Cascades - Cascades

With high alpine lakes, waterfalls cascading down cliffs, rivers and streams, they don’t call them the Cascades for nothing. 🌧️ The North Cascades has an abundance of water due to the orographic effect or the rain shadow effect. 🌧️ The orographic effect occurs when air masses are forced to flow over high topography. As air rises over mountains, it cools and water vapor condenses. As a result, it is common for rain to be concentrated on the windward side of mountains, and for rainfall to increa

Cascades of crystal: Mount Taishan's waterfalls frozen mid-air

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