Photos of Clouds and Skies (That you took yourself)

[Alytha]

I found a curly cloud!

And whatever these are?

 

[cloudspotter]

I found a curly cloud!
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And whatever these are?
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That's Virga in the second photo. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground

 

[Todd Feinman]

The first cloud picture looks like a fallstreak hole / hole punch cloud. Perhaps the falling cold air caused the spiral of ascending moist air to appear, which has been displaced as the cloud cover is moving.

 

[Mythic Suns]

Shot late August from Crediton, UK, close to the big Tesco

 

[Giddierone]

A cloud crease?

 

[RTM]

Wow, they look very angular. You could see how with the right lighting, dark clouds etc, someone could think of it as a solid triangular shape.

 

[Alytha]

X marks the spot?

 

[Ann K]

X marks the spot?

That must be over Scotland.

 

[JMartJr]

Not the neat near-perfect circle, but the only fallstreak hole I've ever seen. So y'all get to see it.

 

[sigmops]

I am not sure if this is appropriate for this thread, but here is a shadow of a contrail cast on the earth as viewed from the plane that generated it.

 

[Rex Banner]

Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. I think!

 

[Ann K]

Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. I think!

Not from the description I find. K-H should be smooth waves. But I'm not an expert in clouds, so don't take my word for anything! Whatever they are it's a terrific photo.

 

[JMartJr]

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Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. I think!

You could start a whole new conspiracy theory with that picture! Really amazing.

 

[Trailspotter]

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Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. I think!

Looks familiar and similar to the clouds discussed in these old threads:

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/interesting-clouds-row-of-fallstreak-clouds.2155/

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/jellyfish-clouds-over-south-australia-altocumulus-floccus.5354/

 

[Rex Banner]

You could start a whole new conspiracy theory with that picture! Really amazing.

If you reverse image search that picture you'll find a ton of Facebook posts from people in my local area who saw the same clouds on that day. The comments are ... interesting.

 

[Ann K]

@Rex Banner
I commented on your photo this morning, and went out to lunch this afternoon ...where I saw clouds a lot like yours. The friend with me who had previously said "Oh, that's fake, it must be AI" is now a believer! (Sorry, I didn't have a camera with me. )

 

[Trailspotter]

I am not sure if this is appropriate for this thread, but here is a shadow of a contrail cast on the earth as viewed from the plane that generated it.

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I have posted a couple of similar photos in a different thread, which I used to verify the aircraft locations and altitudes:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ph...at-you-took-yourself.1487/page-19#post-174718
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ph...at-you-took-yourself.1487/page-19#post-175717

However, I would like to suggest your photo for a different thread on Geolocation Exercises:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/geolocation-exercises.13384/

I found the location by a "brute force" approach, going over various possible places on Google Maps this Sunday, but wonder if somebody could come with a smarter and faster method.

PS I DM'ed my answer to @sigmops

 

[sigmops]

I have posted a couple of similar photos in a different thread, which I used to verify the aircraft locations and altitudes:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ph...at-you-took-yourself.1487/page-19#post-174718
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ph...at-you-took-yourself.1487/page-19#post-175717

However, I would like to suggest your photo for a different thread on Geolocation Exercises:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/geolocation-exercises.13384/

I found the location by a "brute force" approach, going over various possible places on Google Maps this Sunday, but wonder if somebody could come with a smarter and faster method.

PS I DM'ed my answer to @sigmops

@Trailspotter you correctly geolocated the location of my photo!

I see you mentioned brute forcing it. Sorry, I should have thought to provide that info in my post. I hope it was a fun exercise at least. Was there anything hints in the photo that got you to the correct location?