A rare sight in Ronda

Greetings, fellow Steemians!

While living in Ronda, Málaga, in southern Spain several years ago, I got to witness some interesting things. Ronda under a heavy fog is a rare sight, indeed!

After a night of some pretty intense rainfall, I awoke to find the city engulfed in a dense fog. I snapped a few shots off on my way to find breakfast (café con leche y media mollete con aceite y tomate) and then head to work.

The first image and the next one are both shot near Ronda's New Bridge, which spans a deep gorge with a sizable waterfall below. When the wind and temperature is just right, air currents are forced upwards, causing fog to rise from the bottom of the gorge almost like steam. The next image shows the result!

As you can see, the fog seems to billow up above the bridge. During rain storms, the air currents can become so intense that the rain will actually "fall" upward! The unwary, umbrella in hand, are in for a shock at times like that. A few steps onto the bridge, the updraft rips umbrellas from hands, inverts them, or simply destroys them. Disgusted, many visitors toss the mangled corpses of their umbrellas on the side of the street.

If there were a good vantage point from inside, where I could have taken images unseen, I might have taken an action shot of an umbrellacide. Instead, I bit my lip and tried not to laugh!

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