I always keep an eye out for refraction and other optical
phenomena, but in spite of copious amounts of Ci and Cs
on many days in the last couple of months I have seen very
few. Today's long-lasting but rather faint halo emphasises the
recent absence of such events. Anyone care to disagree?

Philip

everybody in the southeast reported that CiSt shield ,what was it a trough
line or a dry band of showers not reaching the ground ?,nice halo though
Philip

RonB
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...
I always keep an eye out for refraction and other optical
phenomena, but in spite of copious amounts of Ci and Cs
on many days in the last couple of months I have seen very
few. Today's long-lasting but rather faint halo emphasises the
recent absence of such events. Anyone care to disagree?

Philip

I don’t see as many nowadays as I used to but I put that down to my 70
year-old eyes.

I know you’re not quite that old Philip, but ..... :-)

Jack

In article , Philip Eden
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
I always keep an eye out for refraction and other optical phenomena, but
in spite of copious amounts of Ci and Cs on many days in the last couple
of months I have seen very few. Today's long-lasting but rather faint
halo emphasises the recent absence of such events. Anyone care to
disagree?

Au contraire; I have been on the lookout all year and seen only poor 22 deg
halos. Are our Ci clouds being contaminated with too much liquid H2O? Or are
they not as high as they look and are generally high As?

--
Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j

Philip Eden wrote:
I always keep an eye out for refraction and other optical
phenomena, but in spite of copious amounts of Ci and Cs
on many days in the last couple of months I have seen very
few. Today's long-lasting but rather faint halo emphasises the
recent absence of such events. Anyone care to disagree?

Over the south west one night last week a huge band of dark blue cloud
formed what looked to be the start of a vortex under the middle.
Someone posted about heavy rain later it would have been near them.

Yesterday evening I was looking at contrails moving rapidly north from
Jets flying over from Manchester.

It was plain to see too how the stuff pulled down al la:
http://my.opera.com/Weatherlawyer/al...icture=9298406
was forming thin veils of ice cloud. (Meno speeko delingua, why TH
should I, when a perfectly serviceable modern language can be used
just as effectively?)

Anyway apart from the blue being a phenomenon caused by refracted
light that would probably show up as a rainbow type of effect viewed
from above, no haloes and etc here.

"Rodney Blackall" wrote in message
...
In article , Philip Eden
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
I always keep an eye out for refraction and other optical phenomena, but
in spite of copious amounts of Ci and Cs on many days in the last couple
of months I have seen very few. Today's long-lasting but rather faint
halo emphasises the recent absence of such events. Anyone care to
disagree?

Au contraire; I have been on the lookout all year and seen only poor 22
deg
halos. Are our Ci clouds being contaminated with too much liquid H2O? Or
are
they not as high as they look and are generally high As?

--
Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j


Uninspiring optical phenomena this year observing from Hampshire
and Wiltshire until today, Saturday 9th May. The type of display
was nothing exceptional - a solar halo - but its duration approached
11 hours from the time I first noticed the ring at 0800Z until its slow
fade just before 1900Z, often of moderate intensity and occasionally
complete. Fortunately, there was insufficient Cumulus to block all
of the halo each time I looked up at the sky.

With the Cirrostratus sheet still present and a full moon rising, the
chances of seeing a lunar halo tonight must be reasonably good.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)

On 03 May, wrote:
In article , Philip Eden
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
I always keep an eye out for refraction and other optical phenomena,
but in spite of copious amounts of Ci and Cs on many days in the last
couple of months I have seen very few. Today's long-lasting but rather
faint halo emphasises the recent absence of such events. Anyone care to
disagree?

Au contraire; I have been on the lookout all year and seen only poor 22
deg halos. Are our Ci clouds being contaminated with too much liquid H2O?
Or are they not as high as they look and are generally high As?

Today (Sat 9th May) was another good example. 7/8 to 8/8 CiCs all day and
only the faintest hint of a 22 deg ring at times. Disappointing.

--
Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j

On May 3, 4:31*pm, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom
wrote:
I always keep an eye out for refraction and other optical
phenomena, but in spite of copious amounts of Ci and Cs
on many days in the last couple of months I have seen very
few. Today's long-lasting but rather faint halo emphasises the
recent absence of such events. Anyone care to disagree?

Philip

Saw a "mock sun" to the right (north) of the sun at approximately 2000
BST from the Fareham area, Hampshire

Nick

wrote:

I always keep an eye out for refraction and other optical
phenomena, but in spite of copious amounts of Ci and Cs
on many days in the last couple of months I have seen very
few. Today's long-lasting but rather faint halo emphasises the
recent absence of such events. Anyone care to disagree?


For those suffering withdrawal symptoms through lack of halos, there's a
photo of one taken on Sunday in Leiden on the Cloud Appreciation Society
forum:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/38560...242063094/Halo

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

On 12 May, 10:36, Graham P Davis wrote:
*wrote:
I always keep an eye out for refraction and other optical
phenomena, but in spite of copious amounts of Ci and Cs
on many days in the last couple of months I have seen very
few. Today's long-lasting but rather faint halo emphasises the
recent absence of such events. Anyone care to disagree?

For those suffering withdrawal symptoms through lack of halos, there's a
photo of one taken on Sunday in Leiden on the Cloud Appreciation Society
forum:http://www.network54.com/Forum/38560...242063094/Halo

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. *E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

Here's one I took earlier www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/wpage8.html

Graham
Penzance
www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/recent.html