Warm and gray

05/12/12, 6 pm looking northwest

Saturday, May 12th was a finer day than this looks like, a day with scattered high clouds and a light breeze with a high just below 80 degrees F, this was what the sky looked like when I was able to paint. Overcast. Gray. Warm. Humid. With just a few light spots breaking through. Oh well.

Warm and cumulus

03/19/12, 2 pm, looking north

The early spring warmth continues with a high of 77 degrees F--the average high for March 19th is only 61 degrees. This March may be a different version of the adage, "In like a lion and out like a lamb."  March 2012 may come in and go out like a lamb, no lions involved.


We had a sky covered with big soft cumulus clouds--a day that the sky looked more like summer than early spring or very late winter.

Warm and cloudy

01/17/12, 9 pm, looking east

Tuesday was overcast most of the day with frequent light showers amounting to only a trace of rain. The high was 62 degrees F slightly lower than the forecast of 65. With uniformly overcast skies, there was little interesting cloud formations until after 5 pm when the clouds broke up into jutting cumulus forms that allowed vistas of a pale cerulean sky. Sorry that I was unable to paint at that time.


I was consoled by these little white puffs that rode the northeasterly winds at 9 pm. That's the way this year project has worked, serendipity. Look up and there they are, silhouetted against a gray sky, little white puffs of cumulus clouds looking like they are very busy and have someplace important to go.

Cirrus clouds

Here again are the heralds of changing weather patterns, the cirrus clouds. I've noticed that cirrus clouds show up about 72 hours before a frontal system. These sketchy cirrus clouds covered the sky on Saturday morning, November 26th, which was a warm and lovely day. 


With a high temperature of 70 and a low of 54 and breezy sunshine all day, it did not feel like November. This was a day to treasure and remember deep in February when I'll be longing for the warmth of the sun on my face.