In search of weather

For today, cloudy weather with some rain was forecast, so at 5.30 AM I was at my post. The sky was rather clear, with a pinkish tinge ("Red sky in the morning..."). Then from the north/northeast some very high cirrus came drifting in. No rainclouds, although I imagined I could hear warnings of the imminent rain in the birdsong around me.
An hour or so later, the sky was bloody well clear again. As always when there is little or no wind, the river seemed to simply drain away, not stream but drain: at ebb the waterlevel drops at a steady pace, as if around the bend in the river, someone had opened a gigantic drainage hole.

 

 

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