Mammatus Clouds, Rare & Beautiful
December 7th, 2007 by Dunn
These photos were taken by Jorn Olsen.
He works for the Dutton-Lainson.Co in Hastings, Nebraska, and lives by Heartwell Park next to Hastings College. The other night he took these photos, the stadium lights are at the Hastings College stadium just east of his home.The clouds are called Mammatus Clouds. They do not precede a tornado, or foretell a storm, but are formed when the air is already saturated with rain droplets and/or ice crystals and begins to sink. The worst of the storm is usually over when these kinds of clouds are seen.
They are quite rare, but really beautiful.
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They look like scrotums
You just ruined the freaking pictures for me…
Gorgeous. Depsite the previous comment!
They are lovely, aren’t they? \
But I live in Texas–in the heart of Tornado Alley and very often, these do precede tornadoes or severe thunderstorms, at the very least…not always, but they’re often there as part of the calm before the storm.
Great photos.
LK
They look like breasts. I’d imagine that’s why they start with “Mamm-”.
amazingly beautiful
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In Texas they call them the fingers of god, they usually appear just before a tornado
I just saw these clouds in Minnesota a couple of hours ago, the sky was bright yellow.