The weather’s been picking up around here and we’ve been seeing a lot of these cumulus numbers cloud formations recently.

Here’s one from the 5th floor of the St Vincenz hospital..

They used to be called cumulo nimbus (or something quite similar), nimbus coming from the Latin meaning “a luminous cloud or halo surrounding a supernatural being or saint”.

That would be Ms jb, then, doing a wonderful job of looking after me in my hour of need in the abattoir.

Given that there are many around, though, they then got renamed cumulo numerous, causing all sorts of problems between people who spell properly and the Americans (who supposedly wanted to spell it numeruz), so it got simplified to cumulo numbers.

I think that’s the story, anyway.

The usual suspects are on board, but I can’t get the links working from this medieval hospice.

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