Rare ‘mother of pearl’ clouds appear in the skies over Scotland

They look like a stunning Impressionist masterpiece or a puddle of petrol in the sky.

And while ‘mother of pearl’ clouds are usually a rare sight in the UK, slot kamboja bet 100 perak they’ve been spotted in Scottish skies this week.

Photographers across Aberdeenshire, the Highlands and Moray have snapped shots of the curious formations, formed of tiny ice particles that scatter light.

Also known as nacreous clouds, the large thin discs are typically seen over Norway and other polar regions when the sun is just below the horizon.

Nacreous clouds need temperatures below -108°F (-78°C) to form, a temperature found much higher up in the stratosphere (the second layer of the atmosphere of Earth)

Due to their unusual appearance, nacreous clouds have been mistaken by some as aurora borealis, while others have compared them to UFOs

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