Wet season clouds already?
If so that would give summer an early start.
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A prescribed burn south of Tamiami Trail in Big Cypress Nat’l Preserve as seen about one mile west of Oasis Visitor Center looking east on February 3rd, 2015 |
This is actually a prescribed-burn formed cloud.
Instead of sunlight heating the peninsula causing a cumulonimbus cloud to form, rising heat from a prescribed fire caused a cloud to form in the cooler upper atmosphere air.
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Here’s a closer look |
If it were summer the cypress dome above would be green,
And full of water.