Tuesday was a good day to go to Amen Ridge and watch the cloud races. As you see, the clouds were racing up Blue Hill Bay and over Mt. Cadillac in Acadia National Park, moving in a northerly direction (to your left) on this perfect derby day. It was clear and warm with temperatures that almost reached 50 degrees (F) and the snow had melted from most of the open fields.
These are stratocumulus clouds, the mixed breed that is part stratus (“spread out”) cloud and part cumulus (“heaped”) cloud. Their dual heritage makes them a type of “twain” (archaic for “two”) cloud. They’re low racers that usually fly between 2,500 and 6,500 feet above the Earth. (Image taken in Brooklin, Maine, on March 8, 2022.)