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In La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos we can see how the peculiar lenticular clouds seem to settle just above the roofs of the buildings in Fuengirola, on the Costa del Sol.
The lenticular cloud is shaped like a lentil, as its name indicates, or like a saucer or converging lens. They are stationary and form at high altitudes in mountainous areas and isolated from other clouds.
Among mountaineers these clouds are considered a harbinger of a storm. Furthermore, on the one hand, glider pilots continually look for these types of clouds because the atmospheric system that forms them involves large vertical movements of air and, on the other hand, airline pilots avoid them due to the turbulence created in the air systems. rotor.
As the photographs have been taken at dawn, we see the sky colored by the candilazo, a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds show a wide palette of colors that goes from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is soft tones between red and orange. In a certain way, when this light passes through the clouds, it illuminates them and could be said to color them with those tones.
