We say goodbye to July with this nice memory of yesterday’s stratocumulus clouds breezing over Blue Hill Bay while, in the distance, Mount Cadillac is performing its perpetual breach out of Acadia National Park.
However, in the foreground, we already see the flowering of goldenrod that arrived here ahead of schedule. It’s not eager for fall; it’s been accelerated by July’s heat and dryness. We’re in a moderate drought already.
Let’s hope that August brings us more rain clouds than July did. Rather than these happy bundles of stratocumulus clouds, we need to see some nasty, lower-level clouds with “nimbus” (from the Latin for “rain”) in their names and dispositions. Nimbostratus clouds that rain steadily all day would be best. (Image taken in Brooklin, Maine, on July 30, 2022.)