clouds are fascinating, but even more so when viewed through a car windscreen, especially in the rain, when all the outside world happens soundlessly and over it all the clouds tumble.
Ahem.
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That's fine, as long as the car isn't moving at the time you are cloud-spotting!Be safe ! Of course, you also need good windscreen wipers if it's raining. There is certainly a cosy sort of feeling, sitting inside in comfort whilst hearing rain falling on the roof. I don't have a car, but I get the same effect in my bedroom beneath the cottage's sloping roof, hearing the rain drumming on the tiles. The most amazing skyscape I ever saw from inside a car was when travelling North along the M1 in England one Summer, near sunset. To the left of the motorway was an almost clear sky and a brilliant red sunset, to the right of it was a sky-full of dense blue/black rainclouds with a brilliant rainbow. As it was so near sunset, the arc of the bow was about as high as it could possibly be, and an unbroken arc. It was a very eerie sight, as the road formed an exact dividing line between the two very different sky vistas. Happy Cloudspotting! GWW
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I should add that I was, of course, not driving the car whilst looking at the amazing sky-spectacular. As a back-seat passenger, it was perfectly safe for me to look directly right and left to enjoy the view from the moving vehicle! GWW
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David, what on earth are you talking about. I have to totaly disagree with what you are saying.
"when viewed through a car windscreen" How can you compare that with viewing naturaly, as you say "especialy in the rain" when you are probably not able to see much anyway?
The only benefit I can see of viewing clouds through a car windscreen is that when it is raining you don't get wet!
When I am driving I pay more attention to the road, when I am a passenger and see an interesting cloud formation I wish I could get out and observe.
I don't see how a car windscreen can add to the enjoyment of cloud spotting in any way!
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I can see what David is getting at. But agree that outside a car is usually better! However, in a slight cross-reference to the cloud film posting, I remember a scene in Peter Weir's The Last Wave (about crazy apocolyptical weather hitting Australia) in which it's raining while we see the rain from inside a car as the windscreen wipers hypnotically chug back and forth.
There's something 'childhood' about that feeling. And maybe, like certain music that suits a car journey, there's a certain feeling to cloud watching from the car!
A big sky, unenclosed by windscreen limitations, can be best, though.
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