Farmer Bob King picks up two newborn lambs that were born this morning at his farm in the Wiltshire village of Edington near WestburyPicture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
is a popular term for a sky covered with extensive cirrocumulus or altocumulusclouds arranged in somewhat regular waves and showing blue sky in the gaps. The pattern resembles the scales on a mackerel, thus, the name. In Germany and France they are known as ‘sheep cloud’, as their pattern resembles a flock of sheep, also they are sometimes called buttermilk sky, regionally. (from weatheronline.com)
