I saw the cloud shown in pictures 2 and 4 and possibly 6, heading slowly east over Bouldsworth. (I assume its the same one it looked like an enormous alien spaceship and was in an otherwise clear sky). Nick will be glad to know that it obviously came from Lancashire.
"Lenticular clouds are found in the lee of mountains". Bloody hell. Mikes calling our local Pennine hills mountains. I don't think I've ever heard them called that before.
Compared to the flat lands down South they are mountains ...
I think they were possibly made by the Yorkshire three peaks Ingleborough/Penyghent/Whernside as from Burnley they did tent to be hovering over that way to me.
Compared to the flat lands down South they are mountains ...
Having moved to West Yorkshire, I'm less sure about that. Bouldsworth is the highest point around here at 517m (I don't count Pendle as "being round here" its way too far into Lancashire, not a step over the border). I see from the County tops list that "down south" Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Devon and even Somerset have higher hills. To top it all (as it were) bloody Herefordshire has the highest of them all and its called a mountain too, at least by some people.
Bouldsworth is indeed the second highest point around here as i do count Pendle in my list as im nearer to that probably than i am to Bouldsworth tho both can be seen from my house and Hambledon hill..
Bloody Lancastrians, more for them to bang on about, Pendle, the summit of Bouldsworth and even half of Black Hambledon, they've got all the highest hills round here.
From Bouldsworth it appeared that the cloud was coming from the Bowland/Pendle direction, the wind at ground level was coming that way. Also photos on the BBC site were taken at Oxenhope and Denhome to the east. Mind you it must have then taken a southwards turn if it is the same cloud pictured at Sowerby Bridge.
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