Ever see anything like this?
Jorn Olsen works for the Dutton-Lainson Co. In Hastings , Nebraska , and lives by Heartwell Park next to Hastings College. The other night he took these photos. The stadium lights are at the Hastings College stadium just east of his home.The clouds are called Mammatus clouds.
They do not precede a tornado, or foretell a storm, but are formed when the air is already saturated with rain droplets and/or ice crystals and begins to sink. The worst of the storm is usually over when these kinds of clouds are seen. They are quite rare, but really beautiful.
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great pictures tho…lucky ive never been in tornado country
Those look really cool. I wish they were a bit bigger – I’d have a new background!
WOW – they are amazing !
Like nothing I’ve ever seen before. They make you want to reach up and grab a piece of heaven.
They don’t even look real!! :-O
Yes, I’ve seen them before, but not quite so pronounced. Very nice pictures! Mammatus I think is for mammary – they look kind of like… boobs.
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Those are just awsome pictures. many thanks for sharing them
Beautiful picture, interesting blog…
Wow, those are beautiful! Kinda amazing what beauty can come from a storm.
hard to believe these are real if they are WOW!!!!
Branden
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Just Search for mammatus at flickr.com. There you’ll find a lot of them, even one from me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/95213101@N00/126413991/
Wow… amazing!
found you thourgh 25 peeps. those clouds are very cool indeed!
Those clouds are just… breathtaking. I’ve never seen such unique looking clouds. I thought I’ve seen some different kinds, but wow. That’s amazing.
Amazing photos. I have seen some similar clouds myself, before a storm last summer. You can check the photo out if you’re interested.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyssajbrown/55508674/in/set-1164740/
Anyway, those are breathtaking images. It’s amazing the art the nature can give us.
Wow, I’ve never seen these type of clouds. Thanks for sharing, they’re stunning.
i’m sure that, this pictures are made in photoshop…
I also thought they were edited, but this is what I found when I searched flickr for ‘mammatus’ http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mammatus&w=all
And also I googled for it, and found quite a collection of images.
Lastly I found the same pictures on this website of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html
This has kind of proven to me that they are not edited. He must’ve used a real good camera though
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