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Some Mindblowing Clouds

July 31st, 2006 | Author: Dizzy Dee | Category: Cool, Dizzy Dee

Clouds #3Ever 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.Clouds #2

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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19 Comments so far

  1. Leon July 31st, 2006 10:39 pm

    thanks so much for visiting….plz do come again sooon

    great pictures tho…lucky ive never been in tornado country

  2. Jack August 1st, 2006 1:36 am

    Those look really cool. I wish they were a bit bigger - I’d have a new background!

  3. Nicola August 1st, 2006 9:05 pm

    WOW - they are amazing !

  4. Bill August 2nd, 2006 12:28 am

    Like nothing I’ve ever seen before. They make you want to reach up and grab a piece of heaven.

  5. Omni August 2nd, 2006 6:33 am

    They don’t even look real!! :-O

  6. Shelly August 3rd, 2006 3:50 am

    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.

  7. Leon August 3rd, 2006 11:23 am

    Ha ha,great comeback danette…Tat was good n thanks for comin back again

  8. Dave August 3rd, 2006 10:21 pm

    Those are just awsome pictures. many thanks for sharing them

  9. threecollie August 4th, 2006 4:57 pm

    Beautiful picture, interesting blog…

  10. suki August 4th, 2006 7:17 pm

    Wow, those are beautiful! Kinda amazing what beauty can come from a storm.

  11. Branden August 5th, 2006 10:28 am

    hard to believe these are real if they are WOW!!!!

    Branden
    nubbit.com

  12. Mario August 5th, 2006 11:50 am

    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/

  13. Veracity August 5th, 2006 2:25 pm

    Wow… amazing!

  14. FlatGreg August 5th, 2006 9:13 pm

    found you thourgh 25 peeps. those clouds are very cool indeed!

  15. psychodaisy August 5th, 2006 11:57 pm

    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.

  16. Nyssa August 6th, 2006 4:49 am

    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. ;)

  17. ~ Stacy ~ August 7th, 2006 12:14 am

    Wow, I’ve never seen these type of clouds. Thanks for sharing, they’re stunning.

  18. Marius Muscalu August 15th, 2006 1:20 pm

    i’m sure that, this pictures are made in photoshop…

  19. Dizzy Dee August 15th, 2006 2:22 pm

    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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