Very pretty sun halo!

20 years ago to the day! A truly incredible example of how dangerous supercells & strong tornadoes can develop even here. It's very lucky imo that this beast didn't kill anyone, few people impacted likely knew it was even a risk, let alone taking the precautions needed for an EF~3 beast!

I sadly wasn't able to catch any of the funnel clouds people reported a couple of days ago, but yesterday I finally caught another thunderstorm - my 2nd this year! It had a pretty impressive updraft structure as well, it almost looks like it was broadly rotating 👀 #photography #timelapse

Incredible!

Brilliant noctilucent clouds on a late night drive! These uncommon, enigmatic clouds are only found fairly close to the poles around the summer solstice, and are (by far) the highest clouds in the sky! They shine electric-blue as due to Earth's curvature, the Sun hasn't set up there!

Came across the best thing today in a random charity shop! His name is Willow, and he's an old boy who can't walk, but his owners regularly take him out to see the world :)

The summer of 1976 is repeatedly used by.. people.. to somehow discredit climate change or hot summer weather. Here are the global temperatures from 1976 compared with 2024. In 76, the UK was a warm anomaly on a much cooler planet. Today? The entire planet is warmer.

Beefy storm day ahead down South, stay safe if you're in the path! And if you're chasing, try to stay out of the hail cores 😂 Of course this happens while I have a broken ankle & can't drive 🙃 Ah well, maybe next time

Keep your eyes out everyone! This storm could put on a good show tonight! (Same for us in the UK too!)

A timelapse of some pretty lenticular clouds I caught yesterday! These unusual clouds can sometimes look like flying saucers, and are easy to tell from other clouds by the fact they don't move with the wind! They're formed by standing waves resulting from hills :) #photography #nature #clouds

They're quite far from me but some nice storms are going up! :) #Storm #Photography

Exciting stuff, but currently too far South for me! Anyone in the areas of interest should keep an eye out for some good storms!

Why must the fun storms always be too far away 😔

Today's pretty storm! I sadly wasn't able to get to the larger cell before it fizzled, but as it faded a couple of smaller storms popped up nearby! This also gave me my first lightning of the year :) #storm #thunder #photography #nature

Exciting! I hope I see a good show!

11 years ago today I caught this "whale's mouth" effect in the outflow region of a beefy incoming thunderstorm! I was only a teen then but I remember this storm very fondly as one of the first I really took the time to photograph. Good times! (Ground cropped to avoid doxxing) #photography #storm

Can you see a faint shimmering white line in the clouds, just above the centre of the frame? This is a faint fragment of a parhelic circle! This elusive ice-halo is caused by refraction through ice crystals! It's hard to distinguish from cloud, but timelapses can give it away as it remains fixed!

Storm potential on Thursday? The models seem divided atm (ICON-EU predicts no rain, GFS predicts a line). I hope we get something though, I haven't heard the sound of thunder since last September!

The Peak District always has such incredible views 😌 This was taken on a walk a couple of days ago, when the weather was almost like summer! #photography #nature #england #peakdistrict

Stunning view of Venus so close to solar conjunction! It's a shame the crescent phase is so brief, only lasting a couple of months every couple of years, because it's so amazing to see the planet as a delicate crescent :)

Potosi, MO #tornado from a post on X.

Incredible

Terrifying day (and night) for powerful tornadoes, stay safe everyone across the pond!

We have a bigger chomp! #eclipse #photography #astronomy

The eclipse has begun, and my totally-not-Frankensteinian setup of a good camera plus an old solar filter I used with my first telescope is capturing every moment!

Odd slowly moving light in the sky tonight - plane or satellite with atmospheric halo effect? #photography #astro

Seen a ton of photos of this impressive sight! It's caused by the fuel of a SpaceX launch interacting with the upper atmosphere :) I'm not sure why it took that spiral shape though. As usual, I missed it 🙃 Ah well, maybe next time 😅 #Space #Astronomy

First real storm of the year! Sadly I didn't get any of the thunder, but drove out a little to try and put myself in a kink in the storm line, it didn't give me anything too impressive but there was a bit of turbulent cloud :) Apparently it caused flash floods though sadly

Didn't catch this lunar eclipse due to a combination of it being low in the sky & cloudy, so instead here's my first & best ever eclipse capture - the 'Super Blood Moon' eclipse of 2015! It was a truly unforgettable night, and well worth being exhausted at school the next day 😅 #Photography

Keep your eyes out if it's clear! Below are the UK times from timeanddate :) The total eclipse might baaarely be visible from the UK, but it'll be tough. Even more so if there's cloud 😅

It's been a beautiful day of convective, stormy showers! Sadly no lightning (except apparently a brief bit in London) but some pretty anvils! This kind of weather is always a fun part of early Spring, when cooler air combines with a warming Sun to produce small showers :) #Photography #Storm

Sorry I haven't been active for a while, but if you need something to look out for, for the next few days all 7 non-Earth planets are visible in the sky *at once* during the early evening! Some are definitely easier than others, but it's still an impressive alignment!

This is one of the most infuriatingly stupid and batsh!t insane ideas I've seen in recent times, and it's frustrating for me too as a rare UK chaser-ish who wants to go to America & see the big stuff. Storm chasers are integral to tornado warnings, and risk their lives for free. They deserve better

Everyone in Ireland and Northern England/Scotland especially needs to really take this one seriously, it's gonna be something quite incredible. Don't take any unnecessary journeys, make sure your manager doesn't drag you into work, and stay safe out there!

It's not very often you see the entire UK covered in weather warnings at once! The amber is a maximum-impact one as well, meaning it could turn red if the forecast fully verifies :O Stay safe everyone! This could be quite a day!

The fact Webb can resolve distant galaxies behind a *globular cluster* is actually insane. Humanity can do some incredible things when we put our minds to it!

As a hobbyist photographer I cannot tell you how exciting it is to see a competitor app to Instagram, even before Zuckerberg's recent... umm... mid-life crisis turn to professional bootlicking, the platform always seemed to actively hate photographers with a burning passion.

Chilly views in the Peak District! Good time for some wandering! #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict #Photography

Beautiful view of a gorgeous conjunction! Venus & the Moon always look so beautiful together, two dominant bright lights filling the sky! 😍 I'll have to look into when Jupiter next joins them as well

Impressive halo!

Had a wonderful view of the #thunderstorms over #Queensland last night from my hotel balcony! Although a hundred miles away, the storm was throwing out clear bolts like this every few seconds! You wouldn't get this back home in December 😅 #Photography

10 years ago today, I was lucky enough to be in Sydney for a piece of weather history, as this beautiful thunderstorm opened the heavens for the 3rd wettest Christmas on record! The rest of the day was sunny & hot, so I got the best of both worlds!

Sometimes, when the water droplets are consistent, the iridescence can take on a more orderly shape, forming rings around the Moon/Sun, as seen here. This is called a corona! #Photography #Moon #Nature

Yesterday I shared some pictures of the Sun, now it's the Moon's time to shine! Under this lighting, the iridescent clouds almost look like a nebula!

The power of the Sun, captured around a year ago! Usually photos of it are taken either with a powerful filter that removes everything else, at sunset when it's at its faintest, or are glared out. But every now & then, a helpful layer of cloud lets us see its full power in a natural perspective!

Throwback to Winter 2021, when we got one of the most recent really impressive snowfalls! This was such a beautiful day with basically perfect lighting, great for photography! Snow has its upsides & downsides, but on a day like this, if you can get out it's quite magical!

Current mood, expressed by duck #photography

A Mandarin duck I photographed last year at Endcliffe Park in Sheffield. What a gorgeous little loaf! They were surprisingly tame as well, happily swimming pretty close & showing off their impressive patterns! #Photography #Duck

It never ceases to blow my mind just how much fascinating information is to be found in a small dot at the edge of the universe. I hope I live long enough to see telescopes on the Moon or something like that resolve these tiny specks into more detail!

Did you see a beautiful, bright star standing out over the twilight? That evening 'star' is, in fact, planet Venus, and is the brightest star-like point in the sky! It will be bright & visible in the evenings until around March, when it'll return to the morning sky! #Photography #Space #Astronomy