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Rain-bearing cloud

Rain-bearing cloud

The setting sun illuminates a cumulo nimbus cloud. The Māori term for this rain-bearing cloud was okewa.

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Photograph by Alastair McLean

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Basil Keane. 'Tāwhirimātea – the weather', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 2-Mar-09
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/tawhirimatea-the-weather/3/1