Following the sweeping path of a cold wave through the Arctic, the skies were alight with rare polar stratospheric clouds, which presented a rainbow-like show throughout the sky. Images of the ...

BBC Weather Watcher Goring photographer captured the rarely seen clouds over Goring, Oxfordshire Rainbow-coloured clouds ... to be most visible at sunrise or sunset. The clouds, large thin discs ...

BBC Weather Watcher Frosty Rich took this snap of the clouds seen over Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire The clouds cast a colourful display in the skies over Menston, West Yorkshire, as photographed ...

Arctic observers were granted a rare spectacle when rare rainbow-colored ... "The clouds were visible in the sky all day, but the colors really exploded just before sunset," said Norway-based ...

The clouds almost resembled a map of a vast and rugged continent, with deep valleys and mountainous highlands. While the valleys seemed sunk in purple darkness, the fire of the sunset traced the ...