Undulatus Asperatus

[Andrew49]

This cloud, the Undulatus Asperatus, could be the first new cloud to be officially recognised for 61 years..

Sky watcher Gavin Pretor-Pinney founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and is leading the campaign to officially document a new type of cloud, the Undulatus Asperatus. The clouds appear in heavy skies with a rolling pattern that inspired his chose of name for them - it translates loosely as "roughened waves". In 2006, Jane Wiggins of Cedar Rapids, Iowa saw the striking cloud formation and took a photograph. Her photo went viral and since then, people around the world have been snapping pictures of the clouds whenever they saw it. But Gavin is quick to point out this is not a new type of cloud, far from it. "They're not new clouds, the clouds could well have been around for a long time in ways that are not related to with climate change."

What has changed is that today more people are carrying cameras and are able to share them with each other on the internet.

Source

REDDIT

[Baron von Biffo]

Gets my vote for thread title of the year.

[C. Flower]

Saw an amazing phenomenon very early the morning after the meteor shower. Bright strawberry sky, with a tall gold column of light dividing it directly above a mountain top. Something to do with heat rising from the hill ?

Sadly, no camera with me at the time.

[Andrew49]

The above photo was taken one December morning a number of years ago.

[Andrew49]

NIWA/Alan Blacklock: AAP

A cloud formation in the shape of a flying reindeer sits high the sky above Wellington, New Zealand, on December 2, 2007. New Zealand photographer Alan Blacklock, who took the ephoto, is calling the cloud formation Rudolph. Source

[homer]

Great thread title.

[Count Bobulescu]

This may be old hat to some, but was recently posted on the Atlantic, a time lapse of Ireland’s cloudy skies by Peter Cox.

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/arc...reland/262631/

[eamo]

Jasus!!
Andrew, when I read the thread title I thought you had uncovered some really obscure and perverted abuse by the RC clergy. Thanks be to God I was wrong

[Andrew49]

Jasus!!
Andrew, when I read the thread title I thought you had uncovered some really obscure and perverted abuse by the RC clergy. Thanks be to God I was wrong

That would be: Abusum per pervertit in Catholico Romanum clero !!