Mackerel skies are beautiful, formed by high altocumulus clouds. I didn’t know there’s another term for this type of sky: a ‘buttermilk sky’. 
The reason for these clouds? The disintegration of an old weather system, so little if any rain occurs during a mackerel sky. When this sky coincides with the sunset, the effect is amazing. 
It was here, the colours getting richer and deeper, changing from moment to moment… 
… and then gone, but the cloud effect remains until the night is black. 
5 to remember
una caballa – a mackerel [fish]
un cielo abboregado – a mackerel sky
las nubes – the clouds
el término – the term [word]
el suero – the buttermilk
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Wonderful photos of a spectacular sky, and I learned two new words, or at least new connotations of familiar words. Thank you, Sandra, for such beauty and for vocabulary enhancement.
I’m going to come back to this one, just to savor.
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Vocabulary enhancement? SD
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Mackerel is a fish and buttermilk a drink I don’t like, so, yes, two new word uses (enhancements) for me. But the clouds! Send them my way – I could gobble all of them.
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