Last night I posted a blog entry about the storms I was worried about for today. They appeared right on time! They were doozies. We had reports of hail and substantial downpours that flooded some low lying areas. Cloud-to-ground lightning set off house fires!
Interesting weather pictures were common tonight. This might be the most interesting! It comes from Jess and Mike in Lisbon, CT (where there were no severe storms).
You’re looking at a mammatus cloud.
Mammatus, also known as mammatocumulus (meaning “mammary cloud” or “breast cloud”), 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.
More unusual than rare they are often associated with severe weather. A common emotion when seeing mammatus clouds for the first time is fear. Actually that fear might not leave even after a first sighting!
I saw those kinds of clouds once and they were moving as if they were boiling towards me. It was so cool.
What an AMAZING photo!
This photo should be added to the gallery on the Wikipedia page. It’s better than any picture there.
Wow! I thought I had some NICE PICS! (I do, but this is AMAZING!)
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Look at it carefully, and you can see how one of the “nodules” casts a shadow across the whole formation! 🙂
Weather porn! 🙂
We had mammatus clouds here in Danbury at around 6:30 this evening. As the storm rolled southesast and the setting sun hit it, the mammatus looked really pretty!
When the storms rolled in, I was actually thinking Geoff was right on the money! It sure was a doozy!
I was in Cromwell today and I saw them… I was so proud that I knew they were Mammatus… lol! Saw a BRILLIANT partial rainbow a while later!
Come on Jeff that is photo shopped
I got some good photos too. (Middlefield). Same type of clouds but the setting sun/after the storm lit them up with a peach color…
all of you in the northern part of the state had all the fun- we had nothing but a few very brief showers and a rumble of thunder in Stratford