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

[Crispy]

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

Saw one of these once

 

[editor]

Crispy - you coming down the boozer for a lazy one or what?

 

[Crispy]

ooh, you tease. I'll see if I can drag that lot away from big brother (the philestines)

EDIT: yeah alright we're shifting 5 mins.

 

[pembrokestephen]

A slide rule would be nice...


For younger readers:

It does sums.

Without batteries!

My dad had one of those. Fascinated by anything like that, I got him to show me how it worked, borrowed it and took it to school. Got told in physics to "stop messing about and use a calculator like everyone else", bah.

I was always getting told to stop messing about just for being clevvah, and I couldn't afford a calculator!

So it was back to long division, muahahaha.

 

[kingmaker]

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.

Makes you wonder how ice clouds can stay up there, don't it, given how heavy ice is.

Presumably these clouds form all year round, but are only visible round this time of year?

 

[Main Street]

Out of curiousity, how long have Lambeth been fiddling around with that pavement. Seems like ages

That street is very bright. How do people sleep?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Noctilucent: there's a word I haven't seen or heard in a long time. It's a nice word.

 

[paolo]

Something similar tonight... lovely...

Must have been alot lower though... this was happening around 10.30pm... visible elsewhere in the Uk. Down here in Laandan it was fading at 11pm. All gone now.