What are they trying to tell us?
The Weird Cloud Atlas…Mandatory Credit: Photo by Science Photo Library / Rex Features (1815511f) Lightning lights up clouds above Monument Peak, Arizona, America The Weird Cloud Atlas *Full story: http://www.rexfeatures.com/nanolink/hscd Lightning is an electrical discharge caused by the accumulation of electrical charge on clouds. The exact cause of this accumulation is unclear, but it is probably due to the rapid movement of water droplets and fragments of ice within clouds. The charge builds up in the cloud until it creates an ionised path to an object with an opposite charge. The charge then passes rapidly down this pathway, producing blinding white light and temperatures up to 30,000 degrees celsius. If your knowledge of clouds only extends to ‘dull and grey’ or ‘white and fluffy’, then prepare to be amazed by this cloud atlas. Nature also produces clouds in all shapes, sizes and colours. Some can fool the unwary into thinking they’re having a UFO experience; others send folks rushing into storm shelters.
Then again, maybe it’s not so much what they’re trying to tell us, as what we’re trying to tell them.
“There is divinity in the clouds.” ~Lailah Gifty Akita
“Clouds in the sky very much resemble the thoughts in our minds! Both change perpetually from one second to another!” ~Mehmet Murat ildan
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” ~G.K. Chesterton
“There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, ‘Consume me’.” ~Virginia Woolf
“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
from up and down, and still somehow
it’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all”
~Joni Mitchell
I am always amazed by clouds! Love this!
Beautiful
Yep you see what you want.
the photos are breathtaking. i spent hours as a child staring up at the clouds and seeing all kinds of visions!
Me too.
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I love the photograph clouds. I’ve got one cloudy sky with a square hole right through the clouds. It looks like the windows of Heaven are open.
God’s handiwork is everywhere. Beautiful examples.
Wow, beautiful, stunning, impressive, and scary. I love watching clouds.
Impressive, especially the funnels!
Love the photos. I hope that all of you have lounged in the grass and found images in the clouds. Do children even think to do that now with all the electronics?
Oh, I suspect most of them do.
That’s a very good question!
Those clouds? In my part of the country, they’re saying, “GO TO THE BASEMENT YOU FOOL!”
As I flipped through the photos, Joni Mitchell’s song came into my head–and then you quoted it!
Super duper images. I could cloud gaze the day away.
I am fascinated by clouds. Their color, texture, shape, and beauty.
I love looking at clouds. These are certainly beautiful. I remembered being on an island driving on a sunny street when suddenly a dark cloud with rain started approaching. It was amazing. 5 minutes later it was gone
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