Unusual clouds - in pictures

[n2doc]

From shelf clouds to supercell clouds, those white and fluffy things in the sky are not always, well, white and fluffy. Some, as you will see, are just downright weird and wacky. Many are a portent of bad things to come.








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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/aug/23/meteorology-cloud-shapes-in-pictures#/?picture=395113570&index=2

[MichiganVote]

1. I love clouds

[bunnies]

2. awesome! nt

[DJ13]

3. Growing up, I was always told I had my head in the clouds

But they never looked like that!

Awesome, thank you.

[shraby]

4. Totally awe-inspiring! I had a cloud book that disappeared on me..I think on of the grandkids

took it and never brought it back.

[TheDebbieDee]

5. Those are beautiful photos. Thanks for bringing our attention to them........

Has anybody here ever seen row clouds? They look like the newly turned-earth rows of a garden. I'll see if I can find a pic...........

ETA: I found 3 or 4 Google images for row clouds but I don't know how to put the images in this post. Er, uhm, could someone tell me please? If not, I'll post the links.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

6. If copy and paste doesn't work, just give a link.

[WillParkinson]

11. To put a picture in your post...

You need to have the picture hosted on a site like http://www.photobucket.com and copy the link from there and post it in your message.

[philly_bob]

7. n2doc, you contribute a lot to the content of DU.

You have a good eye. Thanks for your work.

[Merlot]

8. Or as some call them, space ship cloaking devices

Especially that last one. Great pics, thanks for posting!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Teabagger Heaven....

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[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. BUTTS! Butts! theyre BUTTS!

.rofl:

I love clouds, definitely!

[locks]

10. do we know clouds or life

Thank you for the wonderful pictures of clouds. Reminds me that as Joni Mitchell sang though we've looked at clouds from both sides now, we really don't know clouds at all. And even if I've looked at life from both sides now, from up and down and still somehow, it's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all.

[valerief]

12. Gorgeous! nt

[Yo_Mama]

13. That lenticular cloud

might give rise to rumors of spaceships? I was struck by its similarity to the "saucer" type of space ship sightings.

[shireen]

14. if you like clouds, join the Cloud Appreciation Society

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Also on Facebook.

[Lucky Luciano]

16. Cool clouds! nt

[NJCher]

17. cloud impressions

That first one's scary. Looks like a giant wave of frosting.

The second one makes me expect God is going to pop out at any moment.


Cher

[alfredo]

18. Joni Mitchell sings of clouds and other such things.

[a kennedy]

19. A W E S O M E

Love clouds. Thanks for posting these.

[Bette Noir]

20. I saw clouds like #4 when I was a kid.

When I asked what they were, adults just said, "Vandenburg." It took me YEARS to piece the story together: missiles test-fired from Vandenburg Air Force Base left con trails very high up, which were twisted by winds traveling at different directions at different altitudes. The glow was from the sun, already set over the horizon at lower altitudes, possibly reinforced by florescence. I'm not sure about that last bit.

[gadjitfreek]

21. There is nothing unusual here...certainly not "portents"

OK, a comment from a storm chaser here...

The first shot is a shelf cloud typical of a Great Plains high-precipitation supercell. Thousands of them every year for the last umpteen-thousand years. Nothing "portentous" about this.

The second shot is mammatus clouds on the underside of a thunderstorm. Most strong thunderstorms have them. Nothing unusual here at all. The blue color is an artifact of white balance.

The third is a satellite shot of a garden-variety thunderstorm with a nice anvil, decent flanking line and a small overshoot. Thousands of these happen on Earth every day. There is nothing at all unusual about this.

I went through the gallery...absolutely nothing unusual or portentous there. It's the same old story...those who don't know are susceptible to making shit up.

It's hard to take people seriously when they take ordinary phenomena and attach woo to them. There is enough about global climate shift to be worrying. Nothing here is a symptom of that, however.

[refrescanos]

22. shapes

I see the Crazy Horse Monument (not built yet)


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