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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Mammatus Clouds

Jorn Olsen works for the Dutton-Lainson Co. in Hastings,NE, and lives by Heartwell Park next to Hastings College. The stadium lights are at the Hastings College stadium just east of his home. The clouds are called Mammatus clouds! . They do not precede a tornado, or foretell a storm, but are formed when the air is already saturated with rain droplets and/or ice crystals and begins to sink. The worst of the storm is usually over when these kind of clouds are seen. They are quite rare, but really beautiful.
 

 

 

 
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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

there is no way them are real clouds...if so that really blows my mind

10:03 AM  
Anonymous Joe-G said...

Well, anonymous... see a quite reliable source (Wikipedia) about this matter (Mammatus-clouds):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud

10:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Those have to be the sickest clouds I've ever seen. Wow. I hope I can witness something like that.

8:52 PM  

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