Streets and streets of stratocumulus in my sky today. These are lines of ordinary sheep IE cumulus clouds parading close together in lines.
It’s said they don’t, but sometimes do, produce rain. They graze the skies between 2000 and 6500 feet high.
Two thousand feet? That’s only 609.6 metres!
They’re a low cloud. These are the ones that you bump through while in a plane on the way down.
Stratocumulus has seven variations which we’ll come to as they are seen. The most famous, howver, is a stratocumulus that presents as a ‘roll cloud’ a long tube, that appears in Northern Australia in September and October.
This phenomenon is called the Morning Glory. Seen it anyone? I know there are some Australians among you. I’ve never seen it despite spending a few months in the area in the 1980s.
Rita de Heer 