What kind of sky do you see?
Looking on the dark side our sizzling mini heatwave will be over this week. It's been a corker. Who needs a holiday( actually I still want one of those) when you have had the blazing heat at the back end of the month of June. On the other hand... It's going to persist down with the watery stuff tonight, rain that is, bucket loads. Storms are forecast for later so it's get the washing in time, secure the bird feeders and close the windows. You can feel the hot, sticky, humid air hanging heavy. This is a lemonade day. The light in the clouds and the sliver of blue sky hint the sun is out to play, but the silhouette of the trees and the ominous threatening grey clouds creeping in on the left suggest it will be a washout sometime soon...
....The cloud though swung by. Laden but not ready to drop her load over me just yet. That was earlier. I just peeked out the windows. The back patio windows are blazing with bright light. The front windows have a darker cooler tone filtering through. There is a warm slight breeze encircling the house. I can sniff a storm over Snaefell a mile off and this smells like storm spirit. Batten down the hatches but not before I get my camera.
If you click here you can see Snaefell closer and what it is.
....The cloud though swung by. Laden but not ready to drop her load over me just yet. That was earlier. I just peeked out the windows. The back patio windows are blazing with bright light. The front windows have a darker cooler tone filtering through. There is a warm slight breeze encircling the house. I can sniff a storm over Snaefell a mile off and this smells like storm spirit. Batten down the hatches but not before I get my camera.
If you click here you can see Snaefell closer and what it is.
73 comments:
a stormy hello to you.
hope you get everything in order before it hits.
we had one pass by last evening but not drop a thing over us but further on up it was windy and hailing UNREAL.
beautiful capture.
have a good weekend.
The sky is good to us, not to my garden, hope you will enjoy what will happen the next days.
Does look stormy! Terrific shot! Don't get too wet! Have a great weekend, hope it does rain the entire time. This is our best time of year and it does make up for long, wet, cold winter!
Great play with the contrast. I think it is a beautiful day played down by the contrast. So for this photo I will say it is a stormy day. Going to rain soon I guess. haha...
Have a wonderful weekend.
Alexander
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Excellent clouds...
If you get a storm... please blow it over this way. It's still very hot hot hot... :O)
Tom
Mines Here
A beautiful sky indeed.
It got dark earlier tonight and we are awaiting the rain hoping it will be not so hot afterwards - 10pm and we are still waiting in the heat.
Our skies look like this all the time this summer. I love it. So pretty. Fantastically pretty!
Alexander-It's beautiful day being threatened by clouds. Shot straight out of the camera, no adjustments, but you can't get this on auto has to be a manual setting. You regulars will no what I'm on about.
Hyde and Tom. I'm blowing as hard as I can.
I didn't like this weather forecast. That kind of weather tend to continue across the North Sea...
Maybe it will pass through. A nice downpour is needed here. TOO HOT!
I enjoyed your writing and photo. Have a great holiday weekend!
We could do with some here, cool things down a bit. Difficult to sleep and very headachey at the moment.
Nice photo for sky watch full of all kinds of drama brewing, hope you enjoyed your sky watching today.
Rain rain go away and please do not come again for many a day
It's still dry, no storm. The air is thick. 2hrs before it hits max. Thanks for the other Snaefell link to compare.
The photo conveys the menacing feel of an approaching storm. I can almost smell it approaching, and I'm sure I can feel the wind.
Impressive sky!!
Waiting for a storm here too, plain rain I hope and no wind storm. I wish it will be a safe storm for you too.
Very dramatic sky. Snaefell looks beautiful, what's the elevation?
The rain has just started and already the atmospheric pressure has lifted. Sending it over to Tom and Hyde.
Any thunder & lightning? The storm clouds are super gorgeous.
Storm looks like it was getting close. Nice shot.
Nice photo shot. The weather is better these days over here. No so hot and humid. Have a nice weekend.
What a wonderfully descriptive post. I feel like I'm there with you after reading this. I love the shot. There is so much variety in the sky.
Sounds like you definitely have some photo possibilities ahead.
I'm surprised it has been so hot there in June. I'd have thought the weather would be moderated by breezes off the water. Hmmmm.
A storm is fast approaching, better get indoors soon. Nice post I like the tree on the side in the foreground.
The storm hit about 30 mins ago. Internet connection went down. Terrific thunder and lightening. Back on for now but sure connection will go again soon.
I hope that at least you have cooled down a bit! Nothing worse than wet heat and a closed house.
Great picture // hope it cools down for you!
Looks like the skies around here lately, except no high heat or humidity, and not very much rain either. Yet I love the smell right before rain comes into a country. And also the fresh after. Plus thunder and lightning is exciting.
It's kept me up. In Onchan roads flooded.
Those are beautiful clouds, but you can't always trust a pretty face. Keep your slicker handy!
Babooshaka: I so enjoyed the sky before the rain, what a nice capture my freind.
A mixed blessing.
I see a dramatic sky that is angry about something!
Yes, that is a very dramatic sky. We had two people struck by lightning yesterday in the Boston area . . . just reminds us of who's boss.
this one is a wower!
What a dramatic sky. I like so much this photograph!
Happy Sky Watch!
The sky is full of hope and the miracles only the Earth can give you.
les nuages sont superbes
clouds are superb
nothing like a good rain to keep my tomato , basil, rosemary, and sage plants watered. Then followed by hot humid sunshine. There is relief in the lemonade mixed with gin.
Looks like a mound of ice cream. Thanks for the visit and have a nice weekend.
That's a great one!
It definitely looks very threatening! Impressive photo. I would be glad if this heatwave is over and normal summer weather is on its way!
Think we are due to have a share of it today. Will be a relief from the humidity. Be ok we get clouds as pretty as these.
Great photo but I for one am glad that the heat has now passed for a while. I work in an office which can only be described as a caravan and we have all been cooking on gas mark five.
I dream of taking photos like that.x
10.23 am it has just hit here. There was a bit of thin sun earlier. Now it is bouncing off the roof and I've just shut all the windows - the automatic rain-sensor on the kitchen skylight doesn't work.
Just had a huge flash of lightning so think I'll switch the computer off now.
Great shot!
I love your own description here! :)))
Beautiful!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Love how you captured the impending drama!
We must have called all the rain clouds over our town and left a few for you!
Hope all who need rain, find some relief and those, in the N.E. of the USA find some sunshine!
Oh no... I think I hear more thunder!
~Maria
you've got a great synthesis of colours in that photo
love the way the blues and blacks are combined with the white and grey
Stormy & dramatic - nice capture!
I can smell the rain in this photo! Have a great weekend :)
I love this shot - great photo!Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment! S
thank you when you visited the home village of pages and beautiful photos here! nice weekend:)
Summer storms, I like 'em!
Better a storm wash away the blues.
Beautiful shot! =) We are finally getting some cooler days so that we can start functioning again. And I do know that what we consider too hot is normal in other parts of the world. =O
falling on my head like a memory...
Love your description... lemonade day.
Brooding I'd call it.
You are very poetic this week, Babooshka. That isn't a sky you would want to stop and argue with, is it! Thanks for visitng my alien invasion!
Janice.
Beautiful but menacing sky ! One thing the whole world has in commun is the sky !
Spectacular sky, Babooshka!
What kind of sky do I see? The blue sky of course, but you knew I would say that I suppose. Have a great weekend!
Hubble, bubble toil and trouble are headed somewhere it seems.
Glad it missed you it arrived here 02.00am.
Sun is out again today though. Have a great weekend.
Very nice layering in this photo. You get a good feel of depth. Hope you did get some rain out of it.
Summer storms are a wild ride around here too but we haven't had a drop since I got home. I really like that BW of the passageway as well B!!! Well done as always.
V
Still no rain here, though it has been threatening. A good storm is what we need to shift the humid, sticky air.
Weather...moan, moan moan!
Peace & beautiful cloud.
I like the 'peeking' effect! Good shot!
Wow! Those are very dramatic and stormy looking clouds. No rain here but grey clouds passing over today :)
Lemonade? You sure it's not a milkshake day?
(*poke*)
now I see how our shots were alike. ;0
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