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Great parhelics above Michael. You must have had fun that day. When you lure (sun)dogs with a sorbet, you can’t expect them to wait for you to get your camera, Ruth. Anyway, still a nice 22 degrees halo.
Hi Elliot, nice to see you here with such a colorful rarity at your latitude. Great spotting.
Split SundogHello Annie, your brother spotted two peculiar clouds indeed, like two little flying carpets. The second photo helps in identifying them. There you see what started as contrails has spread out and got threads. You can see the same in the two little clouds. At the left of both you can see where the contrail started as a small segment of a contrail. It has been spread to the right in threads. What makes them peculiar is that they seem to be so local and that’s because a contrail needs the right amount of moisture along its line. That the contrails are so short tells us that only here enough moisture was present to let the contrail develop and persist. Then it also has spread to the right to form these nice carpets. In the second photo you can see that there must have been enough moisture for a much longer contrail to develop and spread out.
I hope you like it.
Best wishes, Hans
Hello Nienke,
Your question is already from more than a month ago. I don’t want to spoil the thought of it, but I don’t think you spotted nacreous clouds. They are rare in the Netherlands (as you know) and when they appear, they appear in the winter after strong winds nearby or elsewhere. I think the lighter small ones are cumulus fractus and in the background some more distant altocumulus or even cirrus (I am not sure at all). The colors of the reddish cumulus fractus are due to the late(r) hour when the reds dominate to color the clouds. What do you think?
Hans
My last contribution on this thread (great ones above btw!) was accompanied by a quote from a song by Bruce Springsteen from the album Born to Run and the song Thunder Road. I love the album and this song in particular very much. And I love Bruce Springsteen even more since May 2025. He is great and unforgettable talent for sure.
Running Gag
You posted an interesting one to identify Heidi. A very nice one. To me it seems to be altocumulus lenticularis. Maybe it is not a very obvious lenticular example, but – although a bit chaotic – it still has lenticular features. Is the image taken in the neighborhood of mountainous terrain? If yes, it is very likely lenticularis.
I hope you like it.
HansI am curious about your remodeling project, Michael. Remodeling President Musk seems to be necessary as is remodeling mr. president with his pathological personality disorder.
Here is some black and white asperitas.
Does A cloud Has Gender?
Ah, delicate and tasty bacon, Michael. And then a creamy cappuccino from Ruth. Strange combination?
Please No Hairs In It
Wow, great bright colors Donatelli, in what you think is a sundog. Love it.
It is not a sundog, but a circumzenithal arc (CZA). The CZA is about 45 degrees above the sun as a part of a circle around the zenith. There is only a small part visible in your image. and it has its blues above. A sundog is always 22 degrees at the left or the right of the sun with the reds facing the sun and the whites at the other end. The colors in between are usually not that bright as in your CZA. Here is an example of two sundogs accompanying the sun as dogs should do: Two faithful sundogs
Here is a sundog in close up to compare. The sun is 22 degrees at the right (out of frame).
Sundog
