Fantastic Clouds!
24I’m so glad I scored my Irk finally because it allowed me to notice other things, like the incredible mammatus clouds that appeared over my house. They started out mostly yellowish, and then got more colorful as the sun sank down.
fiery:
And finally delicate:
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That sometimes means tornadoes soon!
@PooltoyWolf That’s what my neighbor said! I hope not …
@Kyeh If it hasn’t happened by now, you’re good LOL.
Awesome! You might want to join Cloud Appreciation Society. I get their occasional emails without having a paid membership.
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
@kdemo Oh, I think I will - thank you! I’ve heard them mentioned on The Weather Channel.
@Kyeh - Cloud appreciation:
@kdemo
I like it!
@kdemo
Great shots!
I’ve never seen those in person.
@blaineg Thanks! I felt pretty lucky to have them directly overhead, especially at sunset.
@blaineg I just heard you’ve got a wildfire burning in Utah right now. I hope you’re not in its path.
@Kyeh Thanks for your concern. We’re ok, the closest fire is about 60 miles away, on the other side of a mountain range.
But it’s been a bad fire season with the ongoing drought. There were 26 new fires this weekend, 23 human caused. So far there’s been no loss of life or homes.
@blaineg I hope you stay safe - it’s all too familiar to us Coloradans!
Who needs filters when you’ve got nature!
Living in the PNW, clouds are usually a daily feature. But some of them are more interesting than others…
@macromeh Wow! I love the shadow across the clouds in the second photo, streaking up from a mountain? Or a tall clump of clouds?
@Kyeh That’s the shadow of Mt. Hood projected on the clouds at sunrise. (You can just see the tip of the mountain peeking out of the lower-level clouds.)
@macromeh Oh, cool! I wondered if it was Mt. Hood. So you have a view of it from where you live?
@Kyeh Yep, plus a stretch of the Columbia river where we can see ships going up and down - the view was one of the major selling points when we bought the property.
@macromeh Wow!
@Kyeh Speaking of pretty views, my daughter took this photo this morning while hiking (somewhere outside the Denver area). Said she “started hiking by 4 am, hiked in the dark for about an hour with a headlamp and got to the top right as the sun was peeking through”. Not many clouds in this one, but nice none the less!
@macromeh Oh, that’s fabulous! Like a calendar picture. I would frame it and put it up if I were you.
Omg that so pretty. I can only imagine how vibrant the colors were in person. One of the best things about summer are the beautiful sunsets.
@Star2236 Thanks! I agree!
Little Fluffy Clouds.
I love mammatus clouds. The first time I experienced them I described it as like being inside a lava lamp.
@heartny Oh, perfect description!
Thanks for all the beautiful cloud pix. Locally, often out best sunsets happen v lard August - autumn.
Curiously, I had thought of adding both songs to this topic. But got busy … thx v much to all, topic has given me a bit a joy.
Here is a photo of the storm that heralded the arrival of my firstborn. Looking W/NW from Rosedale Mall, MN, 8:35 pm on May 10, 2011. Mammatus, cumulonimbus, cirrostratus, and virga all in one shot! The change in air pressure caused some changes in my wife, and the kid was born about 30 hours later.
@btwonder That’s amazing!
Was it a heavy storm?
@Kyeh it was one of those crazy midwest storms where the whole sky opens up and dumps its contents onto the earth for about 18 minutes. We had been inside walking around the mall to relieve my wife’s discomfort and get the process of labor going, and the rain was pounding the glass roof of the mall furiously. By the time we came outside the scene was as you see in the photo, with everything newly soaked and the storm moving off to the northeast. It was about 20 degrees cooler outside, too.
@btwonder Spectacular!
And of course - cloud pictures were posted in Nextdoor, and somebody put up a long rant about these being caused by cloud seeding and how that’s also “drying out all forests” and “weakening human immune systems” because this is the internet and everything has to have a sinister interpretation.
@Kyeh They forgot chemtrails.
@Kyeh what? People are crazy
@blaineg Oh, right. Maybe that will be next.
@tinamarie1974 Or stupid! Or both?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974
The Cats need to take the internet back from The Stupids.
/giphy cat vs stupid
@f00l @tinamarie1974
That would be great!