In all my years of watching clouds, this is something I have never seen before. When fetching our kids from the airport recently, we were greeted with shimmering pearlescent clouds as the lowering sun caught them at just the right angle to create irridescent colours across them, and we went home gasping at the sight of emerald green clouds. To see more Skywatch photos, go to the site and follow the links, you’ll see wonderful photos and meet a great bunch of people from around the world!
Firefly the Travel Guy 
Perfect catch for Skywatch!!! Mine’s up too hope you can drop by!!! Happy weekend!
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This is just so spectacular. I’ve never seen anything like it either! Great capture! Aloha from Hawaii. Have a great weekend.
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Extraordinary! Glad you were able both to see and to photograph it. Wish I had been there, too.
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Very beautiful sky indeed! Have a nice week-end! 🙂
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They look extraordinary at first sight. I’m so glad you were able to share them with us. Thanks.
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Oh wow! And there are some rainbow colors, too!My SWF entries are posted here and here. Hope you can stop by, too. Happy weekends!
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Surreal sky and those lamposts really add an extra dimension.
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Great eye, and good shot. I think its high upper level winds that do that, but I’d have to check my text books on that. I wish I had become a meteorologist and knew all the details.
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I love that photo. The clouds are so pretty with the sun shining through them.
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Mother of Pearl! I mean wow. Talk about looking up at the right time. Also shows the importance of always having ther camera on hand.
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Wow! Thanks for the photograph, our South African skies are a national treasure and here in the Eastern Cape we have some stunners. I love Firefly’s one from St Francis also …
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That is a new phenomenon to me too.I have seen rainbows, sundogs and auroras but never such opalescence. Wonderful capture and quie an awesome sight.
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Just beautiful! I’ve never seen anything like that either. Happy SWF!! 🙂
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Wow – I love that shimmery effect. Too beautiful.
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