One year ago during new year's eve nature showed a special light show of its own for us - unique phenomena called polar stratospheric clouds, Norway [OC] [1200x1800]
How rare are these clouds supposed to be? I see them almost weekly in the UK. Not at that level of brightness or colourfulness though, very nice photo. Looks stunning.
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PropellerLegs on January 2nd, 2018 at 13:32 UTC »
How rare are these clouds supposed to be? I see them almost weekly in the UK. Not at that level of brightness or colourfulness though, very nice photo. Looks stunning.
Edit: Totally different things
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_iridescence
SimilarLee on January 2nd, 2018 at 15:33 UTC »
These are called polar stratospheric clouds, and are frequently discussed on spaceweather.com (but not right now). Atmospheric Optics provides another page on the topic (linked from Space Weather).
Failedmysanityroll on January 2nd, 2018 at 16:05 UTC »
Picture is amazing. I would be scared of some sort of creature crawling up out of the depths of that black water.