Whenever you see interesting clouds, take a photo with your phone and you might surprise yourself. Camera sensors can capture details that are hard for the human eye to perceive. This morning, I saw these wonderful clouds, but the sky was too bright for me to spot the subtle sun rays.
Also, I uploaded this image into ChatGPT to learn these new things:
☁️ Altocumulus clouds: These are the mid-level, patchy, and slightly rippled clouds you see forming a sweeping blanket across the right side of the sky. They often appear as rounded clumps or rolls and are typical during fair weather, especially in the morning or late afternoon.
☁️ Cirrostratus clouds: These are the wispy, high-level clouds contributing to the glowing halo effect around the sun. They’re thin and veil-like, often covering large portions of the sky and giving it a hazy appearance.
⛅ Crepuscular rays are the dramatic, sunbeam-like rays of sunlight. They occur when sunlight streams through gaps in clouds, such as cumulus or stratocumulus, and is scattered by atmospheric particles like dust, water droplets, or aerosols. The light beams are actually parallel, but they appear to diverge due to perspective, much like train tracks converging in the distance.