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Title: Rare Clouds
Post by: Malthus on June 16, 2009, 08:36:06 AM
Just wanted to pull a Timmay and share. I thought these rare cloud pictures were very cool.

http://www.zmescience.com/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds-w-pics-and-videos

Once, while canoing through northern Quebec, my father and I saw a spectacular cloud display: a self-contained thundersorm consisting of two perfectly symmetrical round clouds, one above the other, connected by a sort of funnel, with lightning flashing between the lower cloud and the upper. It drifted past on an otherwise perfectly cloudless day - and the setting sun stained it a bright red. Looked very much like an alien spacecraft of some sort ...

Edit: I see that this type of cloud is called a "shelf" cloud. I've never seen one before or since.
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: KRonn on June 16, 2009, 08:40:47 AM
Those are pretty cool. Wasn't expecting some of the very different looks, like mounds in the sky. Good stuff.
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: DontSayBanana on June 16, 2009, 08:42:35 AM
Nifty. The mammatus clouds are kinda creepy, though...
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: Pedrito on June 16, 2009, 08:52:04 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on June 16, 2009, 08:42:35 AM
Nifty. The mammatus clouds are kinda creepy, though...

The only time I saw them live, a severe hailstorm followed (egg-sized ice chunks) and the wind was so strong it pulled down two large trees in my father's garden. Luckily the hail was extremely localized, it destroyed the trees but the house, 30 meters away, was untouched.

Creepy indeed.

Nice pictures btw  :)

L.
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: saskganesh on June 16, 2009, 09:06:35 AM
cool stuff.

I've seen sequences of roll clouds before.
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: Malthus on June 16, 2009, 09:06:49 AM
I've never seen most of these types of clouds (I've never seen Mammatus clouds, for example).

One rare weather phenominon I've seen that was very impressive was the steam rising from lake Ontario when the weather was extremely cold - the lake was extruding great geysers and billowing clouds of steam. A ver bizzare sight.
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: lustindarkness on June 16, 2009, 10:24:52 AM
Those mammatus clouds do infact look really weird.

:cool:
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: HVC on June 16, 2009, 10:43:22 AM
The only one i've seen is the mammatus one. Although i've only seen it twice, i find it very interesting to be at the leading edge of a storm where it pouring down, and a step away it's sunny.
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: BuddhaRhubarb on June 16, 2009, 11:19:32 AM
cool. I've seen a few of those real oddball ones (roll ones mostly) but never the Mamamtus
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: Malthus on June 17, 2009, 12:45:22 PM
Here's another nice site:

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: The Brain on June 17, 2009, 12:52:57 PM
Some nice clouds there. :)
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: garbon on June 17, 2009, 05:11:19 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 17, 2009, 12:52:57 PM
Some nice clouds there. :)

Hey, wanna check out my clouds? :perv:
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: The Brain on June 17, 2009, 05:16:25 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 17, 2009, 05:11:19 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 17, 2009, 12:52:57 PM
Some nice clouds there. :)

Hey, wanna check out my clouds? :perv:

Nah.
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: garbon on June 17, 2009, 05:17:01 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 17, 2009, 05:16:25 PM
Nah.

:Embarrass:
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: DontSayBanana on June 17, 2009, 06:40:16 PM
Living right on a river that feeds off the Delaware Bay, I do get to see a fair number rolls (saw a couple over the weekend) and the occasional shelf.
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: jimmy olsen on June 17, 2009, 07:06:37 PM

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/new-cloud-pictures/photo2.html
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.nationalgeographic.com%2Fnews%2F2009%2F06%2Fphotogalleries%2Fnew-cloud-pictures%2Fimages%2Fprimary%2F090603-02-new-type-cloud-sunset_big.jpg&hash=c00d8815c618f2f2916eea587cf60b81b1e8d7a5)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jr_JYe1yoQG3-SfHL7U8rYlNs4eAD98OMNBG2
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fap%2Fmedia%2FALeqM5gr2JA2rnlOZZtlvAAZy6i4mT_fKA%3Fsize%3Dl&hash=37577b8581740cb33a3eb557ca168c828ce299a3)
Title: Re: Rare Clouds
Post by: Habsburg on June 17, 2009, 09:10:25 PM
Ed Anger is my Rare Cloud!  :mmm: :contract: