Thursday 22nd May 2025

While camping on the Isle of Tiree, Scotland, Kat Berrie (Member 65,100), her husband, and their dog were taking an evening stroll when they noticed the Sun shining down through a large hole in a Stratocumulus stratiformis cloud layer to produce a single, broad crepuscular ray that stretched off to the horizon. There must have been small particles in the air, possibly mist droplets from the sea, because crepuscular rays appear where sunlight is scattered by atmospheric haze. Kat’s a big fan of crepuscular rays – even though, she says, ‘their name sounds like something you should get checked by a doctor’.




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