I thought I'd post some shots that I captured last summer. Some are from Finland, some from Iceland and some from between. :-D

Hey Jari,

Super set! Love the glories and those cheeky little K-H's!!

Regards,

Alec

http://theboltonhalotriangle.blogspot.com/

http://cumulusatlanticus.blogspot.com/

http://thecrowinstability.blogspot.com/

Thanks Alec, hehe, cheeky little KHs indeed. I almost missed them. :-D

What a treat!, Thanks Jari for sharing the pictures.

Superb sequence Jari - thanks for posting all those!

Hi Jari,

Beautiful photographs...keep posting them!!!!

http://geordiebooker.blogspot.com/

Thanks everybody!

I cannot resist the temptation to post these from this morning:







These waves were hanging really low in the sky, like 100 meters or so. I first thought they were way higher but observing from a moving car revealed their low altitude. So these are... stratus fractus undulatus? Err...

As impressive as ever, Jari, thank you.

But I am surprised in the last one at 'fractus' (St fra un); I would have settled for St un. I checked out ICA Vol II and St fra is indeed very ragged, 'irregular ragged shreds' says Vol 1.

Alec, I noticed in Vol II two pictures of contrails from R.A.F. Farnborough in 1944, 1945, and they are also described in Vol I, so you are pukka.

P.S. Jari, Alec is fairly new to the forum but I judge he would be very interested in your website (which you have posted a link to in the past) as he does not restrict himself to contrails.

Hi H,

Thank you for your thoughtfulness. Much appreciated. Even though Jari and I have never corresponded, I am actually quite familiar with his website and work. At the risk of embarrassing him hugely, Jari is one of the leading lights in the halo world at present. The Finnish guys are generally spoken about in hushed tones....

Whisperingly yours,

A

http://theboltonhalotriangle.blogspot.com/

http://cumulusatlanticus.blogspot.com/

http://thecrowinstability.blogspot.com/

Jari. I agree, witnessing a display like that of Statocumulus Undulatus is a WOW event. They are just so different. Not fluffy, very wing like and travel like birds in a flock. Seagul-ish I suppose, but still, I am awe struck by these clouds as if they were lenticular or asperatus. I did a recent spred on these and have some even more recent B&W work on them, to be posted in near future. In any case, I find them very camera friendly due to form and usual darkness or contrast to what is around them. I really like these clouds because they are so much fun with camera. I hope there is many more in your and every one else's future.

I really must complain about all these wonderful cloud photos. Every time I sit down at my computer to do some work, check emails etc., I find myself inexorably drawn to check the posts on the cloud forum and then I get nothing else done!!

Anita, North Cumbria, UK

I'm with you there, Anita! I should be marking English books but somehow have managed to 'lose' half an hour browsing through comments and photos on this Forum instead. And - what a shame - it's time for bed now instead of more marking!

But what wonderful photographs we've been treated to recently - it would be rude not to accord them the time they deserve.......

....So guess what was waiting for me at sunrise this morning?...Yeppers, a field of statocumulus stratiformis undulatus pushing off north of a main body of stratiformis. And yes Gini, there is no CGI involved here except for the processing of the recorded image...wait a minute, anyway, I hope you don't mind Jari for my posting of these pics from this morning in your thread. A coincidence like this is fun and should be celebrated imho..or is it magic,,or are they the same? In any case, I Luv the stratocumulus stratiformis undulatus. Also observed while taking in the undulatus, was a pair of geese flying almost directly over me..I survived unscathed, and a pair of crow fighting with each other mid air, making quite the racket...all part of a weird ,wonderful magical sunrise. Then I went back to work.

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Thanks everybody!

Alec, oh my God, that was just hilarious! Hehe, I laughed so hard that I almost spilled coffee on my ages old secret halo society robe (with a low sun upper tangent arc like hood). ;-D ;-D

Hey Mike, no worries, post as many pics as you want. So, do we classify these as stratocumulus undulatus or stratus undulatus? Classification can sometimes be very tricky.

I saw these clouds again this morning plus a diamond dust sun pillar & parhelia. Last night there was diamond dust around the whole city, I will post pics later. It has been a nice and chilly -18 to -24 degrees Celsius and it is getting even colder so one has to be alert night and day.

I too love to browse beautiful cloud photos at every opportunity. I think it makes me a better person. Cloudspotters are benign creatures. :-D

Well, what do you know, today we got more of these:



Also loads of diamond dust in the air. Here's a lower pillar in separate glints:



This one I shot yesterday when coming home from work:



Jari

Hi Jari,

Lol! Ditch the robe with mystical halo symbols and get yourself an Hawaiian specimen. As you already see the rare halos, this will guarantee you see the ULTRA rare ones on a frequent basis!

Best,

Alec

http://theboltonhalotriangle.blogspot.com/

http://cumulusatlanticus.blogspot.com/

http://thecrowinstability.blogspot.com/

J..The one difference between stratus and strato is the elevation. Stratus going all the way to ground level and stratocumulus as low as 2000 feet, puts your undulatus into possible stratus. The ones I shot ,,are in the higher 2000ft and up elevation of stratocumulus. Heres a shot taken this afternoon, of even higher, altostratus undulatus 6.5k ft and up, but these appear to be a different bird altogether.
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Right, so Stratus undulatus they are. I originally added the fractus a bit tongue in cheek (hence the ...errr part).

But the suggestion of Stratocumulus in this thread was a surprise to me and resulted in a nice exchange of ideas. I love it, that's what CAS is for, right?

Here's a link to my own weather station:

http://www.weatherlink.com/user/aitoniemi/index.php?view=summary&headers=1

(The anemometer has frozen and is under a thick cover of snow. Come the weekend I will try and free it).

Right now we're at -22 and it is getting colder. Very nice. I would shoot the whole night but have loads of work tomorrow and need to prepare. It's a major bummer. Would rather be out there.

Jari