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Stormy Architecture

Photography Scenic posted on Sep 30, 2008
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This was a neat set of clouds in Butte, MT a month or so ago - I'm not sure what causes this type of cloud formation (any takers??), but it was too unique to pass up!

Comments (9)


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ralph49

11:53PM | Tue, 30 September 2008

Brilliant capture...glad you had your camera

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lyron

1:29AM | Wed, 01 October 2008

Great shot!

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ThetaGraphics

1:51AM | Wed, 01 October 2008

Nice shot! ;)

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GBCalls

4:16AM | Wed, 01 October 2008

Glad you stopped to capture it, very cool.

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Alz2008

6:20AM | Wed, 01 October 2008

Wonderful capture and sky, Excellent well done..

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DAVER2112

6:36AM | Wed, 01 October 2008

Wow! Great sky!!

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TwoPynts

8:23AM | Wed, 01 October 2008

"Sometimes very ominous in appearance, mammatus clouds are harmless and do not mean that a tornado is about to form; a commonly held misconception. In fact, mammatus are usually seen after the worst of a thunderstorm has passed. As updrafts carry precipitation enriched air to the cloud top, upward momentum is lost and the air begins to spread out horizontally, becoming a part of the anvil cloud. Because of its high concentration of precipitation particles (ice crystals and water droplets), the saturated air is heavier than the surrounding air and sinks back towards the earth. The temperature of the subsiding air increases as it descends. However, since heat energy is required to melt and evaporate the precipitation particles contained within the sinking air, the warming produced by the sinking motion is quickly used up in the evaporation of precipitation particles. If more energy is required for evaporation than is generated by the subsidence, the sinking air will be cooler than its surroundings and will continue to sink downward. The subsiding air eventually appears below the cloud base as rounded pouch-like structures called mammatus clouds. Mammatus are long lived if the sinking air contains large drops and snow crystals since larger particles require greater amounts of energy for evaporation to occur. Over time, the cloud droplets do eventually evaporate and the mammatus dissolve."

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MrsRatbag

9:16AM | Wed, 01 October 2008

A sense of impending something....great capture of these!

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MirageBay

10:14PM | Wed, 01 October 2008

Wow! It's rather scary and beautiful at the same time! Great capture!


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Photograph Details
F Numberf/7.1
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Shutter Speed1/125
ISO Speed400
Focal Length35

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