Posted on 06/27/2009 10:22:16 AM PDT by JoeProBono
These very strange cloud formations suddenly appeared in the sky around 8:30 p.m. when the sun was setting in Union Square Park in NYC today.
Moments before their appearance, people were casually sitting on the steps of the park entrance and carrying on as most New Yorkers do. Suddenly, there were sounds of gasps and one by one people held their cell phones up to the sky to photograph this strange occurrence.
These weren't the famed chemtrails, neither the Lenticular clouds that are mistaken for UFO's or the wispy metaphysical Sylphs often spoken about in spiritual circles.
These clouds weren't even similar to the new "Asperatus" clouds seen all over the world which the Royal Meteorological Society are trying to officially add to a new cloud category (an event of which hasn't occurred since 1951.)
It is interesting that these clouds appeared a few days after an interesting article appeared in Associated Press by Michael Crumb mentioning the woman in Des Moines, Iowa who photographed the apparently new formation in 2006.
Even if they turn out to be just a play of wind and light; the sight of them made quite a few New Yorkers stop there frantic pace, take their eyes off their Blackberry's and raise them up to photograph this magnificent sky.
I saw these clouds a number of years ago...there is a connection to the chemtrails.
Interesting,..we had them in the Mojave Desert also on THurs afternoon.
There’s something solid forming in the air,
And the wall of death is lowered in Times Square.
No one seems to care,
They carry on as if nothing was there.
-Peter Gabriel (Fly on a Windshield)
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother’s breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
That’s it - thanks.
I’ve seen similar clouds here more than once (upstate SC). Also like these but also aligned a bit like waves- imagine the bottom photo but in a parttern of waves or rows. Rather creepy looking actually.
Oh great link! the clouds I saw are actually these asperatus clouds not the above mammatus clouds.
They are appropriately named cloud formations ... while we’re on the subject here’s a website with a health reminder for the ladies... http://www.feelyourboobies.com/
That is what I recall as a kid. See those types of clouds - its time to think about going inside! (Or - up on the roof in one case to see if we could see a tornado!).
That’s udderly hilarious!
BM
Looks like an excised scene from Al Pacino’s “Cruising.”
Quite a beautiful picture, thanks. I’m still kicking myself for not snapping a picture. My current wallpaper is a shot of the sky out of my front window of an interesting cloud formation but nothing beats what happened the other day. I figure I’ve still got a few good years left so there will be other beautiful skys.
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