STRANGE CLOUDS

[TC]

Photo taken over South Shields thismorning at around 11:00am

NEVER seen cloud formations like these before:-

Any meteorologists out there ??????

 

[Mike.Haley]

The only time I ever seen clouds like that are in one of those disaster movies like \" The day after tomorrow \"

 

[TC]

Very eerie, Mike......never seen owt like them before.

I can honestly say (hand on wallet) that the picture shown is as it was when it was downloaded....no Photoshop work done on it at all (other than re-sizing the image to upload it.)



[Edited on 21/1/2006 by TC]

 

[TC]

Here\'s another photo........

The clouds seemed to be being pushed downwards.


[Edited on 19/1/2006 by TC]

 

[willywetegg]

Cracking pic Tony, very strange though.

I think you should send that one in to Bob Jonson mate lol.

Jim.

 

[TC]

Actually, Jim......

When I FINALLY (lol) arrived at work, me boss e-mailed them off to Look North.



[Edited on 21/1/2006 by TC]

 

[willywetegg]

Pleased you got away eventually mate. Hope it wasn\'t something daft like the wrong key lol.

Jim.

 

[TC]

No m8.....RIGHT key......knackered lock.

Nothing that a 3ft crowbar couldn\'t handle, though......lol

Just glad it happened at home at not 3:00am down at one of the seafront car parks after a fishing session :exclam:

 

[alan]

Excellent photo Tony

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Yep great pic TC ,has anyone seen the new War of the worlds movie !!!

 

[Chris_Hughes]

Those clouds are from Sweden, but I forget their name.

War of The Worlds film -- C R A P.... there is only so much you can do with a very basic story ... Martians land on Earth, Martians have war with Earthlings, Martians die because they are not immune to Earth diseases. No improvement on the 50s version which was also weak.

 

[Charlton]

I can verify the photos for TC, i was on Tynemouth beach this morning with the grandson, we where carrying on when he said gramps look at the clouds he described them as being like cotton bolls, it was incredible. Thing is never had my camera.

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[Tadpoleman]

WHAT ???? Mr C ....without his camera
never been known
bert

 

[Stores]

Geography hat on.... these are testicular clouds, in particular erect testicular clouds due to the lack of, considerable, downspiralling. They occur mostly towards the weekend but not excusively, depending on the festive season or birth sign. What you see here is a morass of them, hinting a weekend of stormy trouble.






















Sorry I\'ve had a long day.

 

[Les]

Here\'s another photo........

The clouds seemed to be being pushed downwards.


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looks to me like 1.000.000 scottish fag smokers getting rid of the last of the duty frees before the scottish executive makes them give up

it has been a northwesterly hasn\'t it??

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Hmmmm I was hinting toward the cloud formation in the movie Chris not the movie itself.

 

[TC]

Ah-Ha......could they be \"Mammatus Clouds\" ?????

Take a look here........

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

This gives a description of the clouds and their significance, as well as some more photos:-

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/oth/mm.rxml

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[willywetegg]

Those first one\'s are incredible Tony.

Jim.

 

[TC]

They certainly are, Jim.......look very apocolyptic

The end of the world is nigh !............lol



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[willywetegg]

\"The end of the world is nigh !................lol\"

Not sure about that but maybe the fish know something that we don\'t. Could explain why no one is catching lol.

Jim.