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photo by Donald Kinney
A cigar shaped cloud passing over Mount Tamalpais Tuesday afternoon.
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photo by Donald Kinney
Some folks will call this a "buttermilk" sky, but more might know it as a "mackerel" sky, getting its name from a resemblance to the speckled skin markings of the Spanish King Mackerel, the fish.
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Sailors have used this cloud formation for centuries to predict the weather. An old nautical saying is; "Mackerel in the sky, three days dry".
[last image, sunrise over San Pablo Bay, is not new; taken Nov. 14, 2012]
2 comments:
...and wet streets in the morning! Yippee!!
JOHN (SINBAD'S DAD) Here in Fairfax we got about 3/8", but we'll need a lot more than that if we are going to a dent in our drought, and dampen these nasty wild-fires burning all over the place. I was asking someone down in the Monterey Peninsula area how much rain they got and it was only a trace.
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