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I'm sure that everyone in the Peak must have been as impressed as I was about the views on Saturday. I'm guessing next week's top 10 photos will be flooded with pictures of it.

Where did you get the best view of it?

We got some great views on the moors above Chatsworth but the best photos I've seen from friends were taken from Stanage. Mam Tor must have been a good vantage point but ive not seen any photos taken from there yet.

In reply to Somerset swede basher:

Would you care to post a link to your photos of it on here?

Thanks in advance.

In reply to Somerset swede basher:

I was up on kinder, was beautiful as the sun came up on the way up. got a couple of photos on my phone but nothing amazing (it being a phone and not a camera). was lovely on top as well, very very still...

In reply to Somerset swede basher:

Decided not to take my camera as it looked a bit grim from Sheffield in the morning. Got a few phone snaps though:

http://imgur.com/a/0ULH4

In reply to Somerset swede basher:

There was an inversion in the Brecon Beacons too, amazing day: http://imgur.com/a/QeeHd

In reply to Mowglee:
I missed it completely. D'Oh! Various friends have put some nice photos on FB etc., but there are surprisingly few on here so far.



Nice. I particularly like this one: http://i.imgur.com/XXxgEZO.jpg
(Stick it in your gallery on here, g'wan. I'll give it a 5.)

edit: oops - wrong link.

In reply to Somerset swede basher:

I was up on the tops over Howden reservoir looking back to the ridge and the inversion. Stunning pretty much all day.

In reply to Trangia:

I didn't take any as was walking with my dad who took loads on his fancy camera. Unfortunately he doesn't acknowledge the existence of 'the internet' so will have to wait until Christmas when I see him again before I can get a copy of them.

In reply to Somerset swede basher:

Was pretty nice in the Brecon Beacons indeed: http://i.imgur.com/iJYfLP1.jpg

In reply to thommi:

Couple of photos in my gallery now...

In reply to thommi:

one in mine too from Calderdale

In reply to Bulls Crack:

Very nice indeed.

In reply to thommi:

Why would anyone thumbs down me about this? The mind boggles....

In reply to Somerset swede basher:

Cloud inversion? How can you tell the clouds are upside down?

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Did I mean temperature inversion? Are they the same thing or have I made up a term?

In reply to Somerset swede basher:


I think so, to both. I think what you are seeing is the top of a thick layer of fog which persists because the inversion of temperature prevents its lifting. In still clear conditions mainly in the winter cold air collects in the valleys and the warmer air rises above it by convection. The fog then forms as the cold air reaches saturation. So it isn't really cloud in the normal sense of the word.
However, the term cloud inversion is quite a useful shorthand if incorrect scientifically, and it has gained considerable currency especially on ukc.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Why is my post offensive?

In reply to deepsoup:



Gorillas in the mist?

In reply to hang_about:

Chimps in the haze? Baboons in the brume!

In reply to Rog Wilko: It wasn't. Well, in a normal world it isn't, but we are in post-truth, post-fact brexit Britain.

Andy F

I was on Bamford Edge on Saturday, superb conditions with excellent views and only us and 1 other group on the crag! Defiantly regretted not taking my camera once the clouds cleared above the crag but got some good photos on my phone, the best ones in my gallery.

One of the best days I've had on grit this year for sure!

In reply to Tim Harper:
Stunning photo Tim. We had walked the ridges via Margery Hill and beyond Outside Edge. The views looking back down the reservoirs were equally awesome. Wished we had taken our cameras with us.

In reply to Tim Harper:
Wow. Stunning!

In reply to Rog Wilko:

It's not offensive, just overly pedantic. This has been commonly known as a cloud inversion for as long as I can remember. In fact, I've never heard it called a temperature inversion in photography circles. Hence 1 thumb down. :-P

In reply to ScottTalbot:

Always been called a temperature inversion in my experience. Cloud inversion is a new one on me. Is it an informal name, like 'sea of clouds'? Whatever you want to call it, it is a temperature inversion that causes the phenomenon.

In reply to ScottTalbot:

Sorry, must be getting above myself. Personally, I prefer to understand things as they actually are. That nice Mr Gove said something about this kind of thing d.uring the referendum campaign (not that I'm suggesting I'm an expert or anything). ;O)
Btw, agree Tim's picture is great!

In reply to Rog Wilko:

In the same spirit of pedantry, it's a great picture featuring a temperature inversion but it's not a picture of a temperature inversion because the human eye can't see the temperature of the air, or convection currents within it directly: a temperature inversion is invisible.

In order to see one, there needs to be something in the air that makes the convection (or lack of it) visible. Smoke would do. Or, as in Tim's picture, water vapour that has condensed out into a mass of tiny airborne droplets of water - that is what makes the inversion visible.

Now, what's a good snappy name for a big fluffy looking aerosol of tiny airborne water droplets dominating a landscape? One that, but for the inversion going on, would be much higher in the air. Hmm...

In reply to deepsoup:

Can't argue with that.


Fog? Valley fog?
I expect if you'd been driving down the Derwent Valley you might have made a comment about the thick gloomy fog. ;O)

In reply to Rog Wilko:

In an inversion - what would you call that then? Inversion fog? <googles>

https://www.britannica.com/science/fog#ref111043
"Inversion fogs are formed as a result of a downward extension of a layer of stratus cloud, situated under the base of a low-level temperature inversion."

Ah yes, "Inversion Fog" is indeed a thing. Consisting of a layer of cloud.