For the DU cloudwatchers: awesome mammatus cloud photos

[Heidi]

The following cloud photos were sent to me by a friend in Nebraska. They apparently were taken in June 2004 near Hastings, but any DUers from Nebraska will know better than I do.



Here's the link to a website with more of these photos: http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. wow

i am not much of a cloud watcher, but wow, that is awesome, i have never seen clouds like that.

[Heidi]

2. I love watching storms.

Having grown up in "tornado alley," I try to avoid the really bad storms, but I love to watch the clouds roll in. :hi:

[sam sarrha]

3. better call Buffy, the demons are spawning again.....!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. They almost look photoshopped. All I know is, I am running for

the root cellar! :P

[Heidi]

6. I suspected at first that they were Photoshopped, but

then I noticed that they're posted on the website owned by the High Plains Regional Climate Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and then I was even more impressed that they're _real_.

[Radio_Lady]

31. Look at these entries at photoshopped.com to see what can be done...

with these striking images. What imaginative work!

http://photoshopcontest.com/photoshop-contest/1283/mammatus-clouds.html?l=all&o=

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. I saw clouds like this about 8 years ago.

They are harmless, but they do look quite eerie, don't they?

[Heidi]

20. Where did you see them?

I understand if you don't want to say, but I lived in Nebraska for a lot of years and never got to see any clouds like this. Bummer.

[Beware the Beast Man]

21. This was in Western PA.

The sky was a weird greenish-orange. The local news even broke in to assure people that there was no severe weather. It was strange, but beautiful.

[Heidi]

23. Thank you!

I have a close friend who's an editor for Rodale in PA, and so I have to get up there next time I'm in the states. I'll be on the lookout for funky clouds. :hi:

[Lex]

5. Beautiful!

Thanks for the link.

[DS1]

7. I want to swim through them

That's awesome.

[bridgit]

8. truly...

:hi:

[Heidi]

18. Hi, gf!

Those clouds just about make you wanna yodel, don't they? :rofl:

[bridgit]

24. bon jour, Heidi...

you bet'cha, what can you say about mother nature but that she is: Big Time On The Job!!
hope your day to be going well, we just got in a little late for this post from a little picnic on the delta = sw-eeet! :rofl:

[Jara sang]

10. It looks like the end of the world

That is incredible!

[sexybomber]

11. Holy shit!

That is some wild stuff. I've never seen mammatus like that!

[huskerlaw]

12. Yes, they're real

and the resulting storm dumped like 11 inches of rain in a few hours. I believe they're getting federal disaster relief.

It does look like something out of Exodus, doesn't it? Eeek.

[Heidi]

17. Thanks, Huskerlaw.

I lived in your fine state for 15 years and saw plenty of spectacular skies in that time, but I never saw anything as cool as what these photos show. Thanks for confirming! :hi:

[Hugin]

13. Magnificent!

Wow...

[halobeam]

14. Thanks so much for sharing this pic....

the site link is really awesome too. I am always looking to the skies. I live in NY and I NEVER see truly gorgeous skies like those in other parts. I'm always searching for sky pics from other places, so I thank you for a real special treat today.

:toast:

[Heidi]

16. Love your username, Halobeam!

And if you ever have the time to take a driving trip across the U.S. in summer, I'd recommend Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. There's some beautiful sky out there when you get off of the interstate and navigate by section lines. :hi:

[huskerlaw]

22. The one thing Nebraska has

is unobstructed views of the sky. :) And yes, sometimes the view is quite gorgeous. I also recommend Hawaiian sunsets:

[Schema Thing]

15. Damn!

just DAMN!

[NorthernSpy]

19. that one on the left looks like a bottom

Mooned by the sky.

[Radio_Lady]

26. Yeah, I'm seeing some "human parts" in those clouds --

Maybe that's why they're called "mamma-tus" clouds.

They're amazing. Thanks for the photos.

[Mutley]

25. Whoa!

Thats wacky! Wow! :wow:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. Some things are beautiful and scary as hell simultaneously

What an amazing photo! Thanks for posting!

[kanrok]

28. Hey! Nice Mammati!

Nice picture as well. Love storms.

[chickenscratching]

29. wow, just wow

those colors and shapes just don't seem real! Beautiful!!
thank you for sharing this!

:hi:

[entanglement]

30. Beautiful. n/t

[Maddy McCall]

32. Those aren't clouds. They're chem trails.

;-)

Just kidding. That is a beautiful photo...I could stare at if for hours. Almost hypnotic.

[Radio_Lady]

33. kick this for the nighttime mammalians....

[gardenista]

34. Wow...... I would love to see that in person someday...

those are amazing, like some sort of strange life form growing out of the cloud.

But also sort of like stubby pillsbury dough boy legs, all dangling down.

The way the light hits them is really wonderful.

So they're not related to tornados, eh? Boy, I'd run if I saw them and didn't know what they were!

[Radio_Lady]

35. Yeah, they have that "I'm comin' to getcha look," don't they???

[Heidi]

36. Kick for the night shift. (nt)