h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sorry folks I'm not a UFO, nor am I a modern drone unit, so turn your mobile-phone cameras off.
I'm just looking for something to eat that you humans dump rather than dispose of properly!

Facilitating cloud formation, the vapor trail is a bonus, like the bird it gives the image a big

Thanks for shearing

Lovely cloudscape! My eye is drawn to the grey thicker clouds, lower left of frame, with all the feathery bits flying out of them.

Cloud patterns are amazing aren't they? And totally unique. Moments in time. No cloud pattern can ever appear twice. Or can it?? No, it can't replicate exactly, cos its made of clouds. I'm going to muse on this.

End of very philosophical moment.

I like cloud patterns too. I think cactuscafe is right - they're all different.

And the bird must be pretty big, I think. A buzzard, perhaps.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/clouds/cloud-names-classifications

http://scied.ucar.edu/webweather/clouds/cloud-types

maybe helpful ?

Thanks. I could become a cloudologist.

Or a nephelomancer.

Thanks everyone

I checked the original photo and zooming in I see the bird is probably a Herring Gull

I like the contrast of the clouds, too, with the wispy stratocumulus framing the flock of cirrocumulus

That's my blue rubber duck there in the clouds. Big isn't it?

Cloudscapes are not only unique in time, they are also depending on the viewer's standpoint

That is a profound observation, Caiman. Cloud experiences are therefore unique and possibly subjective.