Warm Winter Evening

20 December 2022

The winter solstice is almost here. We are expecting longer and warmer days. But in India, the peak of winter is felt in the coming months i.e. January and February. It is expected to be severe and longer (extending till March) thanks to prolonged rainy season. Let's see how this winter season pans out.

Weather has been quirky over Bangalore. Back to back cyclone over the City is storming clouds all over the city rendering it dark for days. Constant whirls over the bay waters is resulting in annoying weather over the city. The gloomy weather is chilling the city and thus creating lousy environment. It feels frozen with temperature feel of 12c even though actual mercury is at 17c. With protracted absence of sun, cityzens were desperate to witness the sun god sooner. It was delight when sun shone brightly nearly after a week. Even though the cyclone did zero damage on city, the drizzle all through day was dreadful. The positive part of constant rains is improved AQI which was below 50. The worst part was during Cyclone Mandous timeframe when sun struggled to peep out through cloud barrier.

Nearly week after Mandous dissipated, the clear skies returned and winter mood is back in city. Today evening was a surprise again. This bizarre weather seems eternal. Even though the clouds were scattered, this setup foretells upcoming weather pattern. Something is brewing up over the bay to influence yet another wet weather over the region. Eventually, nature is the decider! We do not until last moment where the storm headed. Instead of pondering on uncontrolled patterns, lets enjoy what has nature given us today. 

While walking around the promenade of Amruthahalli Lake, we witnessed crepuscular rays thanks to scattered clouds beneath Sun.

Soon the sky turned stylish thanks to fluffy clouds adorning the sky. The sparse clouds were illuminated by evening sun and thus painting the sky with dramatic colours.

The clouds are back and there is prediction of lousy weather making a comeback. Need to watch further. Nature is such vague entity and a unpredictable realm. Anyway, for now enjoy the stylish sky backed by golden light of Sun. Such scenes transform urban land to fairy land

Timelapse something I missed today. Gazing at the patterns in sky, I yearned for colourful timelapse atop the apartment terrace. Finally, I was contented to witness the saga of colourful clouds in pictures

Tree vs Concretree. Who will win the battle in city?

The trees are shivering to survive here in city with unscheduled date of beheading. The mute living beings are obliterated by intelligent humans. The nature is also not quiet. Nature comes back with befitting reply to balance the environment. May be it is unprecedented cyclones, changing weather, it slowly trying to auto-correct the mess of human civilization. However we fail to understand this behaviour of nature. Unless we realize and internalize the cause of this quirky patterns, the nature will constantly bombard us with surprising weather patterns!

Some colourful evening on subsequent evening

The cirrus clouds stirs up cranky weather

But ends the day with beautiful colour!