For years I've been struggling to classify this cloud phenomena that looked like everything being pulled towards a single area. If I squint a little bit it reminds me vaguely of a cavum (aka a fallstreak hole) where a chain reaction of freezing is set off in one portion of a cloud layer and a hole forms in the layer as all of the moisture starts to get pulled away and fall below. But that phenomena usually produces a hole in the layer with crisper edges than this. And usually it produces an area in the middle that looks more streaky, like virga.
This was shot 5 minutes after the previous image, and I also don't know what to make of this small ridge of clouds that look vaguely like small mammatus formations. Again, that's a species of cloud that usually presents very differently in much larger groups as part of storm clouds. Not a tiny little ridge of instability in what is otherwise a very stable cloud formation.
What the heckin' heck is that light? Seriously... what is it? I mean consider how bright those radio antenna warning lights must be. That light on the ground is waaaay brighter. There is a soccer field in that direction that sometimes gets illuminated in the early morning, but that's several lights, not one.
I don't think it was a building fire either; it wasn't flickering and there was no smoke. And 20 minutes later it just switched off, and I never saw it again. UFO??
This image and the next are both the light of DC illuminating low-hanging cloud cover. I can't seem to find a name for this, but it's so common it feels like it should have a name. I saw it all the time.
Another example of the light from DC illuminating the cloud cover. AI keeps trying to tell me that this is "skyglow" aka light contamination, but I don't think it's understanding my question. Light contamination would be city light illuminating ubiquitous particulate matter. This is city light illuminating cloud cover. If it doesn't already, I think it should have its own name.
I'm honestly not sure if these horizontal lines are technically stratus cloud layers or some other atmospheric phenomena...
These laysers are so perfectly uniform it makes me think that they're caused more by differences between atmospheric layers...
See here, when the sun finally comes up it strikes me more like the sun shining *through* a hazy - and slightly reflective - medium, such as haze composed of ice crystals. But what do you call that if it doesn't actually form a fully opaque cloud? It happens so often it feels like it should have a name other than "haze", because that conjurs a very different picture in my head.
