WTF is that in the sky?!! (Noctilucent clouds over Brixton!)

[onemonkey]

first thought -- these are the end times, i'm in the shit now

*reads thread*

gets back to his sinning

 

[kingmaker]

first thought -- these are the end times, i'm in the shit now

*reads thread*

gets back to his sinning

eh?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

eh?

maybe he means skinning up?

 

[kingmaker]

Sorry but the picture from the Isle of wight beats everyones.

Second picture down.

http://theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/forums/thread/32461.aspx

How gorgous is that?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Sorry but the picture from the Isle of wight beats everyones.

Second picture down.

http://theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/forums/thread/32461.aspx

How gorgous is that?

Definitely looks the same as Editor's doesn't it.

And from that website, there's a suggestion that whoever took that photo posts it on this website

http://www.nlcnet.co.uk/

 

[editor]

I've edited the thread title so that:

(a) it's more accurate and
(b) I can pretend to be all knowledgeable about Noctilucent clouds

 

[Dubversion]

might I direct you all here - http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/

 

[editor]

might I direct you all here - http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Little bit too hard core for me, but I'm well chuffed to have witnessed that weird cloud last night.

Judging by those other sites, it seems that it's quite a rare phenomenon,.

 

[aurora green]

What an exciting thread!
Honestly, I leave Brixton for five minutes and miss all the excitment..
Wonderful photo, slightly ominous looking thing I must say...

 

[Fingers]

can someone put the news report on http://www.youtube.com/ coz I will be in the pub when it is on (if you have the technology/inclination!)

 

[kingmaker]

Little bit too hard core for me, but I'm well chuffed to have witnessed that weird cloud last night.
,.

Pah!
You don't fool us, all that Northern Lights bit was a ruse, you're drumming up business for

Noctilucent Anoraks 'R' Us , this summer in Dundee, aren't you

Seriously, this is a real event http://www.nlcnet.co.uk/NLC2006/

Not that I can talk, with my love of radio anoraking

 

[Stobart Stopper]

You can see the Editor's pic on the tv here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/ on tv news link on the right hand side then when it downloads scroll forward almost to the end of the bulletin.

 

[ddraig]

direct link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/...s/tvnews?size=16x9&bgc=990000&nbram=1&bbram=1

about 10 mins in (or near end as stobes said)

the pic was up for at least 30seconds with urban75.com across the top, with the presenter calling it 'one of london's websites'

 

[linerider]

And how long was the photo onscreen for?!

In case anyone missed it, they asked viewers to email in their opinions, so it will be back on again at 6.30pm.

Nice one Peter!

It was on screen for 26 seconds

 

[RubyToogood]

NB I only knew about noctilucent clouds from reading wiskers's thread about atmospheric optics here:

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=159262

although weirdly enough I now can't find any reference to noctilucent clouds on the site she linked to at all, so how I knew about them I have no idea now

It's my impression that they're at least as rare as aurora sitings, if not rarer.

 

[Pieface]

oooh - he's going to let us know what he thinks on the 6:30 programme this evening

 

[editor]

oooh - he's going to let us know what he thinks on the 6:30 programme this evening

It's a two-part edge of the seater!

 

[Pieface]

 

[fractionMan]

Has anyone mentioned chemtrails yet?

*scarpers*

 

[linerider]

It's a two-part edge of the seater!

who do you want to play you in the film?

 

[wiskey]

dunno if you've already looked here but this site it the dogs bollox when it comes to weather

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/ (sadly you cant borrow their pics)

 

[Pieface]

I want some mother of pearl clouds!

 

[girasol]

surely this must have something to do with the magnetic poles switch?

 

[tommers]

I saw it on the news! somebody was talking about it and I thought "oh, that's strange that was on urban" and then they showed a picture form urban on the news.

it was like urban on the telly.

well done.

 

[Crispy]

how much did you have to slip them to get www.urban75.com stuck next to your name, ed?

 

[treefrog]

Yay!!

I've seen these in the north of Scotland a few times, though never that impressive. Maybe send the pic to Sky at Night ed?

 

[RubyToogood]

Ha! Peter Cockcroft agrees with me that they are noctilucent clouds

The reason they shine at night is that they're high enough to still be catching the sun (which at the summer solstice is not that far below the horizon) long after other clouds.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

the pic was up for at least 30seconds with urban75.com across the top, with the presenter calling it 'one of london's websites'

One of London's BEST websites they should have said!

 

[laptop]

It is possibly the Sun - which is in the North-North-East at the minute - lighting up some very, very, high cloud?

Sorry for my unnaccountable lapse from polysyllabicity - noctilucent, that be Night-lit clouds, loike.

 

[Sunray]

Could it be something like this.

http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/cha.htm

I saw this two or three times in Austraila, thought it was a plane dumping its fuel or something,