mackerel sky

Little, if any rain most often follows a mackerel sky.

The north was a mackerel sky of little, fiery golden clouds.

In the film "Plenty", mackerel sky is mentioned and shown.

However, the most common reason for the occurrence of a mackerel sky is an old, disintegrating frontal system.

"How about those 5,000 words explaining the difference between a macroeconomist and a mackerel sky?"

She learned that a mackerel sky was a sign of fine weather and mare's tails meant wind.

"It was a mackerel sky," says Rønneberg, looking out at the mountains again.

It was cloudy, but with a thin-layered mackerel sky, through which the full moon shed plenty of light.

The showy pink ones, bright- pink, under a mackerel sky.

The whole world was suddenly ablaze, the mackerel sky overhead flaming to a surrealist pattern.

Mackerel skies and mares' tails Make tall ships carry short sails."

As photographed in color by Toni Parks, the figure stands, an animated black silhouette against a mackerel sky.

A mackerel sky still tinged with the reds and oranges of a fiery dawn glowed above the horizon.

The phrase mackerel sky came from the fact that it looks similar to the markings of an adult king mackerel.

A mackerel sky meets the horizon.

As a published author, her latest publication, Mackerel Sky, has enjoyed American distribution.

Dunbar had sketched the dawn mackerel sky, for eventual inclusion in a painting, many years before in Kent.

Beneath pale mackerel skies.

There was a mackerel sky, with the clouds dropping on the mountain-tops till you could hardly say which was which.

Drumlin has released two albums, Mackerel Skies and Paper Flowers.

A mackerel sky or buttermilk sky describes a sky mostly covered by altocumulus clouds.

The songs on Mackerel Skies, released in 2008, are Nova Scotia heritage songs.

I could actually see right through it to the mountains beyond and a mackerel sky, the scaling of the cloud all silver like a dusting of snow.

Where's My Pony / Mackerel Sky High (1995)

Extensive altocumulus formations, particularly if they take the form of undulatus are often referred to as altocumulus mackerel sky.