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Biblical Sky

Photography Atmosphere/Mood posted on Mar 27, 2012
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A mammatus formation. This is a slight reworking of a photo I posted a few years ago in my other (eyeland) gallery. I took this from my deck & though it looked really ominous, the storm I expected to follow never materialized. From Wikipedia: "Mammatus, also known as mammatocumulus (meaning "mammary cloud" or "breast cloud"),[1][2] is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. The name mammatus, derived from the Latin mamma (meaning "udder" or "breast"), refers to a resemblance between the characteristic shape of these clouds and the breast of a woman. Mammatus are most often associated with the anvil cloud and also severe thunderstorms. They often extend from the base of a cumulonimbus, but may also be found under altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds, as well as volcanic ash clouds.[citation needed] In the United States, sky gazers may be most familiar with the very distinct and more common cumulonimbus mammatus. When occurring in cumulonimbus, mammatus are often indicative of a particularly strong storm or maybe even a tornadic storm. Due to the intensely sheared environment in which mammatus form, aviators are strongly cautioned to avoid cumulonimbus with mammatus. Mammatus may appear as smooth, ragged or lumpy lobes and may be opaque or translucent. Because mammatus occur as a grouping of lobes, the way they clump together can vary from an isolated cluster to a field of mamma that spread over hundreds of kilometers to being organized along a line, and may be composed of unequal or similarly-sized lobes. The individual mammatus lobe average diameters of 1–3 km and lengths on average of 0.5 km. A lobe can last an average of 10 minutes, but a whole cluster of mamma can range from 15 minutes to a few hours. They usually are composed of ice, but also can be a mixture of ice and liquid water or be composed of almost entirely liquid water."

Comments (17)


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DAVER2112

10:47AM | Tue, 27 March 2012

Wow! That looks awesome. Great sky. Very nice capture. :)

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Sea_Dog

10:52AM | Tue, 27 March 2012

Stunning! Great work.

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Meisiekind

11:09AM | Tue, 27 March 2012

Biblical indeed - breathtaking!

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Feliciti

11:49AM | Tue, 27 March 2012

looks fantastic and dramatic too !!

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jayfar

1:57PM | Tue, 27 March 2012

This is what I would call a really threatening sky and wonderfully captured.

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Hendesse

4:13PM | Tue, 27 March 2012

Fantastic sky and light. Excellent shot!

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cfulton

4:14PM | Tue, 27 March 2012

It is super when one gets to see these formations. I love clouds! Clive

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JuliSonne

4:17PM | Tue, 27 March 2012

Grandios....and monolithic!!!

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sandra46

5:16PM | Tue, 27 March 2012

SUPERB SKY

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jeroni

5:30PM | Tue, 27 March 2012

Beautiful composition. excellent work

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Richardphotos

9:47PM | Tue, 27 March 2012

we have had many clouds looking like this and I have posted several.very ominous and superb capture

angora

3:02AM | Wed, 28 March 2012

awesome capture!!! last time I saw these the world almost came to an end ;-) what happened?

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rainbows

3:30AM | Wed, 28 March 2012

Incredible sky, you choose the correct title for it too. Diane.

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thecytron

9:33AM | Wed, 28 March 2012

AmaZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzing cloud formation! Looks like something is going down!

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ia-du-lin

3:24PM | Wed, 28 March 2012

wonderful clouds formation, beautiful shot

alanwilliams

3:49PM | Thu, 29 March 2012

very old testament

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dakotabluemoon

6:40AM | Fri, 30 March 2012

Excellent shot here hon awesome sky.


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