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Alright this chick is toast
Grab your sticks
Holding
Heat em up
Smoking
Make em hard
Ready
Letās show this preastorich bitch how we do things downtown
ā¦I donāt think the person you responded to is trolling you and Iām almost certain theyāre not a bot. I think more so people are pointing out that you say you get it but even in the Simpsons bit (which is what they were originally referring to) it also, clearly, wasnāt the aurora borealis
I've lived in Finland for 5 years and even been to lapland, and have never seen the northern lights.
You lot back home aren't allowed to see them before me.
You couldn't have been looking properly š
Last month they were visible over the entire UK and parts of Europe (as far south as Germany and the Czech Republic). They **must** have been visible in Finland when that happened.
I got a photo of them, but one of my students and his friends were in a park, and were actually scared because they didn't know what it was (when I saw **his** photo I was well pissed, because it was dramatic compared to mine - which was good enough).
š¤£
When I asked my sister if she'd seen the lights, her reply was 'No I fucking didn't. I went to bed at 9 o'clock'. She was furious she missed them.
Thing was, spectacular as they were, they were **MUCH** better when seen via a photograph.
I'd post mine if it was allowed on this sub, just to wind you up some more š
Noctoluminescent clouds, about 80km high. This is very unusual for this time of year and solar cycle, scientists think it is because of the vast amounts of water vapour that shot up into the high stratosphere from the volcano in Tonga, in January 2022 that erupted and it will take years for the water to move back down into the atmosphere. It was the biggest eruption for the last century, almost certainly the largest since Krakatoa in 1883, and the ash plume itself shot upward 57km high, and then the water vapour moved higher with the winds up there. This plume was the highest ever recorded from a satellite. It was an underwater eruption as well so the force involved is incalculable. It was heard thousands of miles away, look it up, there are many videos online about it.
They are reflecting the sun, because they are so high up they get sunlight long after sunset and before sunrise. Thatās why they are reflecting!
Fascinating right?
I'm just south of Edinburgh and usually we get a better view of noctilucent clouds than you guys - but this time I'm seeing nothing (might be some behind a low cloudbank, or it's just too light) and that has to be NLCs in that picture.
A couple of weeks ago the whole of shoreditch went yellow for about an hour, like the whole place had a sepia filter over it, the people I was with saw it too it wasnāt my eyes š
As many said could be Noctilucent Clouds but also the definition of these clouds are that are part of the mesosphere at 75-85km up in the sky. Now I donāt want to be argumentative but those clouds they seems very low to me to be classified as Noctilucent Clouds. As from the photo seems like there is quite a big part of sky above those clouds. Even if we are taking in the perspective, and the fact that could be far away to see something that is far away according to some math equations that cloud should be roughly 500miles away from that location
R_{cloud}} = R + h = 6371 + 85 = 6456 km
D^2 + R^2 = (R + h)^2
D^2 + 6371^2 = 6456^2
D^2 + 40589641 = 41637136
D^2 = 1047495
D = \sqrt{1047495} \approx 1024.5 km
Now after this said, I doubt that those are the Noctilucent Clouds. Please if someone as a different and more informed opinion please share some light on it :-))
Yep, they are probably about 500 miles away.
[More photos.](https://www.google.com.au/search?sca_esv=32906d65dcce0253&sxsrf=ADLYWIJQzjae5oEUErwqAlu6woACcd3j9w:1719617840991&q=Noctilucent+Clouds&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0COtQ6qE5snXClm_cWqGTLX_jMP5V4l2v9LemFtanifXVoSDc4z6nO25TAUUgCi_PqCbebMxH2l70BIpVN1tqaotXuhxLKSz0A7jFus2NRBE1IzXbKlu4T6U4i0S56MHfKseo1LkFYlRacP3ANIt81UHHz_xmAfwY47cvJIyr8IDpHSNdh5YyClmG0uHzxOx4K9hegDLLwym00ZuHOE4WKtb1FDJw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_8b7Uu_-GAxXM3TgGHTauDM0QtKgLegQICxAB&biw=1391&bih=833&dpr=2)
From the link you attach is always assumed that the observer is on the ground so the subject is looking up. In the case of this photo the OP is high above ground. Most of cases also we arenāt even considering light pollution. I mean is such a complex argument anyway :-) all good, just so food for thoughts.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/180220-Noctilucent-Full-scaled.jpg
https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2022/08/northernlightsandclouds.jpg
Both taken from an elevated position.
The petapixel link looks to me more like aurora also the picture is taken from ground and up. Cosmo magazine is literally photoshopped so hard and harsh they should get a better photographer team lol. OK I rest my case, whatever it is it, it is, I will go away with my doubts and logic and leave it :-) great pics by the way :-))
Iām not arguing with your maths but I read this from Royal Museums Greenwich
āRecently however, in the Northern Hemisphere noctilucent clouds have been seen at much lower latitudes than expected. Scientists believe this is a result of climate change, but it could also be due to other factors, such as rocket launches expelling particles into the atmosphere which go on to form noctilucent clouds.ā
Thanks for this quote. I think nowadays everything is āclimate changeā lol to bring down to lower stratosphere clouds that should form at 85km at -120cā¦ this means our stratosphere is colder :-) sometimes āscientistsā they should think twice before they speak, like everyone of us, again I am mister nobody just trying to put some logic into the thought process and lucky that in 2024 we can check out info put out from the scientific community and compare it. The rocket theory, they mean planes? Commercial aircraft pollutionā¦. Or rocket launches like space rocket. :-) anyway I will rest my curiosity and leave it to : it is a pretty picture thanks for sharing OP
climate change isnāt just global heating, those scientists are referring to increased methane emissions producing additional water vapour, which reinforces these types of clouds
I see, ok fair enough! I will read into this even from initial reading on https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-do-we-blame-climate-change-carbon-dioxide-when-water-vapor-much-more-common-greenhouse
Quite interesting,
Quote :
This process is so rapid that, on average, a molecule of water resides in the atmosphere for only about two weeks
This means extra water we put into the atmosphere simply doesnāt stick around long enough to alter the climate; you donāt have to worry about warming the Earth every time you boil a kettle. And thereās really no amount of water vapor we could emit that would change this
Anyway this is MIT maybe someone else has different thoughts :-)
again, climate change isnāt just global heating. the addition of water vapour from climate change and how it affects those clouds isnāt about temperature
I mean they certainly LOOK like PMCs. As in completely and utterly textbook, and there have been multiple sightings recently that look completely identical to this.
Can you explain the maths a bit more? Where did 6371 come from?
And what does them being 1000km from the point of viewing have to do with their height in the atmosphere?
I have assumed that the Earth is a perfect sphere instead of being a Geoid, in order to make the math a bit simpler.
Radius of the Earth (R): 6371 km
Height of the cloud above the surface (h): 85 km
Well if those clouds are 1024km away (640miles) this means that we have more of a clear sky, that is actually visible by the line of sight principle that counts in light reverberation and Earth curvature, that means that cloud in line of sight is actually above Dresden,Germany (assuming this photo is taken looking at pure east). Using the principle of RF that OP photo is roughly 50mt above sea level so longest line of sight achievable is 15.6 miles as per Earth curvature. I am just trying to make some sense, since we are not taking a picture from the ground up which means we can see anything above us and that would make it difficult to argue from just a photo.
Sorry to be pedantic about this, I should have left to the fact is a great photo lol but now I got down the rabbit hole. Please if someone in here is more into this explain and I would love to hear more on how this is possible:-))
Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds that naturally form in our atmosphere, and they form from ice crystals left over from micrometeorites burning up in the atmosphere or volcanic dust.
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Noctilucent Clouds.
Nice - the Met Office did a TikTok yesterday saying to look out for them
The Met Office to tiktok? š¤Ø
Yeah itās pretty good - they do like a ā5 things to know about the upcoming weekā vid weekly
TikTok is a tumour to societyā¦no thanks!
Theyāre playing Glastonbury this evening, arenāt they?
Yes, but in Somerset
very nocty. bad clouds
The secret is in the name
Possibly Noctilucent clouds, you can see them in the evening, I've only seen them around dawn.
The Gatekeeper and the Keymaster have united!
There is no Dana, only Zuul
Oh thatās a lovely singing voice
AIM FOR THE FLAT TOP
Dogs and cats! Living together!
Yes it's true, this man has no dick
Mass hysteria!
Alright this chick is toast Grab your sticks Holding Heat em up Smoking Make em hard Ready Letās show this preastorich bitch how we do things downtown
Are you a god No Then die Ray if someone asks if your a god you say yes
Ghostbusters innit :)
You require more upvotes. Gruul commands it.
Noctilucent clouds. High altitude ice formed around the contrails from meteors.
It's the coming of Sauron
# The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day?
Localized entirely within your kitchen???
Canā¦can I see it?
ā¦.no
Sorry itās the local premier inn my bad
I mean, there was in fact a G4 geomagnetic storm last night.
At this latitude?
IN THIS ECONOMY?
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
May I see it?
Uuhhmmmm...no.
r/woosh
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Stopā¦ stopā¦ heās already dead!!
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ā¦I donāt think the person you responded to is trolling you and Iām almost certain theyāre not a bot. I think more so people are pointing out that you say you get it but even in the Simpsons bit (which is what they were originally referring to) it also, clearly, wasnāt the aurora borealis
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
That meme has been legendary for the last twenty years, not just big as of a few months ago
Someone said patronuses and I canāt unsee it now
Fantastic, now I canāt unsee it. So thank you for that š
hello fellow harry hill fans šš
All hail the mysterious glow cloud
DO NOT LOOK AT THE DOG PARK DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS THAT ROAM THE DOG PARK
# They have arrived
The coming of the elder ones, as it was foretold in the script. Prepare to convert, because no god can save you anymore
Who ya gonna call?
*Doctor who theme intensifies*
A doctor WHOāS theme DOTH intensify
Verrily, i saw a blue box accompanied by the devil's own trumpets
Itās not the northern lights as the activity at 11:30 wasnāt strong enough to be seen this far south
I've lived in Finland for 5 years and even been to lapland, and have never seen the northern lights. You lot back home aren't allowed to see them before me.
Guess you missed the news last month!
Too late for that
You couldn't have been looking properly š Last month they were visible over the entire UK and parts of Europe (as far south as Germany and the Czech Republic). They **must** have been visible in Finland when that happened. I got a photo of them, but one of my students and his friends were in a park, and were actually scared because they didn't know what it was (when I saw **his** photo I was well pissed, because it was dramatic compared to mine - which was good enough).
La la I can't hear you
š¤£ When I asked my sister if she'd seen the lights, her reply was 'No I fucking didn't. I went to bed at 9 o'clock'. She was furious she missed them. Thing was, spectacular as they were, they were **MUCH** better when seen via a photograph. I'd post mine if it was allowed on this sub, just to wind you up some more š
Nope
Somebody get me the Ghostbusters
FFS the health inspector released the ghosts again
Nope.
Jellyfish Don't believe anything else
Is that the crack in the universe from the Eleventh Doctorās run? š¤
Anyone for marshmallows?
Noctoluminescent clouds, about 80km high. This is very unusual for this time of year and solar cycle, scientists think it is because of the vast amounts of water vapour that shot up into the high stratosphere from the volcano in Tonga, in January 2022 that erupted and it will take years for the water to move back down into the atmosphere. It was the biggest eruption for the last century, almost certainly the largest since Krakatoa in 1883, and the ash plume itself shot upward 57km high, and then the water vapour moved higher with the winds up there. This plume was the highest ever recorded from a satellite. It was an underwater eruption as well so the force involved is incalculable. It was heard thousands of miles away, look it up, there are many videos online about it.
Aren't clouds water vapour? whys it doing this delightful glowing business rather than being a cumulonimbus?
They are reflecting the sun, because they are so high up they get sunlight long after sunset and before sunrise. Thatās why they are reflecting! Fascinating right?
They are the highest clouds in Earth's atmosphere, located in the mesosphere at altitudes of around 76 to 85 km (249,000 to 279,000 ft).
Thatās the signal for the Stratford Soldiers that cause mayhem at Westfield
Count Binfaceās spaceship
I'm just south of Edinburgh and usually we get a better view of noctilucent clouds than you guys - but this time I'm seeing nothing (might be some behind a low cloudbank, or it's just too light) and that has to be NLCs in that picture.
I want to believe.
They are coming
I saw UFOās in Highbury and no one gave a shit
Vigoās on his way!
Side effect of pride
and so it begins ...
Thatās the pineapple ice
how yk when i pull up to the function
Apparently visible over much of England tonight, so gutted I missed it.
Gutted I missed these clouds!
Saw them from the west side of London, at around 2:10 AM
It's the skyyyyy
You mean that cloud?
I saw the same cloud last night but I am in Oxfordshire. Looked very cool and dont recall seeing anything like it before.
Somebody call the Batman.
https://www.google.com/search?q=noctilucent+clouds&client=ms-android-verizon&sca_esv=6e16df18d91a5be0&source=android-browser&ei=YLB_ZtSxLaelhbIPjdCs-AY&oq=nocti&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIgVub2N0aSoCCAAyCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBMgsQABiABBixAxiDATILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwEyCBAAGIAEGLEDMgsQLhiABBixAxiDATILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwEyCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBMgUQLhiABEj9JlDNC1jtF3ACeAGQAQCYAegNoAG7JaoBCTUtMS4xLjEuMbgBAcgBAPgBAZgCBqACmiaoAg_CAhYQLhjRAxgDGOUCGMcBGOoCGIwDGI8BwgIQEAAYAxjlAhjqAhiMAxiPAcICEBAuGAMY5QIY6gIYjAMYjwHCAgoQABiABBhDGIoFwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMYgwEYigXCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARiKBcICCxAAGIAEGJECGIoFwgIFEAAYgATCAgsQLhiABBixAxjUApgDGpIHCzIuNC0xLjAuMS4yoAeyIA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
That's a crack cloud
It's starting, the gould are here!
Oooooo nice picture
If lightning repeatedly hits the same spot, make like Tom Cruise and start sprinting the other direction.
Supacell bout to hit east London before south
Aliens
The Anunnaki have returned. ( great pic! )
Smart phone screens
The Valkyrie Ride!
Good thing we watched N.O.P.E. yesterday!!
Oh it is called the sun. Donāt worry, it usually stays behind clouds and it is mostly safe.
Isn't this how Attack the Block began?
The rift is opening
A couple of weeks ago the whole of shoreditch went yellow for about an hour, like the whole place had a sepia filter over it, the people I was with saw it too it wasnāt my eyes š
Thatās just Tower Hamlets being sucked back into the purgatorial hellscape from whence it came.
Embers of the Tory party.
That cloud looks like you took part of a frothy shallow wave on a peaceful beach pic and added it in Photoshop to the sky!
It's the EU soul transformers powering up, they've started sucking in all the innocent children to be indoctrinated.
Saw this on my flight in from Paris last night
Side comment:This is such a cool view and photo!
Damn, can see my flat in this photo š
Saw the same noctilucent cloud from slightly different angle: from Rotterdam
I get homesick for the east end but love the coast here too much to relocate š¤£
As many said could be Noctilucent Clouds but also the definition of these clouds are that are part of the mesosphere at 75-85km up in the sky. Now I donāt want to be argumentative but those clouds they seems very low to me to be classified as Noctilucent Clouds. As from the photo seems like there is quite a big part of sky above those clouds. Even if we are taking in the perspective, and the fact that could be far away to see something that is far away according to some math equations that cloud should be roughly 500miles away from that location R_{cloud}} = R + h = 6371 + 85 = 6456 km D^2 + R^2 = (R + h)^2 D^2 + 6371^2 = 6456^2 D^2 + 40589641 = 41637136 D^2 = 1047495 D = \sqrt{1047495} \approx 1024.5 km Now after this said, I doubt that those are the Noctilucent Clouds. Please if someone as a different and more informed opinion please share some light on it :-))
Yep, they are probably about 500 miles away. [More photos.](https://www.google.com.au/search?sca_esv=32906d65dcce0253&sxsrf=ADLYWIJQzjae5oEUErwqAlu6woACcd3j9w:1719617840991&q=Noctilucent+Clouds&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0COtQ6qE5snXClm_cWqGTLX_jMP5V4l2v9LemFtanifXVoSDc4z6nO25TAUUgCi_PqCbebMxH2l70BIpVN1tqaotXuhxLKSz0A7jFus2NRBE1IzXbKlu4T6U4i0S56MHfKseo1LkFYlRacP3ANIt81UHHz_xmAfwY47cvJIyr8IDpHSNdh5YyClmG0uHzxOx4K9hegDLLwym00ZuHOE4WKtb1FDJw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_8b7Uu_-GAxXM3TgGHTauDM0QtKgLegQICxAB&biw=1391&bih=833&dpr=2)
From the link you attach is always assumed that the observer is on the ground so the subject is looking up. In the case of this photo the OP is high above ground. Most of cases also we arenāt even considering light pollution. I mean is such a complex argument anyway :-) all good, just so food for thoughts.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/180220-Noctilucent-Full-scaled.jpg https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2022/08/northernlightsandclouds.jpg Both taken from an elevated position.
The petapixel link looks to me more like aurora also the picture is taken from ground and up. Cosmo magazine is literally photoshopped so hard and harsh they should get a better photographer team lol. OK I rest my case, whatever it is it, it is, I will go away with my doubts and logic and leave it :-) great pics by the way :-))
Petapixel shows Noctilucent clouds on the horizon. Also its taken from an elevated position on top of a hill.
Iām not arguing with your maths but I read this from Royal Museums Greenwich āRecently however, in the Northern Hemisphere noctilucent clouds have been seen at much lower latitudes than expected. Scientists believe this is a result of climate change, but it could also be due to other factors, such as rocket launches expelling particles into the atmosphere which go on to form noctilucent clouds.ā
Thanks for this quote. I think nowadays everything is āclimate changeā lol to bring down to lower stratosphere clouds that should form at 85km at -120cā¦ this means our stratosphere is colder :-) sometimes āscientistsā they should think twice before they speak, like everyone of us, again I am mister nobody just trying to put some logic into the thought process and lucky that in 2024 we can check out info put out from the scientific community and compare it. The rocket theory, they mean planes? Commercial aircraft pollutionā¦. Or rocket launches like space rocket. :-) anyway I will rest my curiosity and leave it to : it is a pretty picture thanks for sharing OP
climate change isnāt just global heating, those scientists are referring to increased methane emissions producing additional water vapour, which reinforces these types of clouds
I see, ok fair enough! I will read into this even from initial reading on https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-do-we-blame-climate-change-carbon-dioxide-when-water-vapor-much-more-common-greenhouse Quite interesting, Quote : This process is so rapid that, on average, a molecule of water resides in the atmosphere for only about two weeks This means extra water we put into the atmosphere simply doesnāt stick around long enough to alter the climate; you donāt have to worry about warming the Earth every time you boil a kettle. And thereās really no amount of water vapor we could emit that would change this Anyway this is MIT maybe someone else has different thoughts :-)
again, climate change isnāt just global heating. the addition of water vapour from climate change and how it affects those clouds isnāt about temperature
I mean they certainly LOOK like PMCs. As in completely and utterly textbook, and there have been multiple sightings recently that look completely identical to this. Can you explain the maths a bit more? Where did 6371 come from? And what does them being 1000km from the point of viewing have to do with their height in the atmosphere?
I have assumed that the Earth is a perfect sphere instead of being a Geoid, in order to make the math a bit simpler. Radius of the Earth (R): 6371 km Height of the cloud above the surface (h): 85 km Well if those clouds are 1024km away (640miles) this means that we have more of a clear sky, that is actually visible by the line of sight principle that counts in light reverberation and Earth curvature, that means that cloud in line of sight is actually above Dresden,Germany (assuming this photo is taken looking at pure east). Using the principle of RF that OP photo is roughly 50mt above sea level so longest line of sight achievable is 15.6 miles as per Earth curvature. I am just trying to make some sense, since we are not taking a picture from the ground up which means we can see anything above us and that would make it difficult to argue from just a photo. Sorry to be pedantic about this, I should have left to the fact is a great photo lol but now I got down the rabbit hole. Please if someone in here is more into this explain and I would love to hear more on how this is possible:-))
Ahh I see, I get it now, thank you! But that's a Polar Mesospheric Cloud. It just is.
Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds that naturally form in our atmosphere, and they form from ice crystals left over from micrometeorites burning up in the atmosphere or volcanic dust.
Galactic empire strikes
š¶Pleaseā¦.pleeeeaaase. I believe itās magicā¦magicš¶š»
itās a cloud you turnip
Thatās Bengalis been taken away š¤£
Itās a cloud you dildo
Usually a sports stadium grow-lighting their pitch