I posted about Mammatus Clouds back in April and you know what? I had managed to photograph “mammatus clouds” here in Kuching on Gawai Day! Although not as dramatic as the ones in the April posting but they do look like miniature ones don’t they? And even if they are not mammatus clouds, they are still abundantly beautiful clouds!
Did anyone else in Kuching saw them?
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wow… that’s a whole lot of cotton balls!!!
Lucky you! (Nowadays I keep checking the sky…)
Hmm… nice nice pictures!
Feel so at peace with Mother Nature…
Have a nice weekend ahead!
What a spectacular sky! I’d call that a big change from the gentle one in your last post! Dramatic with a capital D!
More like strato cumulus I think.
Very beautiful sky.
Glad u folks like it irregardless of what’s called.
Yeah; I seemed to have pretty good luck with clouds,skies n rainbows! Now if only it were the case with …..
so far, I haven’t have the opportunity to view the mammatus cloud in real life yet..
Hope I can have the chance one of these days…
Must look up to the sky more frequently
Seem like no one else in Kuching has watch it except u..
or they just dun want to comment on your cloud?
robin - some people (unlike u) are quite contented just to view and enjoy the pics.
commenting is not mandatory lah!
i frequently visit other sites but leave no footprints …
I wished I had my cloud chart with me from the stormspotter training class. You got a very good picture of what I believe is called alto cumulus. They are definetly not mammatus clouds. I’m a storm chaser and I have seen and photoed mammatus clouds. Don’t feel bad, you’re not the only who has taken these clouds to be mammatus. If I remember right, they should be alto cumulus, although alto cumulus can take on different forms. Those clouds that look like a lense are also alto cumulus. But your picture might be strato cumulus also. It’s got to be one of the two. Who knows, it might be cirro cumulus.
I just went to another site, they are cirro cumulus clouds. Alto cumulus looks exactly the same, except they’re mid-level clouds and appear a little bit larger when they’re in the type of pattern your photo has. It is easy to mess up on some of these cloud formations because of similarities.
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