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Atlas Recognizes 11 New Kinds Of Clouds
« on: March 24, 2017, 06:36:35 am »

well this is kinda 'space' news.. with the new forum ?  i don't know if we'll see this later..lol
i have a lot of cloud pics..just can't stop watching the sky

also here's the link to the cloud atlas
http://wmo-cloudatlas.org/index.php/en/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/international-atlas-new-clouds_us_58d48f21e4b02a2eaab23a14?

SCIENCE 03/24/2017 04:35 am ET
International Cloud Atlas Recognizes 11 New Kinds Of Clouds
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a volutus giant sky roll!
By Mary Papenfuss



there is a vid here i can't move..sorry

The International Cloud Atlas has officially recognized 11 new kinds of clouds.

The updated list in the atlas that names the types of clouds in the world includes five special ones that are created in very specific circumstances, such as flammagenitus clouds (triggered by wildfires) and cataractagenitus clouds (developed from the spray of waterfalls).

Newly recognized volutus clouds resemble a giant roll, and are actually considered a new “species” of cloud. Asperitas clouds look like a rough, rolling sea.

Official recognition of the asperitas cloud only occurred after a determined citizen-scientist campaign through the Cloud Appreciation Society. A proposal for the new classification, backed by member photos from around the world, was submitted to the atlas in 2008.

The society’s success was a “classic example of citizen science, in which observations by the general public, enabled by the technology of smartphones and the internet, have influenced the development of this most official of classification systems,” the society noted on its website.

Society president Gavin Pretor-Pinney told the BBC he was surprised when the campaign was successful, but believes the atlas creators came to realize the level of interest in clouds was high, and that it was important to present the public with a more authoritative text.

People don’t have to be experts to say “‘That’s amazing!’ and take a picture, and send it to us, and being in the center of that network we can spot a pattern,” Pretor-Pinney said.



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Another newly recognized cloud formation: cavum, which looks like a hole punched into the sky.
Other intriguing clouds that have made the atlas include cavum (clouds that look like giant holes have been punched into them), wall-like murus clouds, tail-like cauda clouds and surfing-wave fluctus clouds.

The atlas, which the World Meteorological Organization produced, hasn’t been updated since 1987. It is now accessible for the first time to the public via the internet. There’s also a photo submission section on the site for cloud hunters to share their discoveries.

Related Coverage
UFOs In The Clouds — Lenticular Clouds, That Is — Fire Our Imaginations Of Alien Visitors

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ufo-lenticular-clouds_us_58c2cf44e4b054a0ea6a433f

WEIRD NEWS 03/11/2017 11:09 am ET | Updated Mar 12, 2017
UFOs In The Clouds — Lenticular Clouds, That Is — Fire Our Imaginations Of Alien Visitors
Some cloud formations actually look like alleged alien motherships.
By Lee Speigel



COOLBIERE PHOTOGRAPH VIA GETTY IMAGES
A multi-tiered, brilliant UFO-shaped lenticular cloud over Mt. Tasman, New Zealand.
Have you ever spent a lazy day on a blanket in the middle of a summer meadow, staring up at the sky, watching the clouds drift by, and imagining them take the shapes of familiar things?

There’s even an organization, The Cloud Appreciation Society,
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/
devoted to the activity of cloud gazing. When their February 2017 cloud of the month turned out to be a flying saucer-shaped lenticular cloud, it absolutely inspired us to seek out more of these breathtaking images of clouds from around the world that have caused people to report seeing alien visitors.

The Weather Channel has referred to lenticular clouds as “Mother Nature’s UFOs.” These altocumulus lenticularis clouds ? appearing to our senses as disc-shaped objects ? often form in mountainous regions where stable moist air flows upward and then, when it becomes colder, it descends, forming a disc-like cloud that can appear to hover in the air.

They’re also seen in non-mountain areas, formed by the strong winds resulting from a storm front.
We’ve gathered some remarkable images here that might make you think twice about whether people have been lucky enough to capture amazing UFO pictures, or the more credible explanation of lenticular clouds.


28 slides here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ufo-lenticular-clouds_us_58c2cf44e4b054a0ea6a433f?slideshow=true#gallery/58c38883e4b054a0ea6ae8aa/0

i like these\



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