Up at 04:30 this morning to take my wife to the station & thence the airport for an early flight to Edinburgh, to help our daughter again in her post broken kneecap surgery recovery 🤕🩼
If you know me & my night owl habits, you’ll know how much fun that was 😬✌️
So have some pre-dawn clouds: I’m going back to bed 🤷♂️
It may lack the mighty rock formations of Yosemite, but you have to think that Ansel Adams would nevertheless have enjoyed photographing the wide open landscape of The Netherlands & the endlessly changing skies above it 🤷♂️🙂
“Where the clouds are made of candy floss”
– Jacky, “White Horses”, 1968
Somehow this song & the associated Yugoslav-German TV series came to mind from my early childhood as the sky was filled with mares’ tails this morning 🙂🤷♂️
Apologies for posting endlessly on this topic, but #ICYMI, here's another shot of the beautiful circumzenithal arc that graced the icy skies above our house yesterday.
This one was taken with my DSLR rather than my phone, so arguably better quality & thus worth uploading.
Here's that "mystery" ice halo from earlier today, soon after the circumzenithal arc disappeared – a short, colourful arc WNW of the Sun & concave to it.
I've measured it carefully using a later image of a sundog to calibrate the camera FOV) & it is 50º from the Sun.
That very likely means it's a fragment of a supralateral arc, formed in hexagonal ice columns.