Mt Taranaki, shrouded in dense cloud. Seen from Opunake Beach, Taranaki, New Zealand. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
For much of last weekend when the boy-child and I were away, clouds filled the skies of the central North Island. It is common for low skies to completely obscure Mt Taranaki, but here the outline was still visible, shrouded in dense, swirling clouds.
Zimmerbitch 
We have just survived 27 days of rain out of 30 days in March (Vancouver, BC). The dense cloud just made the sky flat and grey most of the time. It might have been more bearable if it looked like this.
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Wow! I’m guessing rain in Vancouver is probably fairly common, but that sounds positively over the top. It was the first time I’d seen cloud like that over Mt Taranaki. Usually it’s either completely clear (and totally spectacular) or the cloud is so low you wouldn’t know a mountain was there. 🙂
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Please pass the rain to Cape Town South Africa, our dams less van 25% full and last 10% can’t be used. Risk of running out of water before rainy season start
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Nice textured picture
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I would love to! We had huge storms at the beginning of the month with floods that wrecked houses and businesses and left our dams so full of silt that we have to conserve water because the filtration system can’t process all the extra particulate in the water.
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There’s some weather coming in for sure.
Leslie
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Clouds are one of my favorite things.
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Mine too. When I was a kid I used to lie in the backyard staring at the sky looking for “characters” in the clouds I could make stories about. Now I am a total sucker for any cool-looking cloud formation that I can photograph.
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I am the same! I love looking at the clouds with my children and asking them if they can find the (insert whatever I am seeing here). Lots of cool moments doing that.
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Yes! The boy-child and I used to do that too.
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We saw clouds much like these in Yosemite. They’re quite something.
janet
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Beautiful clouds and yosemite … what a great combination 🙂
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So true. Yosemite period = great. 🙂
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🙂
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Wow – you get some amazing skies!!
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Definitely lately. Worth getting up early for!
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Wow amazing clouds!
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🙂
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It looks very beautiful though…nature at its best!
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🙂
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Great capture Su
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Thanks Raewyn 🙂
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Terrifyingly awesome clouds!
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Weren’t they amazing. I had never seen the mountain with clouds like that before and I could have spent ages just watching them. 🙂
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