A heads up . . .

[Ian D J]

. . . if you're into dawn/dusk red sky photography.
Now I may be totally wrong on this but it looks like the weather set up may be ideal for some decent red skies at sunrise and sunset. It's just that the next few days will see to variable stratocumulus (flattened mid-layer cumulus which is often patchy in nature) and clear slots almost anywhere in the UK (the further the south and east you are, the more variable and broken the cloud cover will be) and my gut instincts (not terribly scientific I know) is telling me it should make for some decent red sky photography.
Plus our weather will have a long fetch all the way in from the distant part of the Atlantic while at the same time a high pressure system will be influencing our weather and that will produce the variable layers of medium high clouds and a change in the general humidity in the air. Alll that will be ideal for red skies.
Like I said, I could be wrong on this so I'm not going to be held responsible for tired eyes due to getting up at a silly o-clock just to get that ideal red sky photograph. Evenings should be good for it, though!
Just a thought and one I'm sticking my neck out for.

 

[donut]

cheer Ian, im out saturday with camera ,,,( north kent ) if it happens ,do you think the conditions will last until then?

 

[jerry12953]

Thanks....I'm heading down to Pembrokeshire so we'll see what happens....

 

[sepulchre]

I think you might be right Ian, I was up at some silly o'clock this morning with my wee girl and the sky was an amazing colour! I didn’t get any shots though unfortunately

 

[Yv]

cheer Ian, im out saturday with camera ,,,( north kent ) if it happens ,do you think the conditions will last until then?

ditto, hope it holds

 

[hepburn]

Thanks for the tip off Ian. Let's hope it holds good

 

[Dark Star]

Nice one Ian Thanks for the heads up!

Looks like shepherds will be both delighted and warned

 

[Cranky]

Quit glad I signed for working at 6 in the morning now, just have to get up half an hour earlier than planned

 

[donut]

Quit glad I signed for working at 6 in the morning now, just have to get up half an hour earlier than planned

bit of a lay in then ?

 

[Ian D J]

cheer Ian, im out saturday with camera ,,,( north kent ) if it happens ,do you think the conditions will last until then?

I believe the weather set up conductive to good coloured sunrises and sunset looks set to last for at least a week.
What's happening is that an "Azore" high pressure is set to settle to the south of the UK. An "Azore high is a semi-permanent high pressure system that is most always located over the Arozes, but once in a while a bit breaks off and heads towards the north east where the UK is. It is that what brings warmer settled weather to England and Wales (Scotland looks set to remain changeable and unsettled).
But the wind will have a long fetch all the way in from the Altantic, and that kind of set up which produces variable humidity and temperature layers in the atmosphere over the UK is what usually gives us our colourful sunrises and sunsets.

And to really prove my point, after I dropped off my opening post at 5 am this morning, I then left for work . . . and as I was passing by Lyminge, I captured this using my Fuji S5600 . . .

Mind you, the colours was very short lived (probably only about ten minutes) but I'd say it had provided a good start to my prediction.

 

[hellogoodbye]

We had a gorgeous sunset this evening!

 

[donut]

cheers Ian ,,,,,,,up early in the morning then

 

[clud17]

Thanks mate, and how cool to have a resident weatherman on the forum, lets hope your predictions are good.

 

[DTM]

Yep, we got a little bit of red last night, nothing I managed to capture all that well but hopefully we'll have another shot.

 

[hepburn]

Thanks mate, and how cool to have a resident weatherman on the forum, lets hope your predictions are good.

Ian's usually pretty good with his predictions. I'm certainly an avid fan of them and have rarely been let down. And in this neck of the woods (Suffolk) this is what I captured last night.

Cheers Ian