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January 2020
Salish Sea, PacificNorthwest
Typically in winter we have what the weather folks call “unsettled weather”, which along with intermittent rain means lots of convection and cool clouds. These days I’m catching skies in mid afternoon on my daily walkies.
This beach is one of my regular stops. I like seeing how different the clouds are from day to day. You may be able to recognize the same rocks and islands and other landforms, looking toward the southwest each time.
Sky can be dramatically different even at the same beach same time but from a different angle.
Sometimes it’s the water I notice varying, as from tide to tide. Lately we’ve been getting very high tides, the last of the King Tides for this winter, the only times big driftwood can be floated from where it’s been resting high up on the beaches. At a different beach right now there’s a sea monsterish driftlog now parked below.
Looks totally different at low tide:
Same day as one of the above, from same angle even, but with intervening land and up on a low rise. Wish I could stay until sunset but I’d rather not be out on the road in the dark, safetywise.
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Break in the rain this morning here in the PNW islands, moderate SE wind.
That’s it from here today.
What’s up in nature in your area today?
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