The following is a completely true story.

February 17, 2024: I woke up a little after 10am. I made myself some breakfast and a cup of coffee. I looked out the window as I sat on the couch, and I saw a cloud that looked exactly like a cat.

I'd never seen a cloud that looked so much like a cat. This was like a perfect 3D render of a cartoon cat's head, almost like something generated by AI. It looked a bit like Garfield. It had two ears, two eyes, a nose, a mouth. The two eyes even seemed to have two little pupils in the center.

I stared at it for a while, then I thought that I should probably take a picture. I didn't have my phone with me, so I ran to the bedroom to get it.

By the time I had made it back to the living room, the cloud had already changed. It still kind of looked like a cat but not as much as before.

I took a photo anyway:

Maybe this outline will help:

The photo wasn't really worth posting anywhere, so I just put my phone away and went about my day as usual.

My wife came home about an hour later. I was sitting on our bed at the time. She walked into the bedroom and asked me, "Did you hear the news?"

I hadn't heard the news. I didn't have any idea what she was talking about.

My wife told me that she had just seen a post on Instagram. Sadly, one of our friends' cats had died. He had escaped from the house and had been hit by a car.

We had just gone on a road trip to see them three weeks before. We met their cats for the first time during that visit and played with them.

The cat's name?

Nimbus.

They had named him Nimbus because he was fluffy like a cloud. As in, a cumulonimbus cloud.

RIP Nimbus.