
Mind-Blowing Cloud Formations You Probably Haven’t Seen Before

BoredPanda staff
Various cloud formations might be one of the most beautiful and romantic sights in nature, but these masses of liquid droplets is also a complex and scientifically interesting phenomena. Regardless of the shape and the looks of the cloud, they’re all made of the same thing – condensed water or ice. When the sun heats the ground, warm air starts to evaporate and rise towards the sky. Once these water vapor particles cluster together, a cloud is formed. If it is being joined by more water crystals and keeps growing, it will eventually reach us on the ground as rain or snow. Otherwise the cloud simply evaporates into the thin air.
Even though different cloud formations might seem random and indescribable to you, there’s a whole cloud classification system that’s uniform worldwide. Luke Howard, British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist, was the first to introduce a nomenclature system for clouds back 1802. Today clouds are categorized based on their shape, altitude, process of formation and other features.
Luckily you don’t need to be a meteorologist or a science fan to appreciate the beauty of differently shaped and colored clouds. Here’s a selection of some stunning cloud pictures – we bet that among them you’ll find some cloud formations that you’ve never actually seen before!
Inspired by: twistedsifter.com
Mammatus Clouds
Image credits: HeavyLight.ca
Image credits: Ken Lewis –
Image credits: Vincent Fryhover
Lenticular Clouds
Image credits: Brian Middleton
Image credits: Jean-Michel Priaux
Image credits: Dementievskiy Ivan
Undulatus Asperatus
Image credits: JΩSH
Image credits: wittap
Image credits: JΩSH
Fallstreak Hole
Image credits: ladigue_99
Image credits: mtnrockdhh
Image credits: lookseenseen
Polar Stratospheric Cloud
Image credits: Alan R. Light
Image credits: FotoLind
Image credits: FotoLind
Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz
Image credits: drdouglascordeiro.blogspot.com
Image credits: drdouglascordeiro.blogspot.com
Image credits: pfjc&pfjc2
Roll Clouds
Image credits: Kick Petroff
Image credits: apod.nasa.gov
Anvil Clouds
Image credits: Nicholas_T
Image credits: hide
Image credits: *Lampy*
What do you think ?
Definitely, something --a phenomenon? -- is going on.
Chemtrails
sorry for being all rude and CAPS but i just have seen them all!
Definitely, something --a phenomenon? -- is going on.
Chemtrails
sorry for being all rude and CAPS but i just have seen them all!