July 14, 2005
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These clouds look really crazy. I didn't know clouds could actually look like that. Some of the shots look like something out of Ghostbusters, when Gozer comes down to the top of that building and there's an otherwordly storm overhead. Or in War Of The Worlds when the aliens are coming down in the lightning. I mean, these clouds are seriously strange and awesome.
If you went outside one day and saw these outside your house, you'd probably freak out, yell at the neighbors, and then start praying to Zuul to save you.
Apparently this type of cloud formation is called "mammatus" and is very rare. Here's another time mammatus clouds made an appearance, and there are some good shots in Google image search. So these things are to meteorologists what a corpse plant bloom is to botanists.
The photos were taken by Jorn Olsen in Nebraska. Colin, why weren't you on that? I got linked via Boing Boing.
UPDATE: Amanda Lucas sent me a couple other cool weather pics from recent FL hurricanes.
Posted at July 14, 2005 5:44 PM | Comments (3)
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They're called mammatus because they look like boobies. Sort of. Maybe really sagging ones. But seriously, it's got the same derivation as mammalia and mammaries. And that's your fun fact for the day.
Posted by: Jacob at July 14, 2005 11:07 PM
Whose boobies have you seen that looked like those, Jacob?
Posted by: David Barzelay at July 15, 2005 3:28 AM
That's a personal question. But if you see me hanging out with a girl who has about two dozen sagging breasts, you can probably conclude it's her.
Posted by: Jacob at July 16, 2005 2:32 PM
