Dramatic cloud formations, all the time, every day. All the weathers, all at once, all the time. I’ve been noticing this for weeks, if not months. It’s one of my niggling ‘is this weather or is this climate change?’ questions. Constantly interesting skies. And constant wind.
Constantly interesting skies. Constant wind. Everywhere. Every day.
Constantly interesting skies. Constant wind. Every day. Everywhere.
I must look like an Old Woman Yells At Clouds meme as I wander around town nowadays. I keep staring at the sky because every day, every hour, everywhere, the clouds look overwrought. Too low, too thick, too swirly, too many kinds at once. Storm clouds mixed into fluffy white clouds. Grey and black and white and orange clouds mixed, surrounded by cloudless deep blue sky.
Maybe I will yell at them. I'll yell: ‘Are you weather or are you climate change?!’
Striking cloud formations, all the time, every day. All the weathers, all at once, all the time. All Summer, and now in Autumn.
I don't know whether to admire them or be nervous about them. That niggling question keeps nibbling at me: it this weather or is this climate change?
@CiaraNi Cumulus clouds form from a process that starts with the sun heating the earth, warming the air, which then rises to a point at which the dew point is reached and water vapor condenses into clouds. So it is a combination of heat and sufficient moisture. I have no idea how to fit your observations into an overall global warming pattern. Are you in between areas that are getting heavier rains and those suffering from increasing drought? I don't think you need to be nervous specifically about the clouds unless they turn into big angry thunderheads. But of course we all should be concerned about climate change, regardless of our local cloud patterns.
@Gaythia I'm not nervous in the 'the sky is falling in' sense. I've just noticed that these eye-catching, often dramatic, mixed skies with different kinds of clouds, all at once, all the time, seem to be an everyday phenomenon now. I am just noticing locally and wondering if this is a new pattern, not just chance weather.