Blue; Cirrus; Cloud; Sky; White; Weather; High Altitude
Description
Cirrus clouds, known as Mares Tails. Forming above 5000 m (16,500 ft) in temperate zones and above 6000 m (20,000 ft) in tropical zones where they can mark the frontal of a tropical cyclone.
Alps; Champery; Morzine; winter; snow; cloud sea; cloud; weather; inversion; meteorology; mountains; hillside; bleak; Col de Chesery; frontier
Description
WESTERN ALPS - winter on the Col de Chesery, astride the Franco-Swiss frontier above Morzine. The view is to the N.E. over the cloud-filled Champery valley to the Dent de Morcles (2969m./9741 ft) above Martigny in the Swiss Rhone Valley. ref: 0898