The billowing growth of a cloud on a warm day is perhaps the clearest sign of a thermal, with the cloud capping the rising air as foam does the rising bubbles of a beer, which is why pilots use clouds to help plot their paths.
"Beyond them cloud-capped snow-covered mountains rose thousands of feet above us".
With clouds capping the mountains, we tracked the coastline and the bush pilot pointed out whales swimming the channels and a "ladder" where countless bears, following exactly the same route to climb a steep knife-edge ridge, had worn treads into the vegetation.
Fluffy white clouds cap mountains and pepper hills with shadows as if imitating subtle designs on a 12th-Century celadon vase.
"Have you gals been to the Cloud Cap Inn? That's hitched to the mountain with wire cables.
In this work, a novel, cloud cap-like and phosphorus/nitrogen co-containing biomass carbon material derived from mushroom as cathode host materials for lithium sulfur batteries were fabricated by a facile H3PO4 activation method.
Northwards, a layer of cloud caps the tops of Kit Hill and Hingston Down, but lower slopes around old mining settlements such as Harrowbarrow and the Silver Valley show up as vivid green fields, divided by hedge-banks topped with the copper-coloured crowns of oaks.
If you are on a mountain and a cloud cap descends, expect bad weather and seek suitable shelter.
These lens-shaped clouds or "cloud caps" don't happen everywhere they tend to only form over mountain ranges and peaks due to the way that winds travel up the slopes.
The excessive stonework made me realize the power that one perfectly placed stone has, like the Cloud-Capped Peak in the Lingering Garden.
This year he raised the baggage charge for the summer holiday season and, following the volcano ash cloud crisis, initially capped the level of compensation to passengers.
