Interesting medium/high cloud shapes this
afternoon/evening over SW Hampshi

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Details:

wind... SSW'ly force 3.
visibility... 30km.
weather... sunny (technically partly cloudy).
cloud... 1 okta AC floccus with virga (flying angels!) at 17000ft.
1 okta CC floccus at 20000ft.
4 oktas CI fibratus (some s****atus) at 27000ft.
air temp... 20.4C.
dew point... 13.7C.
RH... 65%.
barometric pressure... 1019mb.
optical phenomena... circumzenithal arc (good colouring).
faint mock sun (to the right of the sun).

beaufort letters... bc.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire).

Sent this superb picture of the phenomenon by Steve Barter near Eastbourne
with kind permission to publish on my website:

http://www.itadvice.co.uk/weatherjack/image-big.html

Jack

cloud... 1 okta AC floccus with virga (flying angels!) at 17000ft.
1 okta CC floccus at 20000ft.
4 oktas CI fibratus (some s****atus) at 27000ft.
LIDAR ceilometer at Chilbolton seems to show returns from these clouds-
http://www.chilbolton.rl.ac.uk/weather/lidar.htm
(bottom image)
unfortunately the vertical radar is U.S
V pretty in Surrey on Sunday.
Ci uncinus observed in SE London this morning,

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david
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Jack Harrison wrote:
Sent this superb picture of the phenomenon by Steve Barter near
Eastbourne with kind permission to publish on my website:

http://www.itadvice.co.uk/weatherjack/image-big.html

Jack

That's what we had here in Folkestone yesterday. I explained it as ice
crystals falling out of the bottom of the clouds. I'm sure that's what I
read in here a while ago...

Couldn't think of the damn name for the things though.....

Les


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