July 2016
Cloud of the Month for July is an optical effect known as a ‘corona’
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Each month, we choose our favourite image from the Cloud Gallery.
Cloud of the Month for July is an optical effect known as a ‘corona’
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Continue ReadingCloud of the Month for May is one of the rarest cloud formations, and quite possibly the most difficult one to spot
Continue ReadingWhen the underside of a cloud layer is festooned with pouches like this, the formation is known as mamma
Continue ReadingWhen the sky is covered in a high layer of ice crystals, known as a Cirrostratus cloud, there is always a possibility for dramatic halo phenomena
Continue ReadingDuring the first days of February, strange and beautifully coloured cloud formations were noticed by many cloudspotters across Britain and Ireland
Continue ReadingMountains love dressing up in clouds. They wear them over their rocky slopes like delicate, flowing robes of moisture
Continue ReadingCloudspotting mountaineers and hill walkers on the Brocken mountain in Northern Germany often find themselves climbing through a bank of stratus cloud to emerge into the sunlight above
Continue ReadingYou know those glorious fingers of sunlight that sometimes burst out from behind clouds? They're called ‘crepuscular rays’, they form when light and shadow are rendered visible by haze in the atmosphere
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