Sky Watch Friday - Aerial Antics

The cloudscapes have been so beautiful every day this week, it makes it hard to choose from the dozens of photo's I have taken.  But on the 26th we had a really gorgeous day, after a week or more of stormy weather, a gorgeous blue sky, lots of different types of Cirrus, and the sky became an aerial playground with both commercial traffic and fighter planes.  So this week it is Contrails and Cirrus.
                                        

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 On the 27th a Microlite appears overhead

 What is wrong with this pic - taken at High Noon on the 28th.

It is the bluest blue sky and CLOUDLESS, almost unheard of here.

My darling hubby suggests those of you with children should

print this one out and let the children decorate it..!

And finally, on the 27th. another beautiful Sunset



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Sky Watch Friday - Inconstantia

My chariot

The time for preparing for another Sky Watch seems to have come round again rather quickly, and having had my computer crash two weeks ago has not made life any easier.  I am having to share a computer at the moment, but thankfully I have a flash drive which has been a real help, a lot of my photo's are already on it, and I can download the latest ones to it.  This past week has seen big changes, from blue skies, cirrus and cumulus to black storm clouds and lightning, to dramatic and gorgeous sunsets.  Unfortunately I didn't capture any lightning.  Click to enlarge photo's.

 Banks of Cumulus over Swinton - 17.09.11

 Cumulus over the Vale of Pickering - 17.09.11

 The Sun going down on the 18th.

 Oily sky over Swinton Sports Centre - 19.09.11

 #5 in Sunset series for the evening of the 20.09.11

 #8 in Sunset series - 20.09.11

 #16 in Sunset series - 20.09.11

Sky over Pickering Castle Curtain Wall today 22.09.11

 More photo's of Pickering Castle ruins on

 'Jackie's Random Pics blog'

next week on Our World Tuesday

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Sky Watch Friday - Variations

A varied selection of photo's taken over the past two months, click on photo's to enlarge.

 Stratocumulus

 Man cloud walking

 Big Bird on Cloud

 Wings of Cirrus

 Altocumulus and bird

 Zoomed in on bird in previous photo

 Hazy Sun seen through Altostratus

 Sunset reflections in greenhouse glass

A glorious Sunset is a beautiful end to the day

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Sky Watch Friday - Stormy Skies

It has been a very wet and windy week here, with some spectacular dark rain clouds  mixed with patches of beautiful blue revealing high Cirrocumulus.  All the photo's here were taken from the road running through our village within the space of no more than 10 minutes.  Click on photo's to enlarge.

 An eye in the sky

 Clouds rolling in from the South

 Looking to the South-West

 Looking a little threatening

 but beautiful to the North

 the Sun makes an attempt to break through

 but it is getting darker by the minute

Rain drops are falling on my head,

time to scarper!

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More beautiful clouds, mainly of the Cirrus varieties, they paint some gorgeous patterns across our skies.  Though the first photo is one my husband took about four years ago, of an oval ring cloud, I don't know if it was the remains of a 'fall streak' or 'hole punch' cloud.

Fallstreak Hole...Maybe?



Cumulus over Asda




Cirrus uncinus feathers




Cumulus and Cirrus over Malton




Sun about to set over the village




Sunset in Black and White




Beautiful Cirrus over Swinton




Sun shining through black rain cloud




And what happened here! - I caught the sun in the lens and WOW ' Cirrus and Cumulus fractus in glorious technicolour.  Weird, but I rather like it.

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