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Cloudless Day Until...

A bushfire (possibly a controlled burn) pushes its smoke above the border ranges horizon near Mt Tomewin. Slowly a white cap appears atop the smoke — a little physics in action. Warm air from the fire and carried up with the smoke reaches an altitude where it cools and the moisture in the smoke condenses. Voila! We have a cloud on a cloudless day. I guess all this shows that you can take the teacher out of science but you can't take the science out of the teacher...

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Uploaded on October 10, 2018
Taken on September 18, 2018