Thursday, November 22, 2012

Mammatus Clouds Over Monument








I'm clearing out the camera and found these shots I took early in the summer.  It was an afternoon of thunderstorms -- hail, tornadoes, flash flooding, and all those other things.  Oddly enough, we got almost nothing.  It all went around us but not over us.

The clouds were amazing, though.  Big poofy lumpy blobs on the underside of the very dark clouds... It was very dramatic!

These kinds of clouds are called mammatus clouds.  They are indeed associated with severe thunderstorms, though that is not the only time they can be seen.  We have seen them before.  However, this time I had a camera handy!