colour. They are embedded in less bright clouds containing nitric and nitrous acid droplets - these ones destroy stratospheric ozone. www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/nacr1.htm
Anyone who grew up a teenager during the 80s will recall this hit by the Eurythmics. This song played through my head as I watched the approaching storm while perched upon my Victory Crossroads bike. The result was one of my first landscape photographs featuring a warmly colored cloud formation with virga... and a wet and cold photographer. The refiner's fire for landscape photography I suppose.
After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.---Gustav Klimt
I love the stormy skies, the cloud textures and the slight threat of walking under a gathering storm...
A stormy evening in the park
Happy Fence Friday!
My path to the far hills lay directly between the two banks of clouds sitting in the valleys on either side.
Clouds over Pennington Country Park, with Winter Hill just visible in the background. And a blue sky the first for weeks here.
116 pictures in 2016 - 96 Clouds
Everglades National Park, FL
More from the stormy morning in the Everglades...
Now where is that lightning bolt when you want it? As I was setting up this composition a lightning bolt shot across that big cloud. But no matter how long I waited, no more lightning bolts... until I turned around. Like it was mocking me...