The double rainbow over Buckingham Palace, where Her Majesty's death was announced to the kingdom, created a symbolic downpour reflecting the nation's mood over the past week.
One of the well-wishers spotted a unique cloud figure that resembles the late Queen on one of her young portraits riding one of her beloved horses.
The photo was taken on Sunday in Wembley, the northwest part of London; it mirrors the portrait of young queen Elizabeth riding in her royal uniform.
Eki Eguae, a 37-year-old man, spotted the 'royal' cloud on his way back from the shops near his house. He showed the cloud photo to his colleagues and said he couldn't help but think that the late Queen was looking over London.
The Cloud That 'Looked Over London'
The cloud that 'looked over London' is a cirrus cloud. Cirrus are clouds that are located in a high atmosphere. Its physical traits are Tuffy, patchy wisps that are water vapor turned into ice crystals falling from the atmosphere. According to the Daily Science Journal, because of the cloud's size and shape, they are carried easily by the winds of different speeds giving them curled shapes.
Cirrus are whiter during broad daylight compared to other types of clouds. Due to its thin and wispy form during sunsets, they tend to take the color of the sun, giving it a golden-orange hue.
Eki said that at first, he hadn't thought the cloud was like the Queen. But later, the enthusiastic cloud spotter thought that the young queen was active in horse riding during her early years of reigning.
As Eki talked to his colleagues, they all thought the queen was behind the cloud formation.
"It was really strange," he said, seeing the cloud just looked perfectly like a horse with someone riding above it, Eki told the Daily Mail.
He then mentioned that compared to the other clouds he saw that day, this specific cloud was so distinctive that leaves amazement on his face.
How The Cirrus Cloud Formed
During evaporation, the moist air from the ground rises upward to the part of the atmosphere where the humidity is colder. However, there isn't always a straight line separating the warm and cold air from each other to condense water droplets.
Some clouds with flat bottoms are fairly simple to determine where the altitude water vapor condenses because we know that this flat line is where the condensation process occurs.
New water droplets push the existing clouds upward when the vapor is at the bottom, hence why flat bottom clouds often have fluffy tops, as explained by Daily Science Journal.
The cloud's resemblance to the late monarch is due to some factors, the wind, the humid atmosphere, and the sun.
The late queen is known for her love of horseback riding. In a 2018 story of Harper's Bazaar, they showed a story of the queen riding a horse who was 92 years old back then.
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