And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, August 30, 2021
Cumulonimbus capillatus in Santa María del Campo Rus, Spain
Notice the virga dropping from the top layer. As is falls it evaporates ahead of the main cloud building and churning just below it. And then the evaporated moisture sustains the lower level cloud and it builds even more.
Awesome shot.
ReplyDeleteNotice the virga dropping from the top layer. As is falls it evaporates ahead of the main cloud building and churning just below it. And then the evaporated moisture sustains the lower level cloud and it builds even more.
DeleteI love watching these beasts form and move.
ReplyDeleteThat is known in the aviation community as a Nymphocumulus - a big f**king thunderstorm.
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