Skies of our Colder Days

December to February are the coldest months in our hot tropical climate. We now experience 18C in the mornings before sunrise while we are still in bed, thanks God, as this is already cold for us. Then the temperature rose to about 28C at mid day, just lovely for our hot-bloodied bodies. We are not familiar with temperatures like these, but we love it. In my case, i am hoping that these temperatures lengthen for a few more weeks after February. But that might not be possible, as March is already the start of our dry season with high temperatures and high humidity, unease and  discomfort among us. While we are at this comfortable conditions, we might as well maximize doing many things, be efficient outdoors or else we might relegate those jobs for next year.

These colder temperatures are just spill-over effects from our temperate neighbors in the north like Siberia and Northern China. They are in deep winter so the cold winds reach us still colder, despite the distance!  This time also our skies are the most dramatic. In the afternoon clouds are low in the horizon making our sunsets lovelier than during the dry season. And I will show you some of them here, again taken from my 5th Floor Window!

 The top photos are taken in the same day.

 The above three photos are the progression of the sky also in one day.

This one photo seldom happens, but i took it as a comparison that sometimes our sun is not very bright too, as seen from here. Maybe the conditions at the horizon did not cooperate to give our usual red sunset, however the clouds are still making the horizon with dramatic landscape. But this scene actually is still early, it gets a bit brighter and redder a few minutes after!

Do you agree?

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