Autumn Sunrise

[mrs fish]

I thought I'd share this lovely sunrise we had earlier this week

[John]

That's a real cracker of a shot and well captured.

John

[Wild-Woman]

Yes. That's a lovely capture. Is that what's known as a mackrel sky?

[aeshna5]

Atmospheric photo, Mrs Fish! Did it rain later that day? Red sky in the morning, etc- I know we had similar looking sky here one day last week + it was stunning + rain did follow later.

[speckled wood]

Nice! posted my comments on the gallery.

[mrs fish]

I can't remember if it rained that day or not.
Yes mackerel sky, I knew it was something to do with fish and kept thinking herring sky which didn't seem right

[Ollie]

Lovely shot Mrs Fish. We always used to say as children, Red sky at night shepherds delight, Red sky at dawn shepherds forlorn.
Roger

[Garden Carpet]

Originally Posted by Ollie

Lovely shot Mrs Fish. We always used to say as children, Red sky at night shepherds delight, Red sky at dawn shepherds forlorn.
Roger

Thats interesting Ollie, I wonder how many versions of that saying there are.. We always said.. Red sky at night shepards delight, Red sky at morning shephards warning.
jaki

[nightshade]

Nice image,I miss the early sun at this time of year.Red sun ,more pollution would probably be the order of the day now

[Paul mabbott]

Lovely picture - I'm not really a morning person (at least never awake enough to do photography) but I do enjoy the variety of sunsets. Tonight's was pretty evil here - a vortex of black cloud coming up from the SW with spreading yellowish clouds around. Whatever the old sayings, I don't think we're going to have a sunny day tomorrow!

Are the clouds in this picture a 'mackerel sky'? I've heard the term but never known quite what it means.

[badgerwatcher]

Lovely picture, Mrs Fish. I don't often see sunrises unless I'm not in bed yet! I see lots of sunsets though.
My children used to say: Red sky at night, shepherd's delight,
Red sky in the morning, shepherd's cottage is on fire!

[Preseli]

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

Thats interesting Ollie, I wonder how many versions of that saying there are.. We always said.. Red sky at night shepards delight, Red sky at morning shephards warning.

How about "Red sky at night, Sailors delight, red sky int' morning, Sailors warning" - Has anyone else heard that version or is it just me?!

And its a gorgeous picture - the past few mornings round here I can't say I've noticed any sunrises, it just gets a paler and paler grey until its actually daylight, but then again it has always been raining

And mackeral skies - I just thought that was because the clouds looked scaley, like fish skin (though I have problems remembering the name too - I keep thinking its haddock!!!)?

Pxx

[smartie]

Our version of the saying was a hybrid of the two - "Red sky at night, shepherds' delight, red sky in the morning, sailors' warning". I think the idea was that the red in the evening indicated clouds lifting so we could expect a fair day folllowing, whereas red in the morning meant clouds gathering for a possible storm. But that sounds like a bit of pretty shaky meteorology to me.

[colincurry]

Isn't all meteorology shaky? Perhaps that's a bit unfair, but we seem to have a micro-climate that oftens runs very counter to the local three hourly forecast - usually to the good I might add.

Hope not to have offended any meteorologists!

There is an old joke about the rhyme that involves a Russian spy landing from a submarine. The punch line is "A red spy in the morning is a shepherd's warning". I can't quite remember all of the rest, except that it would not be fit for such genteel ears as subscribe to WAB.

If you can remeber the rest of the joke, you are still genteel.

Colin