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eppur_se_muova

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:39 PM
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New cloud type? (BBC)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8076000/8076805.stm

I'm not sure the "Cloud Appreciation Society" can be cited as an unbiased source. :)

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Richardo

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:42 PM
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1. Looks like an Edvard Munch painting, if it's real.

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Nihil

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Tue Jun-02-09 03:18 AM
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15. Agreed ...

... and as this one was taken in Scotland, it's quite possible that
Munch could have seen something similar ...

It definitely makes an impression doesn't it? :-)

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donco6

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:42 PM
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2. I'd call that -

UFOAbouttoLandius clouds.

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ContinentalOp

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:42 PM
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3. Psh, new cloud type?

Those are obviously just heavy layers of chemtrails. :P

Beautiful photos though!

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JuniperLea

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:45 PM
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4. This looks like the clouds in those "gravity wave" photos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnkzeCU3bE

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eleny

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:46 PM
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5. If I looked out my window and saw that I'd dive under the bed

It's seriously scary .

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enlightenment

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:47 PM
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6. Sometimes a bias is a good thing.

I love looking at their cloud photos.

My brother and I saw this type of cloud on a trip from Prescott, AZ to Las Vegas about five years ago. We were driving west on I-40 and saw this massive, roiling, multi-coloured cloud above the hills to the north. It looked like the cloud effect in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" - as the mothership drove up to the mountain. We pulled over to look at it and we weren't the only ones who did.

Absolutely spectacular shows Mom Nature puts on sometimes.

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wtbymark

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:51 PM
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7. looks like an extended Sierra Wave

make that a desert from the left of the picture outwards and lenticulars would form at the end of the wave. I love my clouds here in the high desert

google images of Sierra Wave and Lenticular clouds

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xchrom

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:51 PM
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8. don't know what it is -- but

:scared:

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alphafemale

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:54 PM
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9. Reminds me of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" nt

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Psychotronic

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Mon Jun-01-09 08:16 PM
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10. Beautiful

We get clouds and colors just like this every so often here in Southern California near the San Bernardino Mountains. A combination of moist and dry atmospheric layers, smooth laminar winds and standing waves from the mountains, along with just the right sun angle seems to be what it takes.

I've noticed from some of the other responses that this photo looks frightening to a few, and I agree, but when you are under it, looking up, it isn't at all. It is simply magnificent.

Kinda gotta be there.

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Richard D

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Mon Jun-01-09 09:14 PM
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11. Just don't . . .

. . . cast asperatus around.

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applegrove

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Mon Jun-01-09 09:36 PM
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12. That is so weird.

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byronius

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Tue Jun-02-09 12:38 AM
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13. Beautiful.

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Trajan

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Tue Jun-02-09 01:17 AM
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14. It's beautiful ....

Edited on Tue Jun-02-09 01:19 AM by Trajan

Are they Mammatus clouds ? ...

Wicked looking .....

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eppur_se_muova

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Tue Jun-02-09 07:04 PM
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17. I forgot to mention mammatus clouds! So I'll just say ...

google "mammatus clouds" for lots of titillating photos. :)

(spellcheck suggests replacing "mammatus" with "mamma's" :D )

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redqueen

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Tue Jun-02-09 10:50 AM
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16. Gorgeous!

Thanks so much for that link. :)

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IndianaGreen

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Tue Jun-02-09 11:36 PM
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18. I have seen something similar in Indiana, two layers of air of different temperatures

One is on top of the other. Usually followed by real bad weather, such as tornados.

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