25 February · Potsdam · Midday

A recurring phase within the “Stripe-cloud-veil evolution” appears here as a stripe-dissolution into cloudlets: stripes loosen into a largely uniform, fine-grained sea of small clouds. Around midday, this cloudlet phase repeatedly forms and loosens again, without becoming fully dominant. Later in the day, as the final two images indicate, the evolution shifts in part: some stripes thin toward near-inconspicuousness, yet continue as a veiling, progressively muting the deeper blue into a paler, bluish cast. At the same time, other stripes still disclose their dissolution into cloudlets, so that both modes remain co-present.

The photograph renders the sky much bluer than it appeared in direct experience.