West Cornwall No horizon but excellent visibility

[Graham Easterling]

Some beautiful weather here the last few days. Plenty of sunshine meant it reached 19C yesterday and today, warmest on the coast. There was a fair bit of convectional cloud inland, also the SST is still around 17C so little a warmer start on the coast, and little cooling effect.

The lighting this morning was typical of the centre of an anticyclone in Autumn, when the SST and the temperature over the land much the same (both around 17C when I took the following photos. The lighting meant that the horizon over the sea was, to all intents and purposes, invisible, so objects appeared to be floating.

Longship's Lighthouse from Cape Cornwall. The tidal race can be seen going passed the Brisons (fat man floating).

If you think it was hazy, it wasn't it just an effect of the lighting. The following photo is purely in to demonstrate the visibility was 30 miles. That's Scilly directly behind the fat man, which at least shows where the horizon is hiding

Surprised someone didn't send a photo to Spotlight Southwest of a ship apparently in mid air. Claiming some complex refractive explanation, they've got way with that before, especially with enhanced photos.

Graham

Penzance 

[Graham Easterling]

More sunshine again today, but the lighting is completely different, so with the sky & sea colour being quite different.

We need a big swell, a SW wind and a big tide to bring the sand back to the Cove end of the beach.

Graham

Penzance