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silhouette of tops of rounded hills along the bottom of the picture.Thick, undulating and rolling clouds above, alternating in colour from white to deep purple. Ragged, patchy white cloud to the right of the picture and a patch of light-blue sky in the bottom left-hand corner of the picture.
These beautiful altocumulus lenticularis clouds made an impression on Peter Brand when they appeared over Tebar in the Murcia region of southern Spain. The picture was taken on the evening of 4th November.
silhouette of gently rolling hills and a tree along the bottom of the picture. Wedge of blue sky immediately above, with wider end towards the left-hand side of the picture. Bubbling white and grey clouds above, gradually becoming darker towards the top right-hand corner of the image.
After a week of thunderstorms, the residents of Xylofagou in Cyprus were treated to a stunning view of mammatus clouds on the evening of 1st November. Picture taken by Justin Cooper.
top edges of thin trees along the bottom of the picture. Hazy, wispy white clouds above with an upside-down rainbow towards the top right-hand section of the image. Blue sky towards the top of the picture.
Circumzenithal arcs are caused by light reflecting from ice crystals. Philip Harriss spotted this effect over Bramdean in Hampshire on 2nd November.
silhouette of city with tall buildings at the bottom of the picture, golden sky above with setting sun towards the left of the picture. Dark, sepia-coloured, wispy clouds above gradually darkening to a deep brown towards the top of the picture.
The golden light of sunset reflected dramatically against the altocumulus and cirrus clouds over Canary Wharf in London on 4th November. Photographed by Ian Docwra.
white house with bright red roof tiles and a pale-green fence along the right-hand wall towards the bottom left-hand corner of the picture, dark and light green trees to the right. Rainbow above arching to the left hand side of the picture, with a fainter version parallel to it and another faint rainbow running at a different angle to the other two rainbows in between. Dark-grey sky behind the rainbows.
The faint, non-parallel rainbow is likely to have been caused by light refracting from the clouds at a different angle to the double rainbow on either side. Jonathan Wheeler spotted this unusual effect over Findhorn, Moray on 5th November.
silhouette of grass tips in bottom left-hand corner. White fluffy, wispy clouds scattered across the picture above, with thick dark-blue and dark-grey clouds behind. Thin patch of white sky towards the left centre of the picture.
As the altostratus clouds, which brought rain to Preston in Lancashire, cleared away, the more delicate-looking cumulus clouds stood out in the evening sky. Catherine Ainscough took this picture as she went for a walk on 1st November.
evening view of green fields in the foreground, line of trees in the distance and white boiling clouds in the far distance on the horizon. Dark clouds immediately above with fluffy balls of cloud towards the centre of the picture. Streaks of pink clouds leading towards the top right-hand corner, deep-blue sky towards the top left-hand corner and pale pink sky towards the right edge of the picture.
It was a gentle end to the day at Itchenor Harbour in West Sussex, with only a few cumulus clouds in the sky. Photographed by Barrie Downie on 4th November.
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