The wind from the west swept the sky with cloudy tendrils.
Like I said, we have never seen this before but imagine walking out of your house in the morning and seeing this in the sky. Oh yes, I was dumbfounded and all that I could do was to stare at the flow of the clouds. I watched the process for about 30 minutes as the wind driving the clouds was quite strong, and it was a high wind and yet it felt quite calm here below. I presume there was a solid bank of cloud somewhere and the wind scooped the cloud tendrils off from that solid cloud.
There was no sound and just streams of clouds flowing over at speed. Something like a silent movie, and it was magical to watch. I have, overtime, posted many clashes of opposing winds, but this time there was no opposing wind and just the one flow of cloud tendrils. The rest of the country has seen a rapid warming up, with some provinces going into a heatwave, but we are still sitting here at 18C for the week at least. Up north in the country, they are sitting at 29C, and I think it is just Winter clinging on to the Cape before it departs. Maybe our own heat down here will arrive in the next couple of weeks.
This was the first sight that I had of the sky, and it was beautiful to see this with the naked eye.
So, what do you call this? A swirl of clouds? No idea.
Even a pied crow came in to land at the top of a tree in order to watch the show.
And I bet that the crow was just as dumbfounded as I was to see it all.
All the rest of the shots are of the clouds being driven from the ocean at the west.
The clouds were getting close to the sun, as you can see at the right of the picture.
Finally, I took a quick shot of some sunrays cleaving through the cloud pieces.
Then we drove around to see what the mountain looked like, and it looked like the first shot in this post. Strange that there were no birds in the sky, and maybe the winds were too strong up there. That might also be the reason why the crow clung to the top of the tree. He was still sitting at the top of the tree when we left to have a look at the mountain. Animals can sense things that we can't, and they know that it is dangerous to fly when there are such tumultuous movements occurring in the sky. Maybe it could also have to do with the navigation skills of the flyers, and if I was a bird I would try to mount up on one of those little cloud pieces to ride it like a surfboard in the sky. Lol.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
Until next time, cheers!
