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Can you identify these clouds please?!

  • 06-07-2010 4:56pm
    #1
    sineadgalway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭


    Hey guys,

    Saw these clouds over Cahir, Co. Tipperary and am not sure what they are....your cloud identifying genius needed please!!

    Taken April 24th at 8:30am


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  • #2
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,451 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    A form of lenticular cloud I'd suggest?


  • #3
    patneve2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭patneve2


    Yep, lenticular. When they form completely they often resemble UFOs. They tend to form at very high altitudes (much higher than that of rain clouds).


  • #4
    bazza1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭bazza1


    The one bottom left is Frank!


    Lenticular looks good.


  • #5
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    Nice shot. They look very much like the classic Altocumulus Lenticularis.


  • #6
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Or a mongerel cloud made up of Ac Lenticularis and Undulatus. There seems to be too much wavelike regularity for pure lenticularis, yet not quite enough for undulatus! Maybe we could call it "Ac Undulicularis" (a memory aid would be "under-lick-your-arses!") :lol:


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  • #7
    sineadgalway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭sineadgalway


    thanks guys, i thought lenticular all right but didn't seem like the classic shape you see in other pictures....your genius is much appreciated ;)


  • #8
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    Su Campu wrote: »
    a memory aid would be "under-lick-your-arses" :lol:

    Mnemonic most noisome :eek:

    Yep, you're right, defo some cross-breeding goiing on there.


  • #9
    Joe Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Joe Public


    I don't know about the clouds but the building is at a funny angle compared to its base, has this distortion of the image affected how the clouds have turned out in the photo?


  • #10
    sineadgalway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭sineadgalway


    well i probably took it at a funny angle but here is a better resolution....


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