Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The cyclone that wasn't

I was surprised to see what looked like a dusting of snow on the tops of the hills this morning – it was damp & sunny here below

Then out of the window of the bus I noticed what looked remarkably like a cyclone. Heavens – not another kind of freakish event sent to try us?

It was difficult to see properly with the glimpses we got through the houses just there – it looked like a perfectly round vertical column, but it did not look as if it were spinning

Then I looked higher in the sky – where there were the well spread remains of what was definitely a contrail. My ‘cyclone’ was just the lower part of that. There is a photo of a very similar one on this website here


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