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When I took this photo, I was sure these are clouds. But now I'm not so sure...
Als ich das Foto gemacht habe, war ich sicher, dass es sich um Wolken handelt. Bin mir nicht mehr so sicher…
Credits: ESA/NASA
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The Kaikoura coast has mountains, deep ocean trenches, and lots of weather. Here a spectacular lenticular cloud is forming as high altitude winds flow over the seaward Kaikoura range.
willawa point, 5k nth of kekerengu
- www.kevin-palmer.com - After shooting a severe storm at Bear Butte Lake, I went north to wait for this storm near Vale. This gust front produced a recorded wind gust of 79 mph in nearby Belle Fourche. I tried to get as close as I could without getting pummeled by the 2 inch hail.
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The Vasco da Gama Bridge can just be seen through the passing storm
The Vasco da Gama Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts and rangeviews that spans the Tagus River in Parque das Nações in Lisbon, capital of Portugal. It is the longest bridge in Europe (including viaducts), with a total length of 17.2 km (10.7 mi), including 0.829 km (0.5 mi) for the main bridge, 11.5 km (7.1 mi) in viaducts, and 4.8 km (3.0 mi) in dedicated access roads. Its purpose is to alleviate the congestion on Lisbon's other bridge (25 de Abril Bridge), and to join previously unconnected motorways radiating from Lisbon.
Construction began on February 1995; the bridge was opened to traffic on 29 March 1998, just in time for Expo 98, the World's Fair that celebrated the 500th anniversary of the discovery by Vasco da Gama of the sea route from Europe to India.
Lisbon Portugal 2014
This is not a shot spectacular enough to even post to my own pool (Spectacular Skyscapes), but I find it quite interesting. Some thunderstorm clouds (cumulonimbus) acquire the name anvil cloud, as the tops of taller ones may be sheared off and flattened out by straight line winds at higher altitudes, giving them the appearance of a blacksmith's anvil. This anvil-like cloud (it is too low to be a true anvil cloud) formed at sunset a few days ago, but on that day dissipated and brought no rain to my drought-stricken garden.
EDIT: I changed my mind and decided to invite this into the SpecSky pool*, especially since I would be posting it next to something quite similar but a bit more spectacular.
*I can do that because I'm the administrator. :-)
Forgive me in advance for not being able to Flickr much.
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Cloud scenes taken over the South Pacific from the cockpit of a DC8 mid seventies. Took years of flying to find this one. See more here:
Clouds Amaze Me
By Don Iannone
Clouds amaze me
how easily they make friends
with other clouds, but
always maintain their independence, and
how they put themselves
at the mercy of the wind, that
keeps them from becoming
too set in their ways like mountains.
Clouds amaze me
how they drift in wisps and billows, and
how they dress up as scowling old men
with stately white beards, or
naughty elephants standing on hind legs, or
even battered pirate ships
on a tumultuous sea.
Clouds amaze me
how they seduce my imagination, and
how they make me want to dance, and
how they make me want to be
something other than I am,
if only long enough
to know what it’s like
to be someone or something else.
Clouds amaze me
because they can be whatever
they want to be, and
finally just like good poems, they
leave the right parts of the story untold.
Mother Natures lungs on display. If they look healthy its because they are. she has been huffing and puffing storms non stop.