On Sunday afternoon on the 22nd November 2015 a severe thunderstorm warning was issued while visiting my family in Stanthorpe…I love thunderstorms!!! How exciting it was when my son and I went outside to and saw all these amazing mammatus clouds all over the sky. Now these formation of clouds can be truly scary, as they usually mean very severe weather…so we quickly took some images and marvel at their unique shapes then raced back inside before the storm hit.
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~ Mammatus Clouds ~
How do they form and why do they have a strange shape?
First of all there name comes from the Latin word for ‘breast or udder’ but to me they look like bubbles all over the sky…they are in fact upside down clouds and form on the bottom of massive cumulonimbus clouds.
The theory is, that they usually form where very warm and very cool air both meet, different atmospheric conditions produce different mammatus clouds, they can look smooth, jagged, translucent or opaque depending upon the conditions…but no matter what, they look very impressive in the sky, take your pictures and enjoy them, then quickly take cover as they are very unpredictable and you most probably will get wet!!!
Wikipedia has more information on these rare cloud formations at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud
Please go to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) website where you can find out a lots of information about the different types of clouds in the sky at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/clouds/cloudchart.htm
How do they form and why do they have a strange shape?
First of all there name comes from the Latin word for ‘breast or udder’ but to me they look like bubbles all over the sky…they are in fact upside down clouds and form on the bottom of massive cumulonimbus clouds.
The theory is, that they usually form where very warm and very cool air both meet, different atmospheric conditions produce different mammatus clouds, they can look smooth, jagged, translucent or opaque depending upon the conditions…but no matter what, they look very impressive in the sky, take your pictures and enjoy them, then quickly take cover as they are very unpredictable and you most probably will get wet!!!
Wikipedia has more information on these rare cloud formations at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud
Please go to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) website where you can find out a lots of information about the different types of clouds in the sky at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/clouds/cloudchart.htm
~ Cloud chart from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) website ~
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