Cloudy with a chance of UFOs
Sand, sea and mountains – Cape Town has so many natural elements to lose yourself in.
While you’re looking up, take in the dramatic clouds synonymous with the Mother City – they’re anything but normal.
Have you ever wondered about the wispy formation that decorate the sky or the UFO-looking ones that appear ready to attack?
They are in actual fact a direct product of weather patterns and climate. These are our favourite cloud formations that grace the Cape skies…
Table Mountain’s tablecloth
Folk law has it that the tablecloth was created by a smoking contest between the devil and a pirate known as Van Hunks. In reality, the cloud cover is called Orographic clouds which develop in response to the forced lifting of air by the earth’s topography (mountains for example). The air passing over a mountain move up and down as it moves downstream creating the tablecloth effect.
Source: capetownetc.com