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I got this picture in between some rain clouds. I don't know the name of this mountain but it's in Iceland.
Quando tutto manca da fotografare basta alzar gli occhi al cielo e ...
When all misses to photograph enough alzar the eyes to the sky and...
Another Caernarfon sunset! That is one thing we do seem to get a nice lot of! I think because the almost daily rain seems to clear by sunset time (just!), and the remaining clouds give the perfect sunset effects!
In this pristine setting I can hear the diesel pump filling my fire engine. Just back from an early morning call and looking towards Joshua tree in the east.
Today the weather in Skopje changed many times. It was raining, than in certain periods the sun was triumphing, than the rain came again…
While making the short brake away from my computer, I made few picks to document those changes.
We might not have mountains in Houston but we have some pretty impressive clouds. Taken with my iPhone 5 using the Hueless app.
Sonsòn Antioquia Colombia
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Mammatus clouds are some of the most unusual and distinctive clouds formations with a series of bulges or pouches emerging from the base of a cloud. The shape of mammatus formations can vary widely; from the classic protruding shape, to a more elongated tube hanging from the cloud above.
Cumulonimbus clouds are also known as thunderstorms, these clouds are huge and often unstable. Mammatus clouds often form on the most unstable cumulonimbus, meaning that there is also a chance of hail, showers and lightning in the vicinity. Sometimes mammatus may form on other cloud types which produce no rain, though this is far less common.
Mammatus comes from the Latin mamma which translates to "udder" or "breast". Their striking appearance is most visible when the sun is low in the sky and their pouches are framed by the sunlight. This supplementary feature is a firm favourite with many meteorologists and cloud enthusiasts.