I got these pics from an e-mail......
These photos were taken by Joran Olsen of Hastings, Nebraska.
After checking wikipedia......
These clouds are known as Mammatus Clouds, or mammatocumulus. The name 'Mammatus' is derived from Latin, mamma (meaning human breast, lol), due to their resemblance to female breast (a bit la)
Explanation from visualfunhouse.com
Mammatus Clouds are formed when air is over saturated with water droplets that begin to freeze or cool then sink. Around the clouds lies sharp gradients in temperature, moisture and wind momentum, that combined to strongly influence the clouds formations. They are very rare to see but defiantly a beautiful site.
According to wikipedia, the formation of Mammatus Clouds is still a mystery......There are many hypothesized formation mechanism for Mammatus Cloud, where it involved freezing, sublimation, evaporation, latent heat............(form 4 physics chapter 4, thats why no one is interested in how it forms....physics is boring....)
But who cares about how it formed, just say thank you to mother nature because she created such a magnificient masterpiece for us......(but why the clouds is named like that? maybe because mother nature is also ahem....ahem....or is the scientist who named it is ahem...ahem...?)
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