Bearnasdale, Na h-Eileanan Siar

Sheep on the machair

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With lenticular clouds downwind of the hills on Barra. The clouds are the top of a lee wave after the disturbance caused by the hills. As air reaches the top, water condenses but then evaporates again as it descends the other side, leaving a stationary cloud despite the strong winds.

Uploaded to Geograph by Hugh Venables on 16 September 2006

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