Sunset Mammatus And Evening Noctilucent

[sunny starry skies]

A few photos from yesterday evening, which was one of the most interesting weather-wise of the year for Edinburgh. It makes a mockery of my comment about a grim boring day I posted in "Todays weather"...

First of all, we had a superb thunderstorm during my football match and on the way home. The storm was just clearing northwards as I got home, and while the views were excellent I didn't have my camera. Frogesque has some nice shots of the mammatus taken just north of me in his thread. At sunset, once I had got myself dried out, I took these photos out of my living room window:

It was beautiful! It's not smoke, but the ethereal shapes are the sunset catching parts of the mammatus clouds.

Later in the evening there was a great display of noctilucent clouds above these same thunderstorm clouds. I've posted more pictures on the noctilucent clouds page:

Edinburgh with noctilucent clouds and departing cumulonimbus anvils.

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[Evening thunder]

Some stunning pics there, Especially the Noctilucent clouds one which is very atmospheric and is a fantastic shot IMO. :blink:

[frogesque]

Superb pics - and thanks for the kind comments

We definately had a very interesting time weatherwise yesterday with a fine sunny morning, thunderstorms and torrential rain then ending the day with a beautifull display of NLCs. All we needed was some snow :blink:

[Cookie]

really stunning images mate

[Kent Snow]

A cracking set of photos. Thanks for sharing!

[SteveB]

Great photos.