Mother-of-pearl clouds

André gave us this picture which is the view of Oslo, seen from Sinsen, at Christmas Eve. As you can see there was some beautiful Mother-of-pearl clouds that night! :o)

Photo by: André

Mother-of-pearl clouds II

Another picture of mother-of-pearl clouds! They came back this afternoon,
bigger and more colorful than yesterday! This picture is taken from the roof of Oslo Spektrum.

Photo: by Stormel

Mother-of-pearl clouds

This afternoon another spectacular view appeared in the sky....mother-of-pearl clouds! They were beautiful!! :o)

A website called Atmospheric Optics gave me the following information about the clouds:

"Nacreous clouds, sometimes called mother-of-pearl clouds, are rare but once seen are never forgotten. They are mostly visible within two hours after sunset or before dawn when they blaze unbelievably bright with vivid and slowly shifting iridescent colours. They are filmy sheets slowly curling and uncurling, stretching and contracting in the semi-dark sky....read more"

Remember the spectacular view I showed you on December 17th? The atmospheric optics-site gives us an explanation of this too...it turns out to be a ice halo whith sundogs! :o)

Photo: by Stormel

Spectacular view

Yesterday this strange, but beautiful and spectacular view suddenly appeared in the sky. I guess it was the fog, the sun, the cold, and the easy snow all together that made this special light. It was really cool! :o)

Photo: by Stormel