Mammatus cloud

Posted 6 August 2012 by

Mammatus cloud, Goose Creek Path, Boulder, Colorado, August, 2012.

2 Comments

Sinjari · 7 August 2012

An excellent example of naturally occurring complexity. By the way, has anyone come up with a definitive mechanism explaining the formation of mamma? I know that hydrometeor cooling had been proposed, however hydrometeors don't always generate mammatus lobes.

Henry J · 8 August 2012

Is that Mamma from heaven? :p