Look at the changes...

...in the sky, as an avalanche of clouds eventually materialized.

I love these buildup periods just before rain will arrive, as at times the preliminary clouds gradually start to stream in. The World Cup Football is currently taking place, and a guy asked if I was streaming the games. Streaming? The only streaming that I know is about the clouds in the sky streaming in before it rains Lol. I only listen to the scores on our small transistor radio.

But enough said about football and such things, as I rather want to talk about the clouds. Change is a constant in the skies, as not one of the leading clouds before a rainstorm is the same, and the only thing that the scenes have in common, is that the clouds come in at a gradual pace. Every time that this happens, the clouds have different shapes. So, one has to be ready like here at the start of this post to catch the start of the procedures.

See how the change started to happen? The cloud is now bigger than in the first photo.

And here the inflow started to expand.

Look at the solid cloud coming in at the left bottom of the picture.

I whipped around the corner in the car to catch the main flow above the mountain, and an hour later the rain started.

Okay, my aim with the photos above was to show you the start of a rain storm.

We regard nature as a teacher, if one is prepared to learn, and we have picked up a ton of lessons over the past years. Fortunately, I was always an "outside" child, meaning that I was not allowed in the house during the day, as the women in the house, my gran and my two sisters were doing what women does in a house, and I was most definitely not welcome to partake in any of their stuff. So, nature and I became personal friends from a young age and to this day. Nothing better to slide down a high mine dump on a cardboard, and I had many adventures.

Have a look now below at four seagulls coming over.

When the gulls fly towards the south, we know that the rain will come from the north.

And when they fly in the opposite direction, likewise the rain will be coming from the south.

Our house faces the west and this means that we face the Atlantic Ocean, so we often see the gulls flying above the shores of the sea. My purpose with this post was to firstly show you the build-up of the rainstorm clouds, and secondly how the direction that the gulls fly teaches us where to expect the direction that the rain will be coming from. Incidentally the storm advancing clouds were coming in from a north-eastern direction, and later it changed to a full north direction.
Such is life.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
Until next time, cheers!