THESE incredible photos show the clouds as you've never seen them before from the Malvern Hills.

The clouds and fog can be seen from the top of the hills looking almost like an ocean while the hills poke out the top among clear blue skies.

Dave Throup's stunning pictures show a natural phenomenon known as 'inversion' where the clouds and fog are trapped closer to the ground.

This results in an amazing visual effect where you can see the weather in the valley below from above.

Mr Throup, Environment Agency manager for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, captured the scenes while out on the hills this weekend.

In a video he shared on Twitter from the top, he said: "It is beautiful up on the Malverns this morning as the temperature inversion really has an impact.

"I was up here yesterday and couldn't see my hand in front of my face but up here now it is stunning.

"When you get to about 300 metres up the fog and cloud clears completely and the temperature inversion acts almost as a sort of lid for it.

"It is just above freezing down there, but up here, it must be 10 or 12 degrees as the high pressure and warm air pushes down.

"It looks like a great ocean of fog down there."

Other Twitter users replied with their own pictures of the incredible scenes.

Inversion happens when the temperature in a valley or below a hill is lower than the temperature above.

This, combined with high pressure, forces the cloud and fog down, creating an incredible visual effect akin to being above the clouds.

Were you up on top of the Malvern Hills this week? Share your inversion photos with us.