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A lower sunpillar, sub-sun and sub-parhelion spotted at 35000 feet over Missouri, US.
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A robust cumulonimbus visually highlighted by the contrast of colour in the sky, spotted over the Picentini Mountains, Italy
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A developing storm over Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, US
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Altocumulus stratiformis radiatus, often seen as a precursor to changing weather patterns, spotted over Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
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A large version of altocumulus lenticularis spotted over Dupuyer, Glacier County, Montana, US
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A storm system over Crank, St Helens, Merseyside, England
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Altostratus at sunrise over Madison, Wisconsin, US
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Altocumulus lenticularis that looks like a giant hand floating over Lake Orta, spotted from Isola San Giulio, Italy
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A contrast in the sky over Kirkkonummi, Finland
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A distal "cutting through" a sun dog over Barmstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Virga at sunset over California, US
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The colour of sunset near Austin, Texas, US
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Sunset on a summer evening near Taylor, Texas, US
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Stratocumulus lenticularis spotted over Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Fallstreak Hole (Cavum) spotted over Gaw Hill, Ormskirk, West Lancashire, England
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For the past two years, Sharon, in her own words, had been chasing a photo of The Dickinson Homestead with just the right cirrus clouds above - delicate, feathered, sky-scrawled wisps that might echo Emily Dickinson’s most beloved metaphor. And it finally happened. As a reminder, this is the first stanza of her famous poem: “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - Cirrus spotted over The Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, Massachusetts, US
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Thanks Rebecca. I fly a lot over the central US and this was the third time in the last 18 months that I was fortunate to spot a subsun and subsun sundog at altitude with a thin layer of cirrostratus at or just below the plane.
Most interesting picture, Patrick!
Don’t often see this particular cloud phenomenon seen from 35,000 feet up in a plane. Looking carefully at the photo, it almost looks like the sun is reflecting off of a thin layer of see-through icecap, through which one can see mid-level mackerel-sky patterned Altocumulus cloud, similar to pack-ice on a vast ocean below.
From Rebecca Hill, Canberra, Australia