but how can that sky and cloud not make you feel upbeat?
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Upbeat
Tag: Himmel
Puffy Clouds
It doesn’t feel like winter, it doesn’t look like winter. According to the calendar it is winter.
🎵 I’m Dreaming of a Grey Christmas 🎵
In the radio they said that the weather we had these past two weeks is quite normal: a cold spell and then warming up before Christmas eve and a few non-descript, greyish festive days happens 7 out of 10 times. It’s a good thing we spend most of the time around the table!
The Fields Are Turning Brown
but the skies are still blue.
Weekend Sky
When the Gods Are Playing
Deb’s World oddity today showed two (or possibly three) jet streams in one sky. I remember the sky looking like this a few years ago:
Who was actually playing? Odd.
African sky
Within a week we went from sub zero temperatures and snowy landscapes to springy 20° C with people walking around in t-shirts and shorts. But with this surge in temperature came another phenomenon which can be observed particularly during sunrise and sunset. Gone is the pink and orange glow instead the sky turns a dusky yellow.
The photos are not photoshopped (except for a little cropping). The last one is a close-up of the sun just before it dips behind the hills of the Palatium.
The reasons for these conditions is wind bringing sand from the Sahara to Europe. Dust from 3000 – 5000 km away is in the air and settling (thus, by the way, enriching our soil and has been doing so for hundreds of thousands years – thank you Afrika!). Here is a link to NASA showing this from high above: NASA.
Weekend Sky #18.
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