Posted on 02/12/2023 5:49:02 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: When do cloud bottoms appear like bubbles? Normally, cloud bottoms are flat. This is because moist warm air that rises and cools will condense into water droplets at a specific temperature, which usually corresponds to a very specific height. As water droplets grow, an opaque cloud forms. Under some conditions, however, cloud pockets can develop that contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. Such pockets may occur in turbulent air near a thunderstorm. Resulting mammatus clouds can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side. The mammatus clouds pictured here were photographed over Hastings, Nebraska during 2004 June.
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April 21, 1967, the sky looked like that, I’ll never forget it, and neither will anyone else in Northern Illinois. The city of Belvedere was hit by an F4 tornado that killed over 20 people, a good deal of them school children who had been loaded into buses.
It was the same color, too.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/visuals/vintage/ct-belvidere-1967-tornado-vintage-photos-20170418-photogallery.html
Danger Danger Will Robinson!
Those are serious downdrafts about to invade your life.
“What are you, a f’n weatherman?”
Usually, you have to go to a San Francisco bathhouse to see a scene like that.
I would NOT know about that!
Great post!
BOOBIES!
So I heard...
*cough*
I was just wondering why "mammatus" always makes me think of Dolly Parton . . . .
Saw those once in SoCal. It was a wild weather day.
An alien spacecraft descended thru those clouds and was then shot down by a F-22....
The SF crowd? Well what can I say. Those are Boobies. Sorry about the reply delay. I've been busy. Wife's out of town so I have to do everything for a month.
Ridiculous amount of stuff she does!
;-)
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