Skywatch Friday

No interesting Similkameen skies all week, -  until last night, and then pure golden beauty in the midst of a wild thunder and lightning storm.

It was a hot, humid day with a few desultory thunderheads around.

It started to rain up valley, to the west

but the sun still shone on the toe of K Mountain

 As the storm moved down the valley the light changed to gold, even as the rain started to fall

A faint rainbow reached up from the mountain in an arc across the sky

towards the north there was still blue sky but the clouds were suffused with the light of the setting sun

the golden glow in air and clouds

eventually the storm moved off over the hills towards the east, all of the time being guided by the grumbling of the thunder and bright flashes of lightning

the heavy rain was doubling welcome, first to cool the air and secondly to inhibit lightning strikes and forest fires, and to aid in controlling the fire high in the mountains in the Lower Valley

the garden thought it was just pure bliss, freshly washed with cooling rain

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