Photo/s of the day. Because then there was this storm.

[moonvoice]

According to the news, today was the hottest day in Perth in 2 years
(but not the hottest day in Ellenbrook).
So we sweltered through the day.
My knee kept saying, 'Pia, it's going to rain.'
And then it did rain. And it thundered. And there was lightning. And subsequent bushfires. And then a glorious moody sunset. The colours were just unreal.

Comments

[bunny_m]

Oh, they are all wonderful, but the last two especially are glorious!

*squeees!*

[moonvoice]

It was so beautiful! *bounces* I hope you got some decent storming your way too!

Icon snap!

[shimmerhawk]

Wow, those colors are unbelievable. Bush fires sound pretty scary though. Here we're having the warmest, driest winter that I can remember; it doesn't even seem like a real winter.

Thanks again for sharing things like this. They're so interesting and pretty to see!

[moonvoice]

They were so gorgeous; I didn't even manage to catch the vibrancy of the pinks/roses in the sky.

[hrafn]

The *glowing* oh my god the glowing!!

[moonvoice]

It was extraordinary, especially in the last few minutes before the sun actually set. Glen and I stood outside and watched the whole thing. The sky was just the most glorious, saturated colour.

[redsixwing]

Fire weather makes the best sunsets.
Unfortunately there's the bit about the fires. =/

Lovely photos, though!

[moonvoice]

True that; although these clouds weren't coloured by fire, the fire and smoke had disappeared about an hour before the photos were taken. This is just the awesome glory of some of the Perth sunsets.

[redsixwing]

Oh, that's even better! /relief

[moonvoice]

Yes! Huzzah for lack of fires. There was one quite nearby, but emergency personnel got there quickly, and it was raining so hard anyway, so that helped. Thank goodness!

[contrarywise]

Wow, those are epic clouds! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[moonvoice]

My pleasure. :)

[silverjackal]

Very striking! You would enjoy (if one can use such a term given the potential danger) the skies out on the prairies here in summer. Often cloud formations form which could precede tornados (it's rare, but possible), and one sees the most amazing range of colours and shapes and layers, etc. I've seen times where there's obviously wind of different speeds happening at different levels in the atmosphere, so that the clouds below were square and soft and just hung in the air, drifting gradually, while above them there were long streamers *racing* past. I've also witnessed a case (sadly when I did not have a camera with me) where the clouds formed a wall, perfectly straight, vertically. On one side, clear sky. On the other, a towering mass of rust and green and grey, with moving vortices in them. I was very careful crossing that line (I was driving) because the wind shear was incredible. I had never encountered such diverse and active skies until I came to this country, and I can see that Australia (or at least where you are) is the same. It is remarkable.

[moonvoice]

I bet I would enjoy those skies very much; especially as I like open areas of landscape anyway (and would very much like to see prairie).

I love clouds, I am becoming a bit of an addict, and have realised just how spoiled I am in Perth, Western Australia, with our big skies and low pollution; and I bet it's very similar where you are, just with more cold! :D

[white_rabbit]

Nrggghhh. I so wish I lived closer too. Seeing it in person must have been even more striking.

[moonvoice]

It was very cool. We stood outside and stared for ages!

[stephbg]

I love that last one in particular - it looks like a galactic dust cloud. I took a lot of photos of the sky at the same time but haven't managed to trim down the candidates for posting.

[stephbg]

...and I've just put some up on Facebook, because it's 2:30am and I sure as hell can't sleep even with the aircon.

[moonvoice]

Yeah, bloody weather. I will go check them out!

[moonvoice]

I saw on Twitter that you'd gotten down to 20 photos - that's an entirely respectable number! :D

[feralkiss]

Ooh wow!!!

[moonvoice]

*bounces*

[ariestess]

Wow! Those pictures are incredible!

[moonvoice]

The clouds were amazing!

[ariestess]

They certainly look like they were...

[clare_dragonfly]

Gorgeous.

[moonvoice]

We were so spoiled for cloud cover, it was simply awesome.

[sundog]

That last one just makes me amazingly joyous.

[silere]

Mmmmm.. Skiiiiieees. <3 Beautiful pictures. I miss our colorful skies, but winter here is usually either gray and overcast, or piercing blue with white fluff. Though it's not much of a winter, this year.. the warmest i've ever seen in michigan. We don't have any snow to speak of, where i am. It's more like April than January.

/ ramble. :d