Weekly photo challenge: close
Cloud close to the Rock? Or just the usual Levanter?
A cloudy day in June, when later the sun would shine right through.
The Levanter is a Gib phenomen. A breeze hits the eastern side of the rock, the water in the breeze condenses, and we end up with a unique cloud hanging over the Rock.
Not sure if this one was a Levanter cloud or not, but still, either way, the clouds are awful close to Gib, and the weather was close too.
I think that meets this week’s challenge. More or less.
Photo taken two days ago.
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Thanks for the pingback, and for anyone else, some beautiful photos on this link.
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Thanks Mike and great Red Arrows pic for anyone interested.
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Fascinating subject and great photo. I haven’t heard of a Levantar so thanks for explaining and sharing your photo. 🙂
Elizabeth
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Thanks Elizabeth. I like to look for something different with the photo challenge (when I do it), so I thought this one would fit.
The Levanter is a peculiar Gib meteorological phenomenon, caused by the local geography. I should probably have posted a pic of the cloud hanging over the Rock as well, but was too lazy to search my files 😀
Loved your pix on the same topic.
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Thank you! 🙂
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Great photos, so I’m following you now 🙂
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Same here TY! 🙂
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But do I have all your blogs? 😀
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Thanks for the link
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That sounds very ‘sea fret’ like 🙂 Is a the Levanter the same type of thing?
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No, it doesn’t have the same softness of a seafret. It’s actually quite a dense cloud, that literally sits on top of the Rock. The only resemblance to a sea fret is that you can walk out of it if you are far enough on the western side of gib (or elsewhere) eg far north or south and into bright sunshine. As we are in the town, though and against the side of the Rock we always get it. But as you can see in the photo, it’s not misty, just a cloud mass. We do get mist but only occasionally and then, interestingly, it is sea fretty 😀
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Ah! Yes now I’ve looked again I can see its more cloud like.
Soft, what a lovely, accurate way to describe a sea fret 🙂
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We get them in Spain occasionally but not for long. The sun quickly burns it off.
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Fascinating! I just did a post on Gibraltar, but had heard nothing of this phenomenon. Were you visiting or did you live there?
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I live here. It doesn’t happen all the time, so you may not have seen it.
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Just what we need here. Was 40.5º C today. Still 37.7º at 1930 hr. Though great weather at the U.S. Open 100 km west of us.
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The sun soon burns it off though. Pretty warm your way. We’re just in the late 20s here. Spain will be topping 30 this month though.
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I have never heard of this particular cloud (was going to write phenon……) but for some bizarre reason I cannot spell the word today. Moody photo, I like it!
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it’s a local thing. normally at this time of year we have nothing but blue sky, so at least a bit of cloud breaks the monotony of endless sunshine.
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We have the marine layer along the coast 60 miles west. If it is thick we know that cool weather is coming our way. High temps and unemployment is all España needs this summer.
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We rarely get thick cloud in Spain, although we do get a light sea fret (mist off the sea). Today was a sheer heat haze though! Still only 32/33 degrees so not quite as bad as America.
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what an amazing sky! good one!!
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Difficult to capture the feel. Must try for some better shots of it where it is really low down the Rock.
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