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01/05/2017 crepsular rays

Convective clouds build over Wanstead Flats

10/05/2017 pink cirrus

20/05/2017

24/04/2017 altocumulus

Taken on 11/11/2017 at 1600 as a cold front cleared I managed to capture the remnants of a Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud

Summer overlooking The Temple in Wanstead Park

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Looking north toward Aldersbrook. The Flats, a 186 hectare open space that is a larger than Hyde Park, can be very exposed during a thunderstorm

5/5/2017 rotation

Rooster cloud

15/06/2017 doll cloud

Sunset from Southwark Bridge

26/08/2017 sundogs

Autumn overlooking The Temple in Wanstead Park

The view across to St Paul’s from Bankside at low tide.

6/7/2017 sun and cirrus

Sunsets

It was a month with some amazing sunsets. This one, on April 30th, happened just as the sky cleared before dusk

Sunset on 31st looking across Wanstead Flats. July was a classic summer month for weather

Sunset Southwark Bridge

sunset overlooking Wanstead Flats 2nd August

With the sun lower in the sky at this time of year there’s often a great opportunity for a decent sunset

I took this yesterday evening. Windless, still and humid at ground level it was fascinating to look skyward and see the multi-level cloud continue to build into strange shapes, illuminated from below by the setting sun. A wonderful weekend for cloudspotting.

A stunning example of sunlight illuminating the underside of cloud at sunset was seen mid-month

Typical April days of sunshine and showers were in short supply. There were some stunning sunsets, including this one on the 30th

Sunset on Wanstead Flats

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Ophelia

Both the 2013 storm, left, and the 1987 storm followed a similar track as shown on these satellite pictures

On 25th a perfect curl could be seen on a depression centred off the west coast of Irleland. The rain associated with this low pressure brought the month’s highest daily rainfall total: 23.4mm (the system bringing 27.5mm) – a thoroughly miserable Bank Holiday Monday where it rained ALL day, from 6am until 9.30pm. It was yet another example of how much even frontal rainfall can vary over a small area.

This satellite picture taken on December 27th, 2014, shows the LP clearing through to leave us in clear, deep cold air

A storm passed over Shetland on January 10th

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