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07/08/2005 12:42:39 AM · #1 |
These pictures were taken back in 2004, by Jorn Olsen, from hastings, Nebraska.
They are some very cool clouds. |
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07/08/2005 12:59:07 AM · #2 |
Very cool indeed - never had heard of them before. Thanks for sharing :)
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07/08/2005 01:02:34 AM · #3 |
I have seen these once before in person in the Lake country in England. Spectacular and kept my attention the entire evening.
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07/08/2005 01:03:34 AM · #4 |
| wow fantastic looking clouds, never seen anything like that here. must be a northern hemisphere thing ! |
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07/08/2005 01:05:09 AM · #5 |
thats insane, never seen anything like that
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07/08/2005 01:10:13 AM · #6 |
| Amazing! Puts every wierd cloud I've ever seen to shame!! |
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07/08/2005 01:13:18 AM · #7 |
its a bunch of michelin tires
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07/08/2005 01:16:48 AM · #8 |
Amazing effect. Looks like the clouds are melting
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07/08/2005 01:33:03 AM · #9 |
At second look, I'm wondering what people of ancient times would do when they see something like this? I've no superstitions of any sort but I'd be hard pressed not to see that in person and wonder if some really foul @#$%$ was about to happen!!
My only wierd cloud photo (sorry for noise artifacts in the sky):
The initially posted cloud seriously weakens the "wierdness" factor of my photo, but I'd really like to know what kind of cloud this is. I have a feeling it's fairly common. The day this cloud formed, half the neighborhood was outside looking at it in wonder. We all probably thought the same thing... nuclear explosion? Here?
Message edited by author 2005-07-08 01:34:17. |
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07/08/2005 01:41:12 AM · #10 |
| I've seen clouds like that only one time, when I was living in Austin (TX). It was quite remarkable... |
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07/08/2005 02:05:07 AM · #11 |
I see them a lot here, but I like to follow the stuff around.
Mine own. |
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07/08/2005 02:51:43 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by aboutimage:
The day this cloud formed, half the neighborhood was outside looking at it in wonder. We all probably thought the same thing... nuclear explosion? Here? |
This cloud formation is a common sight east of Denver in the summer afternoons during Monsoon season. I don't recall the scientific name but they are the thunderstorm clouds. I have pix of a similar one that I later found out hosted the tornado that devastated Limon, CO (big news at the time for the Denver Area, early 90's) It was interesting to see some of these clouds start out as mere whiffs about 10 in the morning over the mountain to the west and grow, rain hard by the time it got to town and become monsters as they marched off to the east. I DO know that this shape of cloud we often called an "Anvil" a lot of times you can't see it 'cause it's too close and you are under the "wings".
I did try on several occasions to follow one to catch lightning photos but they travel fast and the time I had the best conditions I was too low on fuel to get very far....guess I should go visit my sis in Kansas and wait for the clouds to come to me!! Not! Little scary for me in that area during tornado season!! I like my desert! |
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07/08/2005 05:47:38 AM · #13 |
Fantastic example of mammatus clouds they are... normally form under the anvils of cumulonimbus (thunderstorms) and can produce spectacular effects at sunset when only partly illuminated from beneath. I've managed to get shots of them a few times, but nothing like that. You've a better chance of seeing big mammatus beneath supercell storms though and they're not terribly frequent over here in the UK!
Your cloud is a Cumulonimbus Ristyz and you can really see what's going on thanks to your angle. Low down you can see the air billowing up then it flattens out when it get's to the ceiling of the weather making part of our atmosphere (troposphere). On the underside of the anvil you can also see bits billowing down which are probably mammatus, just like the ones in the initial post of this thread. You should have got some captures of this storm after dark with a 10-15 second exposure too... they light up like a chinese lantern!
Weather photography is my thing in case you hadn't guessed, so if you fancy looking at more cloud pictures, take a look in my galleries at photoweather. More photos of storms can be found in my chase accounts too, though many of these are more a log of what was seen rather than being especially photogenic.
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07/08/2005 08:31:24 AM · #14 |
I never studied Latin, but I'm guessing that the name mammatus has some relation to the word mammary? If so, it's funny to think of the poor lonely man who looked up at the sky and first named this type of cloud:)
Those are great shots. I've seen them in Colorado a few times, right before tornado warnings. Very eerie to see in real life.
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07/08/2005 09:08:38 AM · #15 |
I am not a weather expert but the anvil/mushroom like ones may be a type of cumulonimbus cloud.
One "mushroom cloud" I took east of Greeley, CO aobut this time last year. Seem to precede violent storms/tornadic activity, in this case anyway. Reported funnel clouds near my mom's in Yuma, CO (northeastern CO-almost KS) about the same time.
I love these types of pics and those mammatous ones are unbelievable!
Message edited by author 2005-07-08 09:09:10.
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07/08/2005 09:11:42 AM · #16 |
We get mammatus clouds here in So. Colorado several times a summer. These were from my front yard.
 August 2004
 June 2005 |
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07/08/2005 09:16:56 AM · #17 |
| This thread has generated 4 faves for me and a fav photographer. |
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07/08/2005 09:21:57 AM · #18 |
Wow! Those clouds are so awesome!!!! Thanks for sharing this site!
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07/08/2005 09:30:08 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by rex:
This thread has generated 4 faves for me and a fav photographer. |
Thanks James!! (C:
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