HI Artography - Something Wicked This Way Comes

[Mike Lamb]

The clouds got real strange on Sunday.

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[Rob Amaral]

Mamma Mia ! That's a bad sign.. those are usually associated with fronts that produce tornadoes, no? Mamma______Cumulus???

[kurt]

We had the tornado, up in Grays Lake. It didn't blow up any houses, but caused major damage to trees and power lines.

Nice pic.

[Les]

Mike is there a story with that photo?

[Mike Lamb]

No rain. The sun came out about 30 minutes later. We have had one day of rain in the last 2 weeks.

No story, either. The house was next door to the building I was inspecting.

[Rob Amaral]

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/oth/mm.rxml

[Mike Lamb]

I was told they are mammatus clouds: Mammatus are pouch-like cloud structures and a rare example of clouds in sinking air.

[Jerry Simon]

I was told they are mammatus clouds: Mammatus are pouch-like cloud structures and a rare example of clouds in sinking air.

The Stay-Puff Man clouds, no?

[Jim Baird]

...mammatus as in mammary like features, as in udders. Very apt Latinized nomenclature IMHO.

[kurt]

Yes, interesting bit of information.

[Erby]

I will sleep better tonight knowing this information. Perhaps I'll dream of mammary features!