Me too. BTW... Thank you (again) for sharing this. I'm not sure the mods approve of "off topic" posts, but IMO we need a counterbalance for the volumes of nasty, horrid things we take in and research. The humor anons share and the beauty (like this) help heal the soul, so to speak.
Really nice. I was driving around in the wide open spaces and saw a lenticular cloud, not so striking as these, but same type, and the thing that struck me was that I went about 100 miles in an L around it and it never moved. Like it got there and the upper winds that formed it left so it just sat there, not shifting or drifting as clouds usually do.
Sounds cool. I like the look of many clouds, but haven't (to the best of my recollection) seen ones as spectacular as some of these. OP's video has one of the best of the iridescent pileus, imo. The one you describe sounds really striking as well. It's amazing to me, some of the beautiful wonders of the world I'm still discovering.
I've been thinking why these lenticular clouds look so sculpted. They remind me of sand bars in rivers, and maybe that's it: they are clouds that get in a little place between the rivers of wind high in the air, and several streams of air over and around them carve them into these crisp shapes.
It seems like the one you saw (in an open space) is due to wind streams, as you theorized, while the kind over mountains has wind waves added to the creation. The article below gives a decent rudimentary description of their formation.
Check these out:
https://search.brave.com/images?q=lenticular%20cloud
There were some amazing clouds formations ect. Thanks for sharing
Sure. And thanks for posting. Here are some more iridescent pileus clouds.
https://search.brave.com/images?q=iridescent+pileus+cloud&source=web
I would love to see some of those
Me too. BTW... Thank you (again) for sharing this. I'm not sure the mods approve of "off topic" posts, but IMO we need a counterbalance for the volumes of nasty, horrid things we take in and research. The humor anons share and the beauty (like this) help heal the soul, so to speak.
Really nice. I was driving around in the wide open spaces and saw a lenticular cloud, not so striking as these, but same type, and the thing that struck me was that I went about 100 miles in an L around it and it never moved. Like it got there and the upper winds that formed it left so it just sat there, not shifting or drifting as clouds usually do.
Sounds cool. I like the look of many clouds, but haven't (to the best of my recollection) seen ones as spectacular as some of these. OP's video has one of the best of the iridescent pileus, imo. The one you describe sounds really striking as well. It's amazing to me, some of the beautiful wonders of the world I'm still discovering.
I've been thinking why these lenticular clouds look so sculpted. They remind me of sand bars in rivers, and maybe that's it: they are clouds that get in a little place between the rivers of wind high in the air, and several streams of air over and around them carve them into these crisp shapes.
It seems like the one you saw (in an open space) is due to wind streams, as you theorized, while the kind over mountains has wind waves added to the creation. The article below gives a decent rudimentary description of their formation.
https://www.treehugger.com/how-lenticular-clouds-are-formed-4869052