If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

UFO Shaped Cloud over Portlaoise - October 28th 2011

Danno · 2011-10-28 15:54:00

Just snapped this "Spaceship" shaped cloud over Portlaoise! Unusual that it formed under high cloud.

Options

28-10-2011 4:54pm

#1

Danno

Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2004

Posts: 8622

Just snapped this "Spaceship" shaped cloud over Portlaoise!
Unusual that it formed under high cloud.

1

Comments

Options
#2 28-10-2011 9:10pm
redsteveireland

Registered Users Posts: 3,033 ✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2009

Posts: 2936

Spotted similar shaped clouds around Galway today, very slow moving too.

0
Options
#3 28-10-2011 9:23pm
Su Campu

Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2009

Posts: 4126

They're altostratus lenticularis and generally remain in the same spot as they're formed by the rising of a stable airflow over high terrain. There just happened to be a layer of cirrus above but that has no effect on the formation of these clouds.

0
Options
#4 28-10-2011 9:25pm
markfla

Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭

Join Date: January 2009

Posts: 326

knew this was gonna be lenticular before I clicked the link...air rising up from the Slieve Blooms

0
Options
#5 29-10-2011 10:23pm
Mr Benevolent

Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2008

Posts: 11372

It's a Chinese lantern.

0