New Cloud Formations To Be Named

Steely Dan · Jun 10, 2009

These look cool. Great picture.

More about these clouds;

The Royal Meteorological Society is now gathering detailed information for the days and locations where the asperatus clouds have been seen in an attempt to understand exactly what is causing them.

Officials will then apply to the UN's World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva to have the new cloud type considered for addition into the International Cloud Atlas, the system used by meteorologists across the globe.

:dance:

southcitymom · Jun 10, 2009

We should name them after Stephen Colbert, of course!

Steely Dan · Jun 10, 2009

southcitymom said:
We should name them after Stephen Colbert, of course!

:woohoo:

Kat · Jun 10, 2009

Thank you for posting! I am going to show these to my kids as soon as they get up

ziggy · Jun 10, 2009

Those are fascinating. How does a new cloud formation come to be?

Doodoo,doodoo, twilight zone music.

angela · Jun 10, 2009

Way cool! If I had looked up and saw those above my house, I probably would have been a little freaked out.

txsvicki · Jun 10, 2009

Wow, they're a little scary looking. Wonder if we've had them form in the U.S. It will be interesting to learn more about the clouds and the massive amount of heat that was reported they need to form along with moisture.

Boyz_Mum · Jun 10, 2009

They do look ominous!

I'd run for cover if I saw them above the house! :blushing:

delaney · Jun 10, 2009

i am pretty sure these are the clouds that form before the mother ship arrives.

noseymosey · Jun 10, 2009

If the pictures had been on a different website, I would of thought they were photoshopped. I would of freaked out too if they were over my house.

butterfly1978 · Jun 10, 2009

Have you ever seen the movie The Neverending story? If you have it looks kinda like the nothing, LOL.... Its absolutly beautiful

SheWhoMustNotBeNamed · Jun 11, 2009

Remembering cloud names was always one of my least favorite things in school. I don't know why, but I could never remember which ones were what. Those poor kids with another cloud name to remember. Haha. These are cool, though!

kittenish · Jun 11, 2009

angela said:
Way cool! If I had looked up and saw those above my house, I probably would have been a little freaked out.

I know! It looks like the sky is melting.

kittenish · Jun 11, 2009

I'd love to see these from an airplane. I wonder if they look different from the rest from up there.

I can imagine the whole town screaming (collectively, of course) "Armageddon!!"

And these aren't the same ones, but I've never seen them before and they're still as eerie! (We have boring skies over Missouri, I guess!)

Steely Dan · Jun 11, 2009

Thanks Kittenish. I should have posted pics too.

kittenish · Jun 11, 2009

Lol off topic but I was looking at this forum from my phone and it looks like it reads "new cloud formations to be named steely dan" on the Up to the Minute thread.

I was like WHOA WHAT?

Steely Dan · Jun 11, 2009

kittenish said:
Lol off topic but I was looking at this forum from my phone and it looks like it reads "new cloud formations to be named steely dan" on the Up to the Minute thread.

I was like WHOA WHAT?

And why shouldn't they be?! :snooty:

southcitymom · Jun 11, 2009

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

delaney said:
i am pretty sure these are the clouds that form before the mother ship arrives.

kittenish · Jun 11, 2009

Steely Dan said:
And why shouldn't they be?! :snooty:

I didn't say they shouldn't! :blowkiss:

Celeste · Jun 12, 2009

That first photo that kittenish posted gave me chills. It looks too much like the background of Munch's "The Scream."

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