Sunday 22 November 2009

Autumn Colours No., 3











We live at about 550metres above sea level and at this time of year that is roughly 150 to 200 metres below the cloud level. However we have a weird phenomenon at the end of each autumn when the cloud level over the lake builds up and the air temperature causes the cloud to either rise or fall and sometimes rather than be just underneath it, or worse, in it, we find we are above it... it doesn't last long and usually as winter's battle over autumn is won, the cloud rises and we live beneath the blanket of cloud while the snow capped mountains around us stay in brilliant sunshine.

The pictures above taken from my balcony show the cloud lying low over Lake Geneva which is approx., 380 metres above sea level...

Interestin' eh?

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