Solar Halo

22 degree solar halo

Date: 20 June 2022

Location: Bethesda

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• Solar halos
• All halo posts
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Lenticular clouds over the Glyderau

Lenticular clouds over Penrhyn Quarry at the end of the Glyderau range

Date: 22 April 2022

Location: Bethesda

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Date: 2 March 2022

Location: Bethesda

Clouds

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  Dragon

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  Negative-space Pareidolia

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  Evanescent Tendril

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  Omega

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  Cloudscape relief

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  Jellyfish

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  Trypophobia

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  Meringue

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  Proboscis Monkey

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Date

18 July 2021

Location

Fynnon Caseg, Cwm Caseg, Carneddau
SH 67931 65024; 53.16589°N, 3.97702°W

Related

Ffynnon Caseg (2011);
Ffynnon Caseg (2021)

Llanfairfechan

Llanfairfechan beach, looking towards Anglesey (left) and Puffin Island (centre), with a faint auroral glow above the horizon

Date

7 November 2017

Location

Llanfairfechan
SH 67906 75446; 53.25950°N, 3.98171°W

Information

Llanfairfechan;
More posts in the Llanfairfechan series

Flooding, Ysgol Aberconwy

Morfa Drive, Conwy

Date	2 February 2014
Location	Morfa Drive, Conwy	SH 77537 78288; 53.28735°N, 3.83851°W
Information	Flooding outside Ysgol Aberconwy in Morfa Drive, Conwy from overflowing drains at high tide. High tide at Conwy on 2 February was 8.8 metres.

 

Llanfairfechan storm surge

Llanfairfechan

Date	3 January 2014
Location	Llanfairfechan	SH 67748 75339; 53.25851°N, 3.98404°W
Information	Tides smash north Wales coast (BBC News, 3 Jan 2014); Storm Surge (Wikipedia)

 

Yr Elen Clouds (Altostratus undulatus)

Cloud formation beyond Yr Elen seen from Ysgolion Duon

Date	21 August 2011
Location	Carneddau	SH 67761 63218; 53.14962°N, 3.97882°W
Information	Looking towards Yr Elen, with Anglesey in the distance, from Ysgolion Duon, the ridge between Carnedd Dafydd and Carnedd Llewelyn in the Carneddau range of mountains.

Sun dog over Moel y Ci (‘Dog Hill’) (2)

Sun dog over Moel y Ci

Date	5 August 2011
Location	Viewed from Bethesda, Wales	SH 63219 66497; 53.17793°N, 4.04809°W
Information	A sun dog (or parhelion) is a luminous spot on one or both sides of the sun at the same height as the sun. It is formed by refraction through hexagonal plate crystals of ice in high cirrus clouds. Featured in NASA Earth Science Division’s Earth Science Picture of the Day, 12 October 2011. Sun dog over Moel y Ci (‘Dog Hill’), 1 September 2010 Sundogs, Parhelia, Mock Suns (Atmospheric Optics) Sundog formation (Atmospheric Optics)

Lenticular Clouds

Lenticular Clouds

Date	26 June 2011
Location	A5, Nant y Benglog	SH 67497 60439; 53.12459°N, 3.98161°W
Information	Normally found in the lee of a mountain, Altocumulus lenticularis is a ‘wave’ cloud created when a standing wave forms in the flow of air forced to rise up over the mountain. Water vapour in the air travelling in the wave condenses to form the cloud when it reaches the crest of the wave when the temperature there is low enough, and then evaporates again as it sinks back down into the warmer trough. Lenticular clouds remain stationary but are continuously being formed as the moisture in the air flowing through them condenses and then vapourises again. They are smooth and lens shaped, and this saucer-like appearance can lead to their being confused for UFOs. These stacked lenticular clouds were observed from the A5 road just east of Tryfan in the pass between the Carneddau and Glyderau mountain ranges. Featured in NASA Earth Science Division’s Earth Science Picture of the Day, 26 July 2011.