A beautiful “mackerel sky” greeted us here on Florida’s Space Coast this afternoon. Like the scales of a fish, these altocumulus clouds create a fluffy pattern across the blue.
I set up the GoPro to film a short timelapse of these clouds as they moved across the sky, right up until sunset.
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A “mackerel sky” of altocumulus clouds in Rockledge, Florida.