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Mrs Sweetie
22-Dec-10, 16:28
Fogive me if this is a) in the wrong place or b) already been posted but I thought this cloud formation a little strange. Taken from Wick looking over towards Milton. Picture not brilliant as it's just a snap. Anyone seen something like this before?
cherokee
22-Dec-10, 16:35
Thats really unusual Mrs Sweetie !!

Good photo as well for just being a "snap" ! :D
Sage
22-Dec-10, 16:35
hello Sweetie :D

It's a good old fashioned Cumulonimbus cloud with an anvil top called an Incus

The anvil is made up of ice crystals and they can be truly massive. It's that shape because the crystals are being moved by air currents high up.

Underneath you'll likely get hail and perhaps a bit of lightning :eek:

yeah...btw it is a LOVELY pic!
Kodiak
22-Dec-10, 16:38
This is Cumulonimbus incus with little precipitation or Cumulonimbus with anvil. The anvil is the flat top.
DeHaviLand
22-Dec-10, 16:42
very spectacular, and well done on capturing it on camera.
Dadie
22-Dec-10, 16:44
I thought it looked like the enterprise on startreck:lol:
Mrs Sweetie
22-Dec-10, 16:47
Wow, Sage and Kodiak, thank you for that information! Good to know it's only likely to be hail or lightning coming from it and not little green men. :lol:

Thank you for your comments on the photo, folk. :)
bekisman
22-Dec-10, 16:52
Haven't heard the explosion yet..
Sage
22-Dec-10, 17:23
there's nothing to say that there arent little green men hiding in it though! :lol::eek:
brandy
22-Dec-10, 17:35
i was thinking that looked just a little scary with a nuclear plant not too far away! *giggles* but great pic!
Dog-eared
22-Dec-10, 17:44
Nice photo !

Theyr'e quite common, but because there's no wind just now, the cloud holds it's shape better.

More clouds here - http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/ :)
annemarie482
22-Dec-10, 18:33
I thought it looked like the enterprise on startreck:lol:



i was just going to type that! lol

great minds eh......:lol:
stekar
22-Dec-10, 20:01
Similiar picture shown on STV weather tonight, taken by someone in Keiss.

Both brilliant pictures!
upolian
22-Dec-10, 20:05
Check out the bird posing on the fence post......saaaaaaay 'weird cloud'[lol]
Stargazer
22-Dec-10, 20:37
I think your cloud may be "as seen on TV". Sean Batty had a picture of this one taken from the west? on the 18:30 weather forecast on STV. Unfortunately his picture galery is a month out of date.
Mrs Sweetie
22-Dec-10, 22:43
My husband said he'd seen it on TV tonight too but I missed it. :( Maybe it will turn up online in a while.

Thanks for the link, Dog-eared, I shall have a look round there later. :)