August 21, 22, and 25, 2014

The sky has been so interesting these past few days, but I have been too busy to stop and upload the pictures to here. Also, the sky changes so quickly, it's hard not to take and post a million pictures for each day. Clouds make the sky so much more interesting...

August 21, 2014
This day was really hot and muggy - one of the worst in recent memory. Air conditioning didn't seem to do much. 80+% humidity will do that, I suppose. Anyway, it was a good day for crepuscular rays through Cumulus fractus clouds.

Near the evening, it looked like the remnant of a rare Kelvin-Helmholtz. This cloud is faint, but if you look closely, the top edge of the cloud looks like the teeth of a circular saw blade.

August 22, 2014

The next day was supposed to be a bit cooler, but it was still hot and sticky. It felt like endless summer. The sky was so blue and beautiful with its sprawling field of cumulus clouds and wispy, high-flying cirrus clouds.

August 25, 2014

Over the weekend, we had thunderstorms and rain. The result was that Sunday was warm, with a cool, dry breeze. Today's breeze was even a bit chilly at times. It was a wonderful relief after the hot, stuffy week we'd had, but by the afternoon, clouds had moved in. In the picture you below, you can see rainfall in the distant West from some stratocumulus clouds.

To the Northwest, the sky was still mostly clear, except for some cirrostratus clouds.

 Here, some faint mammatus formation above the stratocumulus clouds.

And to close out this entry, a nice shot of an altocumuls undulatus cloud to the Northwest about an hour after these other pictures were taken. I liked it because it looked like a cooked fillet of cod. Okay, so maybe I was just hungry at that point...