Whitecaps

We had winds the other day that were howling out of the northwest. As I was driving North along the harbor, there were whitecaps as far as the eye could see. There is a scale of wind speed called the Beaufort Scale, and in order for whitecaps to form, the wind speed has to be at least 17 MPH. When I got home, the wind speed reported at the time was 31 MPH with gusts to 41 MPH. Man, it was howling! I stopped to photograph this just because it has been quite a while since I had seen so many whitecaps, and because it was so pretty. It didn't hurt that there was such an interesting sky with complex layers of clouds as well.