The Colony Sky

Today we are again expected to receive some nasty weather. This is what the sky looks like as the leading edge of the storm moves in. Scary!

Alto-cumulus clouds are "larger rounded masses, white or grayish, partially shaded, arranged in groups or lines, and often so crowded together in the middle regions that the cloudlets join." These clouds at times resemble the cirro-cumulus, but their much larger size and lower altitude, two to three miles high, distinguish them readily. These clouds, too, when accompanying cirrus clouds, forewarn us of impending storminess.

When clouds appear like rocks and towers,
The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.