Lovely! It's what a California person would think the rolling green hills of the UK looks like. I see your near Dartmoor, isn't that where the "moors" are in Sherlock Holmes Hounds of the Baskervilles? I loved the book back when and the Basil Rathbone film version scarred the hell out of my kids when they were younger.A couple of shots I took with my drone today showing some looming clouds. It was surprisingly warm today. These were both shot near Exeter, UK. View attachment 57880View attachment 57881
I believe so, though I'm not much of a literary person in all honesty. It's also the same Dartmoor Hitman III's "A Day to Remember" DLC is set in, however it should be noted that the house they set that DLC in is completely fictitious.Lovely! It's what a California person would think the rolling green hills of the UK looks like. I see your near Dartmoor, isn't that where the "moors" are in Sherlock Holmes Hounds of the Baskervilles? I loved the book back when and the Basil Rathbone film version scarred the hell out of my kids when they were younger.
I couldn't see that at the time, I did spend many seconds looking for a secondary, but with no joy. And my potato has a terrible screen, so I didn't notice it when showing my g/f the photo later. However, I can pick it out now - thanks for drawing it to my attention! (Edit: I do have deficient colour vision, so surprise levels at such failings should be low.)You managed to get another faint one above the "primary" one as well. You are going to have SO MUCH GOLD!!!!
Is it an arc through the clouds? Or is it merely a bright contrail in the moist air below the visible dark cloud?But I don't understand the meteorology enough to know why a plane would carve out an arc through the clouds rather than just travel through. Ideas?
It doesn't show in the photo well but it looked like a gap in the clouds with blue sky showing through. Unfortunately, because it was back in February my memory of it isn't perfect and all I have is this crappy photon. Wish I had my real camera on me instead of just a phone.Is it an arc through the clouds? Or is it merely a bright contrail in the moist air below the visible dark cloud?
That's a sky tornado!View attachment 69346I noticed this a while back and took a reasonably poor photo of it with my phone. There was an arc through a cloud and I presume an airplane caused it because this is a typical direction for the planes leaving a nearby airport. But I don't understand the meteorology enough to know why a plane would carve out an arc through the clouds rather than just travel through. Ideas?
It certainly looks like a distrail, which is a gap caused by a plane flying through the cloud and evaporating the moisture. They usually form at lower altitudes than contrails.It doesn't show in the photo well but it looked like a gap in the clouds with blue sky showing through. Unfortunately, because it was back in February my memory of it isn't perfect and all I have is this crappy photon. Wish I had my real camera on me instead of just a phone.
Those are genuinely the best examples I've ever seen - well done sir!By coincidence I came here to post some distrail photos I took today.
Those are genuinely the best examples I've ever seen - well done sir!
I was gonna post my (potato-taken) "rainbow reaches the ground (being in front of near building rather than behind it)" photo but after seeing those I don't think I will.
I've seen a rainbow in the spray from my garden hose when I was out watering the petunias. Same water, same sun, same appearance, from a distance of 18 inches.I genuinely think I've never seen a rainbow so close before.
I genuinely think I've never seen a rainbow so close before.
To see a rainbow, the sun must shine behind you, and water droplets must be in front of you. The density of droplets determines the strength of the rainbow; so in a heavy shower (or @Ann K 's garden hose spray) a relatively short distance can produce a strong enough image.I guess it must have been a "local" rainbow caused by a shaft of sunlight coming between the trees and illuminating the rain?
I don't remember seeing one of these before - it's a "supernumerary rainbow", an additional set of bands abutting the inside of the primary rainbow. A google image search for shows they're not rare - but perhaps that's just survivorship bias, the best rainbows get photographed more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow#Supernumerary_rainbows
Yeah, local water spray/droplets can cause local rainbows.I have a very vivid memory of seeing a rainbow ending on the ground just a few yards in front of me as I was walking home from school in a heavy shower many years ago. I remember being told that that was impossible, but I swear I saw it.
On a slightly bigger scaleYeah, local water spray/droplets can cause local rainbows.
Just noticed these pics, Looks like they were taken here. 50°45'25.01"N 3°31'32.77"W, near where the River Exe and River Creedy meet.A couple of shots I took with my drone today showing some looming clouds. It was surprisingly warm today. These were both shot near Exeter, UK. View attachment 57880View attachment 57881
That's about right. I think I launched the drone from the path that's a just a bit to the West of that spot.Just noticed these pics, Looks like they were taken here. 50°45'25.01"N 3°31'32.77"W, near where the River Exe and River Creedy meet.
I'll have to look into that.I've actually ridden a homemade raft (with a few friends) down the Creedy and the Exe, back in the late 70's. An annual charity race called the "Exe Struggle". Don't know if it's something that's still being done now.