The Grand Canyon is famous around the world for its beauty, with those sunrise pictures a favourite across social media.
What you don’t see very often is the Grand Canyon filled to the brim with clouds – kind of like an inverse Table Mountain tablecloth.
Not really, but you get where I’m going with that.
Arizona Central below:
The video shows a full cloud inversion, which is when cold air gets trapped close to the ground by a layer of warm air, and the moisture turns into condensation, creating a sea of thick fog.
Clouds swirl and push up against the Canyon’s Rim as if it were a sea shore. Those standing on the Rim feel as if they are walking on clouds.
We have photographer and videographer Harun Mehmedinovic to thank for this one – very soothing, as an added bonus:
Harun described the experience:
“It’s kind of like another planet, practically, the way it looks,” he said…
“That was purely luck, to be honest,” he said [of filming the cloud inversion]. “You didn’t feel the depth of the Canyon because the fog reached basically the Rim, so it got up as high as where I was standing. It was a little surreal”…
“I found it a little funny, seeing the tours coming by, all of them were really angry they couldn’t see the Canyon and I kept telling them, ‘What you’re seeing here is so much cooler,’ ” Mehmedinovic said, laughing.
That reminds me of some of the tourists who visit our national parks, overlook something like a pangolin sighting, and complain they didn’t see a buffalo.
There’s no pleasing some people.
[source:azcentral]
