It's Tuesday so we were down at the beach as usual with our coffee, tea and two Dunkin' Donuts. I was kind of idly looking at the sky and then began to realize the presence of these Cirrus clouds moving in. They are just spectacular in their beauty in a blue sky, so I quickly jumped out of the car and snapped a few photographs with my iPhone. These clouds are high clouds, usually seen at between 20,000 and 66,000 feet. They are made of ice crystals, as you can imagine because they form so high where the temperatures are very cold. On a standard day the temperature at 25,000 feet is about -30.0 degrees Fahrenheit! But what this is really all about is how incredibly beautiful nature can be! What a beautiful thing to see on an ordinary day! Oh, I nearly forgot - these clouds are also known as "mare's tails, which would be easy to imagine, given their appearance.
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