Nice pics Pgcc, and I'm glad I wasn't the only one to spot the rather odd clouds tonight.
Was out myself with the dog, enjoying a little roaming in the gloaming, when I started taking a few pics of the local bing, which was looking fairly picturesque with the sunset reflecting off it. Not exactly Ayers Rock, but I know, but I like it!
Anyways, I spotted something odd happening in the background...
The bing - such a shame, I think, that they're gonna flatten it for yet more twee houses. From this angle, though, the clouds on the left looked realy odd, especially compared to the darker cloud on the right. This view is looking roughly north.
Climbing to the top of the bing, it became apparent that the biggest, densest, dirtiest big cloud I've seen in ages was creeping westwards over the city, advancing on the Campsies in the distance. In the west, however, a glorious sunset was reflecting off the vertical face of the cloud, making it eerily glowing!
Looking northeast, towards Uddingston, the trailing face of this front was moodily moving in, with the stub of a rainbow just visible in the middle.
Annoyingly, I had no reason when I left to have brought my wide angle lens, so was struggling to get a true representation of the scale of this thing!
And still the sun set fabulously in the west...
...and the further below the horizon it dipped, the redder its reflection became.
The evil cloud set it's sights on the water towers!
And the sun finally fled over the horizon...
I returned to ground level. The light under the cloud was really spooky, a great sense of impending doom that I couldn't really capture on camera - it felt like how I imagine a full solar eclipse to be, as if it should be light, but it's dark, if you know what I mean! These last two shots taken at an old abandoned farm kinda come close - although very grey and dark indeed, there was still light reflected everywhere from the clearer sunset in the west, as on the grain silo here.
Had to lighten this one up a wee bit, but it gives a good idea of the light under the dirty big black cloud.
Gary