... from Sarychev volcano had been measured, I was very astonished when I saw an intense purple light with crepuscular rays about half an hour before sunrise (sun elevation at -6°) in the morning of November 17. The crepuscular rays crossed the whole sky near the horizon, converging at the antisolar point (1 - 2 - 3). Of course I immediately asked my colleagues from the ...

... you are seeing are rays of sunlight - sunbeams, crepuscular rays (well, in this case, anticrepuscular rays) - whatever you choose to call them - as they appeared at sunrise. The picture was taken facing ... about 6:40 I noticed pink streamers in the sky above me. Then I noticed purplish-blue rays between these pink streamers, converging on a point somewhere near the horizon. I have seen this sort ...

... the church. When I walked in, the first thing I noticed was the aroma of incense, then I spotted these "crepuscular rays," the result of the sunlight coming through the overhead windows. We can see the rays, because they illuminate the microscopic particles of the smoke from the incense suspended in the air. It was nice that the ...

... -2, originally uploaded by taduque.Facilitated by a nice gap at the horizon, the Raleigh area was treated to some very robust crepuscular rays that illuminated the underside of the advancing clouds... seen above 10 minutes before sunrise proper (and better large on black), and below three minutes later, with the rays having merged into a bona fide flamer of a sunrise (again better LOB ...

... under the trees; a deer paused in the saplings by the roadside, his eyes like velvet in the dark; a red locomotive stopped just before the bend in the tracks, illuminated by crepuscular rays, a steaming pile of sawdust from the sawmill looming in the background. A teacup-sized owl staring me down from the other side of the windowpane. And a ...

... ). # RT @OtherTPA: Our faith in Daily Mail readers restored - check out the comments (via @tabloidwatch) # (A msg for my long time followers) Oooh, nice crepuscular rays on the left # @BorisWatch I found their blog outreach team good. If you blog it they are likely to get in touch in reply to BorisWatch # RT @CathyWallace: Eeeks, what a PR ...

... congestus pileus from their altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus undulatus, and don't care, will enjoy looking at the pictures. The crepuscular rays of the latter are shown in the picture below. It will remind those whose thoughts at this time of year turn only to self-indulgence and excess that contemplating the glories of nature can bring ...

... up with anorexia. Oh yeah, the northwest of Woodward storms were pretty photogenic. Saw a wall cloud at sunset northwest of Woodward, some incredible crepuscular rays radiating through a storm tower (the soon to be Woodward supercell)… there were actually two side-by-side initially.  The images below show the initial towering cumulus stage with ...