NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS

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Researchers working with data from NASA's AIM spacecraft have announced that noctilucent clouds (NLCs) are behaving strangely. Boosted by changing "teleconnections" in Earth's atmosphere, the summertime clouds appeared earlier this year than ever before, setting the stage for an unusually good season of NLCs. "Unusually good" certainly describes the apparition this morning over Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland.
"It was an amazing display," says photographer Mark Ferrier. "The clouds appeared after sunset on June 8th and lasted straight through to sunrise on June 9th."

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[cupoteacoast]

We are now seeing noctilucent clouds regularly in Paekakariki from Antartica; they have been confirmed. We are highly orographic and get wind directly ex Mt Erebus or the Southern Ocean. Our orographics are getting more severe, and what uplifts over Erebus, comes down in Paekakariki, via Baring Head. We are seeing insane stuff at insanely low levels. Here is one lot from 11 Sept 2014, the day when the ozone hole over Antartica was at its biggest for 2014.

[Martin4Jay]

Wow that Awsome