What's Your Current View?

[spitfire]

Innsbruck but getting on the train over the Brenner Pass to Bressanone/Brixen in a couple of hours, then up to Rio Pusteria for skidding about for a few days.

Nice! That rain ride will be cool.

 

[Sweet FA]

 

[a_chap]

Sorry for the extreme lateness.

This was my Christmas Eve view.




And you try saying Pembrolizumab after a couple of glasses of Sherry, eh?


p.s. oh, and god bless the NHS ❤

 

[spitfire]

 

[kebabking]

This morning.

Lunchtime, 400m higher

Went up to Clee Hill - along with the rest of Shropshire - for a bit of sunshine. We cooked lunch, had hot chocolate, ate cake, read The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, and popped into the pub on the way home.

Anyone want to educate me my children on what the cloud rainbow thing is?

 

[spitfire]

This morning.
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Lunchtime, 400m higher
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Went up to Clee Hill - along with the rest of Shropshire - for a bit of sunshine. We cooked lunch, had hot chocolate, ate cake, read The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, and popped into the pub on the way home.

Anyone want to educate me my children on what the cloud rainbow thing is?

Looks awesome, aura may be related to this phenomenon.

'Pilot's Glory': Why a Rainbow Encircles an Airplane Shadow on Clouds

Very specific atmospheric conditions and just the right perspective are necessary to see the phenomenon.

science.howstuffworks.com

 

[pseudonarcissus]

An afternoon on the beach. I’m sorry to hear there has been disruption at Britain’s airports due to the fog and the world has been cut off.

 

[jontz01]

Strolling towards Mt Cook.

 

[spitfire]

Au revoir France. You’ve been French.

 

[editor]

Foggy Tower Bridge

 

[existentialist]

From a couple of days ago (Port Talbot)

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

1043am, the brightest part of the day, as seen from our balcony…

 

[kebabking]

Forecast was complete bollocks, again...

I'm feeling quite treey today.

 

[kebabking]

Yup, that's just weird.

Mid-winter, Shropshire. Birds tweeting, Buzzards wheeling, Deer barking.

 

[spitfire]

Classic bait and switch, you thought I was done with France? WRONG!

Fab fog from up in the air.

 

[existentialist]

A brief sunny interlude under the overcast.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[kebabking]

No one about. Not a single soul in 90 minutes of walking...

 

[2hats]

This morning.

Went up to Clee Hill - along with the rest of Shropshire - for a bit of sunshine. We cooked lunch, had hot chocolate, ate cake, read The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, and popped into the pub on the way home.

I was descending into BHX at that time and spotted Clee Hill away to the west, poking out of the widespread blanket of fog (which stretched all the way back to the French/Swiss side of the Alps; held in place by the extensive high pressure system over much of western Europe).

Anyone want to educate me my children on what the cloud rainbow thing is?

That's a fogbow.

It's not a glory, or any sub-class thereof, since the observer/immediate foreground are not lit, the phenomena arc radius is large, the colours and bow brightness muted (glories almost always feature stronger colours and, typically, supernumeraries).

Compare your photo with the second one here, which illustrates a fogbow (outer) coincident with a glory (inner, which is itself a Brocken spectre):

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Your back would need to be sunlit to [also] see a glory (or Brocken spectre) in such circumstances.

 

[Sweet FA]

Just passing through St Jodok am Brenner.

 

[existentialist]

Cold and frosty, with a weird layer of cloud... (ETA : looks like an inversion layer)


An hour later...

 

[Rebecca Riot]

 

[davesgcr]

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Ferryside over the river ?

 

[Rebecca Riot]

Ferryside over the river ?

Yes, that's right.

 

[planetgeli]

I hate everyone on this page but especially Rebecca Riot and existentialist who live about the same distance from Carmarthen as me, just from the other side.

I had to drive to Carmarthen today. Nothing, NOTHING, but freezing fog all day long. And now it's getting worse.

Blue sky wankers.

 

[davesgcr]

Cold and frosty, with a weird layer of cloud... (ETA : looks like an inversion layer)

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An hour later...
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A shed with a magnificent view !

 

[existentialist]

I hate everyone on this page but especially Rebecca Riot and existentialist who live about the same distance from Carmarthen as me, just from the other side.

I had to drive to Carmarthen today. Nothing, NOTHING, but freezing fog all day long. And now it's getting worse.

Blue sky wankers.

I'm sure it's lovely and sunny (or was) up above the fog

 

[existentialist]

A shed with a magnificent view !

The shed's had it! That last big storm did for it.

 

[davesgcr]

The shed's had it! That last big storm did for it.

Dylan's wrting shed ok I presume - did it not go down the bank some years ago. ?

Fabuloius , sunny and freezing cold down here. Heavy frost all round. Grateful I got a mass of wood chainsawed last week.