Interesting clouds

slysi · Postby **slysi** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:19 am

I was really bored in the traffic this morning but saw some interesting looking clouds over the West Rand...cell phone pictures not great though.

Postby **Morph** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:40 am

looks like Mammatus clouds. It is rare and you get this underneath a big Cumulus Nimbus, i.e. thundercloud, Cb

Sox · Postby **Sox** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:48 am

Plonker the Great Photographer!
Those are some of the best photos I've seen from you!

slysi · Postby **slysi** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:18 pm

Sox wrote:Plonker the Great Photographer!
Those are some of the best photos I've seen from you!

AndyG · Postby **AndyG** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:18 pm

Think you are right Morph

Thatchman · Postby **Thatchman** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:40 pm

Ja I was also looking at that lot.

So can some of the clever people tell the rest of us what it is in simple terms

It looked like waves under the clouds.

Postby **Morph** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:45 pm

Apparently the wavy, sometimes udder-like (hence the name, mammatus - mammory) appearance is as a result of down draughts within the cloud. Usually seen just after a thunderstorm has passed. Definately not flying weather

John Young · Postby **John Young** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:00 am

Morph wrote:looks like Mammatus clouds.

Yip - mammatosies ... even bus drivers divert around them.

Regards

Hot Stuff · Postby **Hot Stuff** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:52 am

Morph, where the hell do you store all this knowledge. Almost every time someone seeks help on this forum you are one of the first to assist. I truly take my hat off to you. Well Done.

Postby **Nkwazi** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:44 am

This has happened a lot this rainy season - never seen it before. Whats the story

Choppie · Postby **Choppie** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 2:04 pm

Hot Stuff wrote:Morph, where the hell do you store all this knowledge. Almost every time someone seeks help on this forum you are one of the first to assist. I truly take my hat off to you. Well Done.

You know, some people (like me) appears to be overweight, baring a sparewheel/crash helmet/ love wart - or whatever name the uninformed would subscribe to it.

Truth is that some of us are very clever - thus requiring more strorage space for the knowledge - hence the additional bulk around the waste - easier to carry and not too far away from the control centre...

Postby **Morph** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 2:07 pm

I knew there was a reason for my beer barrel

Postby **John Boucher** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:09 pm

Hi guys...

Taken over Kimberley 30 minutes ago!

Awesome looking at them mushrooms in the sky!

AndyG · Postby **AndyG** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:13 am

Do you get clouds in Kimberley John????

kloot piloot · Postby **kloot piloot** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:46 am

Of course they have clouds ..., it is satelites which they haven't got yet !