Stratocumulus (Sc)

The temporal development of an orographical Stratocumulus cloud between 500 and 600 m is shown here. The cloud was formed at the Tavola Mountain in the North of Sardinia. This rock massiv which is 6 km long and 1 km wide with an average altitude of 500 m mainly consists of limestone and dolomite.

The images were taken from different sites at a hot summer afternoon within a period of three hours. The cloud existed all in all around four to five hours and dissolved in the evening, clearly before sunset within a few minutes. The oil painting created by Jawlensky shows a similar scene.

ScOro1-5.jpg: S. Borrmann, Porto San Paolo, Sardinia, September 1998

Alexej von Jawlensky, "Two white clouds" (1909) Oil on Board, 33 cm x 43.8 cm, private ownership in Switzerland