The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Hello Moon Halos!

Singapore August 2013 There were two rainbow-tinted rings around the moon last night. - TWO! The rings that encircled the moon arose from light passing through six-sided ice crystals high in the atmosphere. These ice crystals refract, or bend, light in the same manner that a camera lens bends light. The crystals have to be oriented and positioned just so with respect to your eye, in order for the halo to appear. The ring has a diameter...

Orange Fire In The Sky

Singapore  17 August 2013 This morning, the sunlight was golden. The walls of the buildings nearby were awash with slanted yellow rays. In the horizon loomed a strip of cumulonimbus clouds. True enough, by mid-afternoon, a fiery thunderstorm swept across Singapore. In the evening, the sky was still awash with Stratus and Altocumulus clouds... In places, thins wisps were being blown away by the strong wind... At around 1900h,...