What a great town! This is the view of Olympia, Washington, last night (June 17, Wednesday) around 9 p.m. Yes, those are the Olympic Mountains in the background, Capitol Lake in the foreground, and the clouds most everywhere else.

These are mid-level altocumulus clouds--one of the more challenging types of clouds to identify because they are so varied, occur in a wide range of altitudes (6,600 to 24,000 feet or 2-7 km above the earth), and because they look very different in the setting sun than they do in the daytime.