Photos of Clouds and Skies (That you took yourself)

Trailspotter said:

I've taken this photo with iPhone during lunch break and then rushed in for a proper camera. Sadly, CZA's gone by the time I've come back

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Yesterday evening I saw what looked a sun pillar, which I'd never seen before. Earlier there was a strikingly strong sundog, but in neither case did I have a "proper" camera. I pulled off the freeway to try to get the sun pillar with my iPhone, a lost cause.


It looked like this, but with a few more clouds.

An early-morning fallstreak cloud that greeted me when I opened the curtains a few days ago:

Interesting cloud formations in San Francisco area today. 1st time I've ever noticed mammatus clouds (at least that's what I think they're called -pls let me know if it's something else! ):

Miss VocalCord said:

Not too long ago I was flying high above the clouds and saw a complete rainbow circle (glory) with the shadow of the plane inside of it.

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A friend of mine posted these photos to facebook last night. Pretty cool stuff. I know I didn't take the pictures myself, but this was the closest thing to an appropriate thread I could find.

Contrail shadow and halo at Montana Snowbowl this morning.

Here are some Towering Cumulonimbus to the west of Sydney Australia. These are typical for the summer "storm season" for the East coast.


Here's the corresponding radar returns. The cell above is the target under the white line (current ground track) at about 70nm

just a little something from south east Queensland Australia. taken at about 6:30pm local time. sorry about the low quality image.

wish I had a nice camera to capture more of the detail. just using a cheap phone camera, not sure how to embed the photos either sorry.

Lots of high level cirrus and contrails today. The above image is HDR and contrast enhanced

Multiple shadows! intersecting shadows no less. Very nice.

Nice altocumulus this morning, with a distrail on the left:



And this was strange, almost like the contrail formed an arrowhead into the cloud. I didn't see the plane but maybe it was heading left to right and "pulled" some cloud out with it?



Panorama for context:

Redfern. September 14, 2015.

A couple of fallstreaks over Bakersfield CA. 3:30 pm PST, Jan. 22, 2016

sun dog over Melbourne 26/1/16 or is this just 22° halo im not sure of the terms difference



aah here the definition so its just 22° halo

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/sundog.htm

Sunrise clouds this morning over France



(Photographed from an easyJet plane fitted with the famous "three-pipe aerosol delivery system" )





Edit: Today I Learned that airplane mode no longer disables the GPS geolocation on iPhones, as those photos come up with locations that agree with the flightpath playback.

For the second photo these are the co-ordinates from the EXIF data:



and here is the screenshot for the time in question on Planefinder:





The second pic was recorded as 6,117m above sea level. Planefinder gives the altitude at that time as 18,650ft (5,684m), but the altitude doesn't update very frequently.

Some linear clouds over SEA

Contrails over the Antelope Valley, near Pearblossom hwy, CA.......about 2010.
(if I remember right, it was a month after the last snow, April or May, east side of the San Gabriel mountains, and stream swelled from melting snow.)

Looking just East, of North.
NNE

Nearly a full moon......and a hi-watt bicycle light to paint the trees.

The background is LAX....long exposure.

Clouds and contrails
Denser young and not so young sunlit contrails shine through a thin cumulus cloud:

A couple of quick shots I took of the sunset, rain and storm clouds over Bristol, UK just a few minutes ago (excuse the iffy photography), these have not been colour adjusted, the sky was really that colour.

Thursday 24th March 630am morning sunrise looking south-south east over French & Phillip island towards Tasmania a couple of trails likely be jet star and virgin on way or way back Hobart or Launceston

Something painted by me.....10 x 16 ft canvas, on the floor, pic from a ladder, Magnolia tree.....
(EDIT...could be an awsome ceiling mural ?).....but this is not for that, it's for an Ad.

The pot of goldVauxhall Vectra at the end of the rainbow. On the M4 heading home from Wales (and no I wasn't driving at the time!)

Trailblazer said:

The pot of goldVauxhall Vectra at the end of the rainbow. On the M4 heading home from Wales (and no I wasn't driving at the time!)

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Verified. M4 indeed

Contrail north of Missoula MT this morning. Photos about 15 minutes apart.

I hike in the Trinity Alps a lot...this was my camp back in June...

NoParty said:

I hike in the Trinity Alps a lot...this was my camp back in June...

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Wow. That's beautiful! A good friend of mine backpacks there every summer. Now I see why.

Trailspotter said:

Verified. M4 indeed

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Have you been stalking me?

Trailblazer said:

Have you been stalking me?

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No, I haven't been stalking you. It was Katie chasing you along M4
I just was puzzled by seeing a section of M4 with only two lanes in it and decided to find it using clues from your photo. Also, I wanted to deduce the time of the photo from the rainbow position. If my preliminary results are correct, you crossed Severn using the Second Severn Crossing around 6 PM BST.

PS It appears that I have never passed through this stretch of M4. Once we returned from Wales via the Severn Bridge and joined M4 at the junction featured in your photo

Trailspotter said:

No, I haven't been stalking you. It was Katie chasing you along M4
I just was puzzled by seeing a section of M4 with only two lanes in it and decided to find it using clues from your photo. Also, I wanted to deduce the time of the photo from the rainbow position. If my preliminary results are correct, you crossed Severn using the Second Severn Crossing around 6 PM BST.

PS It appears that I have never passed through this stretch of M4. Once we returned from Wales via the Severn Bridge and joined M4 at the junction featured in your photo

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You are pretty close. The photo was taken at 17.44 BST.

I took this one on the bridge itself five minutes earlier, at 17.39:



The rainbow was visible for about 15 minutes at varying intensities, with another one appearing half an hour or so later once we had passed through another band of showers. Certainly some interesting weather in the last couple of days - a heavy hail shower is just passing through as I write, when half an hour ago it was bright sunshine.

The back end of Katie yesterday evening.

Solar halo this afternoon, and contrail.

My sky is less pretty than @Trailblazer's, but otherwise very similar.

Everytime I leave the dslr at home i see something worth takeing a shot.
So, unfortunately taken on the train with my mobile.
I found the pattern quite interesting.

Nice evolution overhead, I guess it's windy up there.. Reminded me of Trump.

Bonus 2 planes in first photo

Gridlock said:

Nice evolution overhead, I guess it's windy up there..

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Lots of cirrus uncinus in the Surrey Hills this morning too. Heralding a change to rainy weather for the bank holiday tomorrow



And a bit of halo poking out from behind the tower:



Trivia: this tower was built on top of Leith Hill in the 1760s by a wealthy local to make it over 1,000ft tall, and thus a "mountain" (in English terms anyway).

First time I've noticed these waves perperpendicular to each other



Crisscrossing Chem HAARP trail ring frequency clouds, anyone?

I forgot to post my baseball pics.. Philadelphia, 19th April;

Gridlock said:

Reminded me of Trump.

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I'm a shoddy photo editor, but I tried.

you don't often see contrail grids over Bristol, but there's a nice one out there today. Pics taken approx 13:15 (BST) 51°27'14.02"N 2°33'39.36"W looking North West.