Sunrise and Pine

by Rob Hemphill

Title

Sunrise and Pine

Artist

Rob Hemphill

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Photograph - Photography

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This image is unedited. and taken with a Nikon D850 DSLR camera.

Morning skies are often dramatic in Ireland. Here we have plenty of high cloud cover to catch the sunrise light projecting from behind the hills in the distance. The Scots pine tree is one of the last remaining on the farm as they have not been able to stand up to the high winds we get more frequently nowadays.

Cirrocumulus appears almost exclusively with cirrus some way ahead of a warm front and is a reliable forecaster that the weather is about to change. When these high clouds progressively invade the sky and the barometric pressure begins to fall, precipitation associated with the disturbance is likely about 6 to 12 hours away.

A thickening and lowering of cirrocumulus into middle-étage altostratus or altocumulus is a good sign the warm front or low has moved closer and it may start raining within less than six hours.

The old rhymes "Mackerel sky, not twenty-four hours dry" and "Mares' tails and mackerel scales make lofty ships to carry low sails" both refer to this long-recognized phenomenon.

Other phrases in weather lore take mackerel skies as a sign of changeable weather. Examples include "Mackerel sky, mackerel sky. Never long wet and never long dry", and "A dappled sky, like a painted woman, soon changes its face".

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January 8th, 2020

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