A contrail in the making over Warwick in lockdown

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A contrail in the making over Warwick in lockdown

Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 19 May 2020

The first actually seen for weeks. Silently, it cut through the solid blue sky like a knife. The plane is heading west-northwest and is too high for Birmingham. The scrap of cloud to the right may be a decaying contrail from a night flight; that at upper left … hm, some sort of cirrocumulus, or just another decaying contrail?

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.284786
Longitude
-1.569557