Look at the Sky..

[Furryanimal]

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It’s a rare “mother-of-pearl” cloud, images of which were captured by stargazers across Scotland on Sunday evening. Also known as nacreous clouds, the formations are usually only seen in extremely cold conditions above polar regions. They develop in the stratosphere, around twice as far from the Earth’s surface as normal clouds, and get their pastel colours from sunlight diffracting around tiny ice crystals. the Knowledge

 

[Warrigal]

I guess that is why I've never seen such a thing living in Sydney.

Now that I am alone at home I do find myself looking upwards at the sky more often.
I had forgotten how beautiful it is, day and night.

 

[Wayne]

Per topic freezing rain falling here.

 

[NorthernLight]

I used to live at lower latitudes. I got used to seeing fluffy clouds.

Now I live at 60° north. I see a lot of those long flat clouds, and wanted to find out why. Apparently the troposphere (the first layer of the atmosphere) is 18 km high in tropical regions, but only 6 km high near the poles.

So "higher" clouds (cirrostratus, etc.) are more visible here, because they aren't as high.