West of London

We’d just taken off from Stansted, and here we are going almost directly over Heathrow (on our way to Corsica). Heathrow lower left. M4/M25 junction lower centre.

Take a look at Wraysbury Reservoir (centre left). Is that mist rising off the reservoir, or reflected clouds? If it’s mist, why isn’t it obscuring the far bank of the reservoir? And why is mist rising from it (and some ponds beyond it), but not from The Queen Mother Reservoir (close to centre)?

For that matter, if it’s clouds, why reflected in one and not the other? That could simply be that the clouds are beyond Wraysbury, but it’s blue sky beyond the Queen Mother, of course. But why are the clouds much brighter close to the edge of the reservoir than in the middle?

And why, if the sky’s so busy over Heathrow, does a flight from Stansted to Corsica go exactly that way? (That’s easy: we were a long way above all the stacked aircraft waiting to land. I guess.)

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