Clouds clothing the mountains.

I wish that you can see how the clouds slowly envelop the mountains.
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A slow and gentle action that looks like cloudy waterfalls.

As you can see, the wind was high, but down below it was only a cool breeze. The in-laws up north in the country were happy to tell us during a phone call, that their 3 weeks of torture in the heat, has now subsided into lower temperatures, with much rain. Now the heat is our turn here down south, as we are rapidly climbing into the 30s Celius. Maybe we will go into the 40s, and that would create a catastrophe, as the water in the dams will evaporate and threaten not only drought, but also a lack of drinking water.

And a view towards the left of the palm tree in the first photo.
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And here is something else. The clouds were in the process of closing the mountains. The tall skinny trees on that hill looked like an army watching the advance of an enemy.
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Keep a watch on the pictures, as the clouds continue to change.
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Oh yeah, the clouds did eventually close the entire mountain range into a big white cloudy worm on the landscape, but sadly we had to be somewhere else at a meeting, and this was all that I could get on camera.
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Rainy drizzle and the low 20s up north, and it really feels like they have stolen our weather. But on occasion, when massive storms and floods hit them, then they blame us down south for sending our storms to them. Having also lived up north for many years, we have also joined in the accusations, but now that we live down here, we can fully comprehend the weather issues between the north and the south.

Experience matters, as they say, and although the weather forecasters have the latest instruments, they can still get it wrong. Do you know that feeling when they say that the rain will start at 3pm on a day, and your planned outing starts at 9am in the rain on the same day? Or when they say that the temperature will be 24C, and then it turns out that the temperature turns out to be 27C?
Just the way of life, and they cannot be blamed, as the weather has its own mind. :)

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

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wow amazing. The third image is like water waves.

Yep, the clouds flowing over the mountains often reminds me of the ocean waves. !LOL

Wow I keep getting reminded how amazing your surroundings are down there! I definitely have to visit at some point and witness it myself.

I would imagine that extreme terrain next to massive bodies of water must play havoc with weather prediction. Up here, we are relatively flat and inland so they get the forecast right most of the time. I just ignore any reports more than 4 days from the actual date. ;)

Awesome shots!

You will be welcomed with open arms Sir Zeke.

Yep! You are right, and everyone here jokes about the poor weatherman, but I would not want his job for all of the money in the world. The Atlantic at the one side and the Indian ocean at the other side. Then the mountain ranges also have a disturbing effect on the weather patterns, especially when the wind comes from inland to flow over the mountains, and we sit smack bang in the middle of all of this. One day 29C and the next day 22C !LOL

Thank you!

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I see some very beautiful pictures of mountains. I am always interested in seeing some of the pictures you have displayed here my friend.

Thank you for the appreciation of the pictures, and I am glad that you find my pictures interesting. !LOL