Mammatus clouds

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Mammatus clouds over central Texas

Mammatus clouds don’t keep extending downward to form tornadoes, as some believe. But they do come before, during or after severe weather.

Captured on Memorial Day weekend 2015 Anne-Marie in Georgetown, Texas. Visit her Facebook page: Trees

In and around EarthSky’s hometown of Austin, Texas – and, in fact, up into Oklahoma and other parts of the central U.S. – there was some catastrophically bad weather over the Memorial Day weekend. Those who look skyward also noticed lots of mammatus clouds over a period of several days, like these clouds captured by Anne Marie in Georgetown, Texas. These ominous but beautiful clouds can appear around, before or after storms. Anne Marie appears to have caught them as the clouds were breaking up, just as the sun was going down. She wrote:

Mammatus clouds over Georgetown, Texas.

May 25, 2015.

These beautiful pearls formed at the end of a gritty day of weather across Central Texas.

Source…..www.earthsky.org

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Mammatus clouds at sunset, over Idaho

Mammatus clouds can appear ominous. But, in a way that’s so common in nature, their dangerous aspect goes hand in hand with a magnificent beauty.

View larger. | Mammatus clouds at sunset submitted by Andrew Ashton in Nampa, Idaho. Thanks, Andrew!

Andrew Ashton in Nampa, Idaho submitted this beautiful shot, which I believe he captured earlier this week. The pouch-like protrusions hanging from the undersides of these clouds are called mammatus clouds.

One interesting aspect of mammatus clouds is that they’re formed by sinking air. Most clouds are formed by rising air. They typically indicate stormy weather, but, contrary to myth, they don’t continue extending downward to form tornados.

Source…….www.earthsky.org

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