On Dec 9, 1:46*am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Pairs and triples like this occur with the demise of a large storm.
But this afternoon before the sky filled with lower cloud I saw some
pretty extensive "Mares' Tail".

What I saw filled the sky, or rather, most of the part of it in the
direction I was looking. I believe that behind me it was that stark,
cold blue of anticyclones in Winter in Britain.

What I was looking at was just the front edge of one of these
striations:

http://www.woksat.info/etcul09/ul09-1300-b-uk.html

And this is what it looks like to a demi-god:

http://www.woksat.info/etcul09m/ul09-msg-1200-uk.html

How small we are and how infinite is the majesty of its creator.
And yet, little as we are, what we see is what we get. It works
beautifully for man and beast.

And thanks too to Bernard Burton who will provide these images on disc
for a very small fee. How hastily we thank men when we owe so much to
the one we hesitate to praise.