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Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type

Cumulus, nimbus, stratus, cirrus…asperatus? First “discovered” in 2009, scientists have finally named this dramatic and rare cloud occurence as Undulatus Asperatus. posted

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Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type
Donna D.

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  • aaronb13   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 4 months ago
  • erino6 thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is OMG  about 5 months ago
  • michaels51   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 5 months ago
  • sarahw34 thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is Win  about 6 months ago
  • Nalani Rachel   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 6 months ago
  • JohnBrown   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 7 months ago
  • natalieanitalawyerm   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s LOL, OMG & Win  about 8 months ago
  • Heynewgirl thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is Win & OMG  about 8 months ago
  • maryamyumig   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
  • jamienicolel   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s Win & OMG  about 9 months ago
  • kaylac2   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
  • jasminehks   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s OMG  about 9 months ago
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  • BenjaminHeels   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
  • huntersampler   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s Win & OMG  about 9 months ago
  • #5 is not the new cloud type. Those are mammatus clouds and have been recognized for decades as being related to tornadic supercell thunderstorms. They're called mammatus because they tend to resemble…well…you can probably guess…

    prrriiide
    9 months ago
  • basmahbintf thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is OMG & Win  about 9 months ago
  • paola0ify thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is OMG  about 9 months ago
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  • spaceface   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s OMG  about 9 months ago
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  • eirene thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is Win  about 9 months ago
  • Daniel Stan thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is OMG  about 9 months ago
  • natashao   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
  • Pretty sure these were what Van Gogh was painting back in the late 1800s

    Scott J.
    9 months ago
  • majorsavagec thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is WTF  about 9 months ago
  • Gabriel G.   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s Win, OMG & Geeky  about 9 months ago
  • eugeniygorlov   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s Win  about 9 months ago
  • Torkil D.   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
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  • bacon.dc   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s Geeky & Win  about 9 months ago
  • Joanna Ferris   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
  • brendonl thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is Win  about 9 months ago
  • Molly J. thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is OMG  about 9 months ago
  • rainbowcrab   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s Geeky, Win & OMG  about 9 months ago
  • goergiea   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s Win  about 9 months ago
  • I saw these in 2004 and they were orange because it was at sunset. Pretty cool. But new? Clouds have been around since forever. I don't think they are new. Rare but not new.

    migooksaram
    9 months ago
  • It's the Nothing!

    IvantheTerriblyPolite
    9 months ago
  • Kimberly B. thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is Win  about 9 months ago
  • tesa   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s OMG  about 9 months ago
  • Drwholvr thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is OMG  about 9 months ago
  • lued thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is WTF  about 9 months ago
  • melanies4 thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is Win  about 9 months ago
  • dustinlm   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
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  • pablojp thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is OMG  about 9 months ago
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  • kbounce   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s OMG  about 9 months ago
  • ashley :)   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s OMG & Win  about 9 months ago
  • Aaron Appler   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
  • haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarp

    saroo
    9 months ago
  • the last one is an upside down snow field photographed from inside a camouflaged lookout.

    tommos
    9 months ago
  • Hot Sandwich thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is Win & OMG  about 9 months ago
  • I find a more appropriate title for these formations to be “HDR clouds.”

    Erin Standley
    9 months ago
  • brendan2 thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is OMG  about 9 months ago
  • LV   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
  • Esther S. thinks Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type is OMG & Win  about 9 months ago
  • Just don't say them all in the wrong order or you'll bring Voldemort back to life.

    Ethan
    9 months ago
  • hannahvlc   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s Win  about 9 months ago
  • more like pollution clouds

    Susan O.
    9 months ago
  • I find it beautiful, it looks like wads of cotton or milk foam

    Lillithdv8
    9 months ago
  • Lillithdv8   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type and thinks it’s OMG  about 9 months ago
  • I saw these the other day…end of the world clouds…

    LYLAS
    9 months ago
  • 1.21 jiggawhats   Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type  about 9 months ago
  • I believe this is also called a Ghostbusters/Zuul formation

    ed
    9 months ago
  • This is the scariest looking sky I have ever seen.

    Aaron C.
    9 months ago
  • definitely saw a few of these before a storm in NH the other day. Was wondering about them

    imward
    9 months ago
  • All this time, I've been calling it sky cellulite.

    Diana
    9 months ago

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