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This cloud in New England looks just like the Patriots logo

Published Nov. 15, 2016 2:26 p.m. ET

Cameron DaSilva

The NFL season is nearly upon us, and it appears as though the football gods are trying to prepare fans for Week 1. On Saturday night, a woman snapped this photo of a cloud on her drive home from Maine, which has an uncanny resemblance to the New England Patriots’ logo.

“As soon as I saw the cloud, I immediately pulled over and had to get out and take a picture,” the woman told NBC News 10. “I thought it was a mixture of the Patriots symbol and The Old Man On the Mountain, which being from New Hampshire, I thought that was pretty awesome.”

Indeed, it is pretty great (assuming it's not Photoshopped, which it better not be). Yet, strangely enough, this isn’t the first time a “Patriots cloud” has appeared. Another fan took a photo of one over South Attleboro, Mass., in October 2015.

Just a few months ago, a lightning strike over Lambeau Field looked just like the Detroit Lions' logo.

Week 1 can’t come soon enough.

Looming large. @Patriots cloud over Warner, NH. Photo: K. Frohock Photography pic.twitter.com/DCNygdCpum via @ErinWMUR
— WMUR TV (@WMUR9) August 23, 2016

A viewer sent us this photo of the @Patriots' logo seen in clouds. NBC 10 pre-game coverage starts at 5:00. pic.twitter.com/ijyACFP51V
— NBC 10 WJAR (@NBC10) October 29, 2015