That was exactly my thought.
Officials will then apply to the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva to have the new cloud type considered for addition into the International Cloud Atlas, the system used by meteorologists across the globe.
Professor Paul Hardaker, Chief Executive of the RMS, said: ‘There would probably need to be quite a lot of heat around to produce the energy needed to generate such dramatic cloud formations.
‘They are quite dark structures so there must be a lot of water vapour condensing in the cloud.’
Asperatus clouds over Illinois, US. The Royal Meteorological Society would need more information about weather patterns that form so-called aspertus cloud to define it as distinct from undulatus clouds, which means wavelike in Latin THIS ONE LOKS LIKE AN EYE.. 