Wednesday 17th December 2025

A magical mist-veiled island appeared to Dae-Am Yi (Member 64,103) in Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. Its forested peak was wrapped in Stratocumulus lenticularis, also known as a cap cloud since it is forming directly over the island peak. This is a stationary lens-shaped cloud caused by moist air cooling as it flows up and over raised ground like this. Shreds of Stratus fractus clothed the island’s wooded slopes, while its steep shores were ringed with a fine layer of advection mist condensing as the warm, moist low air flowed across the cooler sea surface. In the sky above, puffs of Cumulus mediocris built on gently rising air currents. Does science dispel the magic? We hope not. We like to think it adds to the mist-ery.




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