[Weather station recommendations]

The Maplin one is a clone of the same model I have - it has been working fine for a year or so and for the money you can't really go wrong.  My only criticism of it is the LCD display is hard to read - you have to bee looking at it almost straight on to read it.

 

Coupled with Cumulus its a very cheap way of getting your weather station online.

 

I looked at the Davis units, but just the USB interface was more expensive than the weather station I bought.

[What type of clouds are these?]

also:

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

great source of info about clouds... and if you join the society you get a badge

A badge! Fantastic.

Nice pics.

Welcome to the forum too.

Thanks all and thanks for the welcome too.

[What type of clouds are these?]

Lenticular, I think

http://en.wikipedia....enticular_cloud

Thanks Steve. That wikipedia link actually mentions UFOs, so definitely the right things. We often get them at this time of year and they can be spectacular.

Here are some more from December:

[What type of clouds are these?]

Can anyone tell me what type of clouds these are and how they form? They often appear above the mountains here in southern Spain looking like UFOs.

TIA