Admin1 took this lovely picture of iridescent morning cirrus
Clouds of the Day: Cumulus plus cirrus
Still waiting for some decent sunshine
Critters of the Day: Snails
Our garden is overrun with billions of these bastards, eating everything in sight and breeding like crazy. They love the wet weather. But the iridescent slime is quite interesting.
Weather of the Day: Rain, then more rain
30mm of rain in one day, and less than 1kWh from the panels. What a dreadful summer.
Weather of the Day: Rain, then sun
Blue skies and afternoon sun refracted through raindrops
Cloud of the Day: Steam
Critter of the Day: Nanofrog
Grown from the tadpoles of 12 May
Flowers of the Day: Municipal display
A lonely little petunia in a union patchCloud of the Day: Cumulus
Cloud of the Night: Noctilucent
Electric blue noctilucent clouds to the north, at about 12:30am. First sighting this year.
Crowd of the Day: Olympic Torch Relay
Hundreds of people gathered at the end of our street to celebrate Admin1’s birthday, though their view was somewhat spoilt by a procession of police cars, massive wagons filled with corporate cheerleaders for CocaCola, Samsung and LloydsTSB, and a woman in white holding aloft a massive lighter for Admin1’s birthday cake candles
Weather of the Day: Rain
Sky of the Day: Halo
See Atmospheric Optics for details.
Clouds of the Day: Cumulus, Cirrus, Contrails
Things we saw today but didn’t photograph: (a) a red kite and (b) a sundog in a curly cirrus cloud, looking like a rainbow treble clef
Weather of the Day: Sunshine, briefly
A passing gap in the endless procession of rain clouds. Just when the solar panels should be pumping, they are dribbling
Critters of the Day: Bees
Sky of the Evening: Sunset
Sky of the Morning: Transit of Venus
Sadly we missed the last transit this century due to clouds, but here is a picture we took of the first one this century, in 2004.
Cloud of the Evening: Cumulus
Cloud of the Day: Nimbostratus
Cloud of the Day: Back to the Stratus
Cloud of the Day: Cumulus
Cloud of the Day: Lenticularis
Cloud of the Day: Cumulus fractus
Flower of the Day: Poppy
