reply to post by 888LetsRoll
I know what you mean, I've been around about the same length of time and I'd never seen anything remotely similar to the clouds I saw back in 1995
(feb - mar)?
I'd only been living in North Yorkshire a few months and was on a bus coming home from Scarborough ... it was around 2:30pm. As we were driving along
I noticed a very strange cloud formation ... this fleet of clouds was made-up by maybe 6 - 8 small (dense not fluffy) rainbow clouds following in
formation (I kid you not), behind a much bigger rainbow cloud.
In a matter of seconds everyone on the bus had their noses pressed to the window commenting on how beautiful they were ... and how no-one had ever
seen anything like it before. The busdriver was so busy trying to look at these things he almost went off the road.
They remained in view for the entire journey and beyond ... they werestill visible when I got home although not as vivid as the light was almost gone
(at least 2 hours +).
When I got home I rang my friend (who lives in the Midlands to tell her about it and she said they'd seen them there too. I found out later that
another friend who lives down in Cambridge had also seen exactly the same thing.
I bought a copy of the local paper (couple of days later), hoping to get more information about the cause etc and the explanation was 'ice crystals
in the upper atmosphere'! And a comment by the meterologist about how 'normal' this was.
My question was ... if this phenomena is so damn normal how come I've only ever seen it once in my entire life ?
The picture below was from 'THE SCARBOROUGH GAZETTE & HERALD' ... unfortunately by the time this photograph was taken the light had gone and you
can't see the entire formation ... in daylight they were truly spectacular and definately covered the full spectrum of colours.
files.abovetopsecret.com...;_cosmic_storm.jpg
I don't watch much TV and didn't see any reports myself but I did hear that the story was picked-up by some news channels.
It would be interesting to hear if anyone else in the UK remembers these clouds ... I do know that there was no follow-up earthquake involved or
anything else out of the ordinary in general at least !
Woody
Appologies, the picture link doesn't seem to be working ... I wonder if it might be because it's an oldish newspaper pic ??? If anyone has any
suggestions I'd be very grateful.
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