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It was the annual Steam Rally at the Lincolnshire Showground, and I was helping to man the Lincolnshire Mills Group marquee. The sun shone fitfully through storm clouds, and the pleasant smell of the many exhibits was in the air. Suddenly there was a loud roar, I dashed out of the tent, and just in time saw the Red Arrows doing a fly past over the Showground.
Big poufy cloud ~ what more do you need to know? ;o) ... At first - it kind of made me wonder if there weren't some governmental testing grounds *over there* or something, but ~ I haven't grown a hump on my back or anything ... yet ... but stay tuned - there's still time ...
Update:
Okay - so I consulted a weather expert friend and he was kind enough to explain this cloud formation to me ~ this big poufy cloud I thought was so cute and harmless isn't exactly so cute and harmless ...
"The name they give it is called "Cumulonimbus incus"
A cumulonimbus incus (Latin incus, "anvil") is a cumulonimbus cloud which has reached the level of stratospheric stability and has formed the characteristic flat, anvil-top shape. It can cause a supercell and then a tornado.
A cumulonimbus incus is a sub-form of cumulonimbus capillatus."
I see these quite frequently in my area of North Texas and thought they were just big poufy clouds ~ from now on, I will have to be more aware of them (and definitely have my camera at the ready!) ...
Thanks to Nebraskasc for the cloud ID!
The rising sun spreads it's warm rays of light across the sky and on the land.
This image was taken from the summit of Sitting Bear Mountain in the Linville Gorge on a trip with my good friends Keith Clontz and Dale King.
Stinging nettles, weeds and wild trees have taken hold on the lawn at Clouds, the old home of Lady Idina Sackville, which was famous for it's wild dinner parties and nights of wife-swapping, where guests would roll a dice or blow feathers at each other in an adjacent room, to determine the evening's pairings. The house has been falling into disrepair since it was bought, in 1969, by a civil servant who worked for Kenya's Land Adjudication & Settlement Department for 75,000 Kenyan Shillings (£560). The family of born-again Christians say they can't afford to maintain the buildings. They said they rarely have parties because they don't drink alcohol and they don't have many friends. They keep sheep in the old kitchen, the dining room is now a maize store and they keep potatoes in the old gatehouses. They felled an avenue of more than 20 gum trees in 2003, after one of them collapsed onto the house. They said they would like to restore it to its former glories but can't afford to.
El viento, en ocasiones, hace que las nubes adquieran formas interesantes. Al fondo, a 20 kmts, 400 metros, El Puig de Randa.
The wind sometimes causes clouds acquire interesting shapes. In the background, 20 kmts, 400 meters far away, El Puig de Randa.
Clouds Gather as 68 013 prooels a Marylebone bound service into the station whilst 165 035 rests in the bay platform.
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A change in weather is heralded by strong high altitude winds, viz. the creamy cirrocumulus undulatus clouds.
The sun is behind a clouds towards the lower right edge. In the original version of the image, the CA around that tree was rather massive. Bit of a disappointment, really.
"I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye..."