Spectacular clouds

[Duke John]

Just had to share this while looking for some cloud pictures. Nature continues to amaze me!

http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload9/cloud4.jpg

http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload9/cloud1.jpg

http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload9/cloud2.jpg

http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload9/cloud3.jpg

http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload9/cloud5.jpg

http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload1/cloud6.jpg

http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload1/cloud7.jpg

http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload1/cloud8.jpg

[Rodion Romanovich]

Amazing!

[Vladimir]

RUN FOOL RUN! Those are some of the angriest clouds I've seen.

[R'as al Ghul]

http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload9/cloud1.jpg

An alien vacuum cleaner? :help:

[edyzmedieval]

Aliens are coming to vacuum us off the Earth! :help:

Seriously, those clouds are amazing to say the least. :thumbsup:

[The Spartan (Returns)]

if you look at it, this one looks like a naked woman picking her nose.
http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload9/cloud5.jpg

[Moros]

Are you sure the 6th one isn't photoshopped or something?

[Duke John]

I couldn't believe it myself either. The lighting, texture and form is just fantastic. But it is a type of cloud called mammatus. See here for more pics: http://jornolsen.com/mammatus_slideshow/index.htm

From wikepedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus):

Mammatus (also known as mamma or mammatocumulus, meaning "breast-cloud") is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud, often a cumulus or cumulonimbus. Their color is normally a bluish gray, the same as that of the host cloud, but direct illumination from the setting sun and other clouds may cause a gold or reddish cast. Mammatus can persist anywhere from minutes to hours, diffusing and disappearing over time.

[Papewaio]

Awesome, showed the clouds to a workmate and he said that number 6 looked like an udder and then we scrolled down... another aptly descriptive name from the scientists.

[Kongamato]

Here is a website of a guy who chases supercell thunderstorms through Tornado Alley. You might have seen some of his photos from a web hoax that was debunked by Snopes. The perpetrators were taking his photos and claiming they were from Hurricane Katrina. The photos are actually just supercell thunderstorms.

http://www.extremeinstability.com/index.htm

My favorite picture from this site:
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/w1430.jpg

[Duke John]

Unrelated (should have called this thread Spectacular Nature), but here is an amazing video of an octopus using its camouflage:
http://www.break.com/index/octopus1.html


if you look at it, this one looks like a naked woman picking her nose.
More naked women for you :wink: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/science/index.htm


The photos are actually just supercell thunderstorms.
Excellent pictures, thanks for the link!

[Fragony]

Wow, absolutily amazing!

[Husar]

Really amazing, but scary at the same time.:2thumbsup: