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I was sent the following and I thought it interesting

Jorn Olsen works for the Dutton-Lainson Co. in Hastings, Nebraska, and lives by Heartwell Park next to Hastings College. The other night, probably just after the big storm hit, he took these photos and sent them to UNL (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) which, then, posted them to the following URL. The stadium lights are at the Hastings College stadium just east of his home.



The clouds are called Mammatus clouds and there's a link on this URL that tells about them. They do not precede a tornado, or foretell a storm, but are formed when the air is already saturated with rain droplets and/or ice crystals and begins to sink. The worst of the storm is usually over when these kind of clouds are seen. They are quite rare, but really beautiful.

http//www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

Truely amazing. They look like giant snowballs.

They look like 'Monty Python' clouds!

Why was I expecting clouds that looked like a huge pair of knockers?

A large pair versus a large number of pairs shock

Well I have to admit the do look more like that today now the rest of the pictures are loading -last night I could only see the first which imo does not live up to the expectation implied by the name, hence the (TIC) comment. :roll:

Great!

They remind me of giant marshmallows. The first picture makes me think of Close Encounters of The Third Kind ???

We've got a few pics of clouds like that from last year & they appeared after storms too. We only lived about 16 miles from Hastings, & Dutton Lainson was one of our vendors.