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... and you are welcome to post images you think are cool, too!

I came across this lenticular cloud image a while back.

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Source: The Cloud Appreciation Society © Gianandrea Sandri/Roberto Cavallini[/i]

Isn't that a great image? I wish I'd been there to see it myself!!

ETA: bystander!



(Thanks!)

This is good, too -- a vivid corona:

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Source: The Cloud Appreciation Society © Andrew Lautin[/i]

And this one's for Rob; it's a "Dorset doughnut."

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Source: The Cloud Appreciation Society © Sally Atkins[/i]

What a very annoying site that is -- the cloud appreciation society, that is. If you Google it and get there, you'll find that they still won't show you individual images; you have to start their slide-show app instead. And then you'll discover that clicking an image is the only way to progress the slides -- backwards, no matter where you click the slide. But I did finally see the doughnut, though why Dorset should be blamed for it, I'm not sure.

Rob

You can select by type here: http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org ... &pagenum=1

This page has a link, right under the large image, for other images of the Dorset doughnut: http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org ... image=5107

Cool Brocken spectre image from NOAO:
NOAO: Brocken Spectre (and Glory)
Credit: Roy Lorenz/Adam and Miwa Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF

rstevenson wrote:though why Dorset should be blamed for it, I'm not sure.

The formation was photographed by several cloudspotters, over Dorset, U.K.

Dorset likely wants the credit for it!

This is cool, too; I suppose this is a fallstreak (or punch hole) cloud.

Hi owlice:
Two others, in the skies of my city.





Grettings
Cesar

Thanks, Cesar! I recognize the second as mammatus clouds; is the first cumulonimbus?

Edited to fix typo

Hi Owlice:
Yes, first is a Cumulonimbus.
I took two photographs the same day, only a few minutes between them.
All this just two weeks before Hurricane Alex came to town.
Regards
Cesar

Owlice, they are called mammatus clouds, literally "breast clouds"!

I, too, wish I had seen many of the clouds posted here, particularly that red-rimmed UFO-look-a-like lenticular cloud!

Ann

Ann, yes, I know; just a typo on my part. Shouldn't track down car parts by phone and post at the same time!

owlice wrote:Dorset likely wants the credit for it!

This is cool, too; I suppose this is a fallstreak (or punch hole) cloud.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Mystery UFO halo over Moscow

A BBC audio slideshow about noctilucent clouds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10635796

Dang, bystander, I was scooped... last year!! (Thanks for the link!)

geckzilla, thanks for the BBC4 program(me); comes in very handy for me!