This photo is the Tinderry Mountain Range taken at 7:37pm, 2017 January 12, near the small town of Michelago, NSW, Australia ... specifically, on Monaro Highway, 1 km south of the turn off to Ryrie Street (into Michelago), and looking towards the east.
The white stuff covering the mountain range is not snow. They are clouds. But notice it is clear blue sky everywhere !
Is there a meteorologist, budding meteorologist, pretend meteorologist out there who can explain this phenomenon? (I think it is called orographic cloud / fog.)
By the way, the Tinderry Mountains are interesting to climb. Photos and an account of the climb are in my blog:
http://mntviews.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/tinderry-twin-tinderry-peak-nsw.html
Hi Paul what you are seeing with the cloud layer over the Tinderry's it is what we locally call a Sea Fog these cloud formations form right along the great divide mainly in the southern part its caused by the cool air being pushed to the top of the range by the coastal warmer air its my best explanation we get these regularly at my location at Nimmitabel they can roll over quite a distance sometimes over to Dalgety
ReplyDeleteThanks Rodney.
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