scene_again | The afterglow - February 18th 2008 (Reply)

Not quite a sunset sequence this, but sort of! I've been meaning to post these for some time and, now that I have discovered how to drag these across from Flickr, it's easy to do so. So here are a very large number of evening sky pictures! You have been warned!

Leaving work on 18 February, I noticed that there was a most unusual sky colour over the buildings next to my office.

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Intrigued, I drove out of the town a little way to where I could see more of the sky and the horizon and found the view looking like this -

This wasn't quite a sunset, I couldn't see the sun, just the colour in the clouds. So I carried on snapping for the next twenty minutes or so and these were the results.

And this sequence was taken from a slightly different view:

So, in the space of twenty minutes, I was treated to this fantastic lightshow! It was worth getting cold hands and feet for standing in a muddy verge! It felt like Mother Nature putting on a Birthday display for me!
I wasn't the only one to see it, of course, (though I may just have taken most pictures!) - someone later set up a community on Flickr and invited people to submit pictures of this and the sunrise the same day - which I hadn't spotted as being anything out of the ordinary. Quite a lot of the country and especially the West Country had this spectacular, it seems and there was a scientific explanation in the Times next day! Something to do with dry and cold!
The Flickr community is here, just in case anyone actually wants to see more pictures of this! http://flickr.com/groups/afterglow/pool/ Some lovely ones of the pier and sea at Aberystwyth, if you can be tempted to peek!