Nacreous Clouds

Oh no, thats a frightening reply! Go away CFCs and take your nacreous clouds with you!

Tej, I only want the CFCs to go away, the nacreous clouds are beautiful; they can stay.

They're back!!!

This from the BAA...

The upper atmospheric conditions that gave rise to the display of stratospheric clouds at the beginning of February look set to return at the end of the month. Last time whilst some of the clouds showed the "nacreous" or "mother-of-pearl" forms, the majority appeared like thin stratocumulus, a normal form of quiet weather cloud. The difference however was that the stratospheric clouds remained relatively bright long after normal stratocumulus would have turned dark at sunset. The clouds might be seen from northern Scotland from February 27, and later from southern England until perhaps March 1. The current forecast weather conditions favour Scotland seeing the clouds before sunrise on February 28, with southern England seeing them after sunset the same day. The rest of the time it may be too cloudy with lower level clouds.

There are plenty of pictures of the clouds on the web, eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-35462395 though virtually all these show the spectacularly coloured form, rather than the generally colourless diffuse form.

So, let's hope for some clear skies over the weekend. Sunday looks like the best bet. Anyone fancy popping out to Blackheath?

I'll join you, Mike!  Fingers crossed for clouds....cant believe I just said that.

Sadly, i cant join you, mike as so many damn trains are not running today making my journey too long from Kingston (cricket training) and missing the sunset 🙁

Sadly, i cant join you, mike as so many damn trains are not running today making my journey too long from Kingston (cricket training) and missing the sunset

Hopefully you'll get to see the sunset from somewhere! I'm going to pop out and take a look for an hour or so. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I going to have a serious falling out with these bleedin' nacreous clouds.

Didn't see any 🙁

I going to have a serious falling out with these bleedin’ nacreous clouds. Didn’t see any

Shame on those nacreous clouds, ignoring your loyalty!  <span style="line-height: 1.5;">I got off at Clapham Common, which was as best a location I thought to get off at on the way home, quickly bought a coffee, headed to the park and  looked up for awhile.  I missed the sunset itself, was partly cloudy then thick clouds came over but got partly cloudy again.  Then got too dark and I got bored, especially after my coffee finished.  </span>

Well at least our Ozone layer is spared any grief? 🙂