Thursday, August 8, 2013

Cumulous Clouds

  As a life long sky watcher, it seems to me that we must have broken some kind of record for how many days in a row that the sky has been full of cumulous clouds? According to Webster,  Cumulous clouds are bright, white and puffy, and I'd say that that sums it up well!
  If you know the type, and if you are a sky watcher yourself, you know that these are the kind that change shape as you watch, and that if you watch long enough, eventually they will become anything that you can think of? The really good ones remain bright, white and puffy, even in the night sky! All they need is a clear bright moon to show off their shapes as they move across the sky!
  But my very best favorite kind, is when they form a giant circle in the sky, and you can see them rise to their full height, as you view them from inside the circle! This has happened twice that I remember quite vividly, in the little patch of sky that I watch.
  All told, the inner wall of the circumference was at least four, but no more then six layers high! And though the layers moved separate from each other, they all stopped at the inner wall as if kept in circle form by some unknown force? Each of the layers, independent of each other, moved in the area back from the clearing, forcing faces and different shapes to show themselves to the clearing! All of the formations within the cloud layers were a brilliant white, except for the bottom layer which had a blueish grey bottom. Watching the skys' can be quite interesting, and I highly recommend it! Find a patch of sky near you, and try to get out and watch it at least once a day? This can be very rewarding.

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