Cloud choir I witnessed the unfurling of this cloud story whilst driving homeward from the West. As the road takes me on my travels winding away from skies afar, persistently I am encaptured by a wanting skyscape as it travels alongside me, or behind me, or at times, ahead, wanting to be near, to whisper its secrets, that are perhaps my secrets; it wants me to have them back now.
“Tangled skeins of cirrus clouds lie above some scattered altocumulus. Cirrus clouds form at very high (and hence cold) levels, and differ from the lower cloud species in that they are predominantly composed of very small ice crystals – not water droplets. Altocumulus are water droplet clouds which form at middle levels – the prefix ‘alto’ meaning ‘middle’, like the altos in a local choir”. Dr Tim Gibson