A sunset cloud detail from Topeka, Kansas. This photo was shot on 1/12/2015, using a Canon PowerShot A1000-IS.

Usually, in Kansas, if someone sees a cloud that looks like this, they run for their basement. However, in this case it wouldn't be necessary; while it looked like a tornado at the time, it was clearly not a tornado, but just an odd shaped, and perfectly harmless cloud.

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From Maple St. Beach Winnetka IL.

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Lago Maggiore - Ticino - Switzerland

can u see it

Rollei Retro 80s.

Rodinal (R09) 1-100 1 hour

Fuji GA645zi

Sunset over Cundy's Harbor, Maine

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καφεδάκι με τον Ορέστη!

Couldn't resist a few sunset photos after doing a session at the beach last night! :)

this was last evenings hiding place

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Clous trails over the canal in Skipton

with my Canon point and shoot

St Ives, Cornwall

Back in 2007 - before the cane industry went belly-up.

From Hali`imaile looking mauka toward Makawao on a day when there were storms in the vicinity. This shot almost got discarded until I got a new monitor. It was too dark on my old one. Even now it's too dark due to my polarizing filter. I keep it up just as a reminder of my learning curve.

The clouds are about right, but I wish the sky were a bit lighter.

This is where I go for my daily walk .

Taken with my Leica M3 on kodak 100UC

Big poufy cloud ~ what more do you need to know? ;o) ... At first - it kind of made me wonder if there weren't some governmental testing grounds *over there* or something, but ~ I haven't grown a hump on my back or anything ... yet ... but stay tuned - there's still time ...

Update:

Okay - so I consulted a weather expert friend and he was kind enough to explain this cloud formation to me ~ this big poufy cloud I thought was so cute and harmless isn't exactly so cute and harmless ...

"The name they give it is called "Cumulonimbus incus"

A cumulonimbus incus (Latin incus, "anvil") is a cumulonimbus cloud which has reached the level of stratospheric stability and has formed the characteristic flat, anvil-top shape. It can cause a supercell and then a tornado.

A cumulonimbus incus is a sub-form of cumulonimbus capillatus."

I see these quite frequently in my area of North Texas and thought they were just big poufy clouds ~ from now on, I will have to be more aware of them (and definitely have my camera at the ready!) ...

Thanks to Nebraskasc for the cloud ID!

For years we told our kids that clouds were made here ..... well it's not that far off the truth! :-)

Clouds lit by the setting Sun over the Elder Range.

Secuncia de OCASO

Monterano

Original inside

The same cloud

Iona Beach, Richmond, BC, Canada

Great clouds accompanying our storm today. Could actually see the seething movement in it. Impressive.

As found in Bryce Canyon National Park

Not quite a full moon behind the clouds

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Volcano 'Koryaksky' shot during the ascent to volcano 'Avachinsky' (Kamchatka, Russia).

cloud rolling in

El viento, en ocasiones, hace que las nubes adquieran formas interesantes. Al fondo, a 20 kmts, 400 metros, El Puig de Randa.

The wind sometimes causes clouds acquire interesting shapes. In the background, 20 kmts, 400 meters far away, El Puig de Randa.