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You know, they get all the most interesting animals, all the baddest creepy-crawlies, their deserts are bigger, their beaches are emptier, and their actresses better paid… Now even their visible mass of condensed water vapour are worth flying halfway across the world for.

Daily Mail - The magnificence of dawn breaking: An amazing picture

A huge, shimmering roll of white and grey, it blows in from the coast like an airborne glacier, hangs around 1,000ft above the ground, reaches perhaps a mile up towards the heavens, moves at up to 35mph and stretches up to 600 miles wide (about the same as the distance from Inverness to Exeter).

The meteorological phenomenon is known as the Morning Glory and usually occurs at first light in the months of September and October, drawing crowds of visitors, in particular gliders, hoping to catch it for an exhilarating and dangerous “cloud-surf”. …

Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of The Cloudspotter’s Guide, made a trip halfway around the world simply to see the Morning Glory and calls it “the most amazing cloud in the world”, and says he couldn’t get over “the immensity of it, blocking out the moon and the Southern Cross as it passes”.

Bah.

Curtsy: the smug Brett McS.