Chronic diffuse cloud and haze over England in 2023 and 2024
by Stephen Hewitt
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Diffuse cloud with hair-like protrusions over Cambridge in the early afternoon on 4 May 2024. Photographed from Burleigh Street.Diffuse cloud and aircraft condensation trails in the sky over Devon near Totnes, 12 April 2024The sun shining through diffuse cloud over London, 12 April 2024.A long strip of cloud against a sky of patches of diffuse cloud seen from Stourbridge Common, Cambridge, 14 April 2024. Parts of the cloud strip give the impression of bristles, pointing outwards perpendicular to its length. The sky lower down towards the horizon is a uniform white. The continuation of this cloud strip is in the next photograph.Another section of the strip of cloud in the previous photograph at Stourbridge Common, Cambridge, 14 April 2024.The same strip of cloud as the previous two photographs at Stourbridge Common, Cambridge, 14 April 2024. Here more of its length has been captured using so-called “panoramic” mode, meaning the camera is panned round during the shot.15 May 2024. What in Cornwall at least since June 2023 is a familiar sight, the sun shining through diffuse hazy cloud. The inverted rainbow effect near the bottom of the picture was visible without a camera and so is not an artefact of the camera. A detailed view of the rainbow is in the next photograph.What looks like a small inverted rainbow in the sky around the sun shining through haze in Cornwall on 15 May 2024. This image is cropped from the previous photograph.A Cornish sunset criss-crossed with persistent aircraft condensation trails after a day of fog lasting well into the afternoon despite temperatures of around 24°C, 5 September 2023.
