Strange Cloud Formation (Sacramento CA)

61 posted on 12/01/2010 9:42:21 PM PST by 50mm (I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)

62 posted on 12/01/2010 9:50:12 PM PST by shibumi (Wily Pablo lives in someone's head - rent free!)

These events are sometimes witnessed.

63 posted on 12/01/2010 10:08:49 PM PST by 50mm (I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)

To: 50mm; shibumi

Heh.

They’re watching the wrong channel, then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQVzkGpPVzc

64 posted on 12/01/2010 11:40:01 PM PST by Salamander (Hold on to all your fears 'cuz when I get outta here, vengeance is mine.....)

Looks like Northern Lights, cannot spell Aurora borelias...I have seen red Aurora borelias when I was on the farm...beautiful. Son came in from a date and said mom you just have to see this....never saw that color before..It would fade in and out and move in the sky. Not stationary..like a living thing...

65 posted on 12/02/2010 2:35:36 AM PST by goat granny

To: NonValueAdded

Thats a new one to me, could you try to describe it...sounds interesting...

66 posted on 12/02/2010 2:39:26 AM PST by goat granny

Was working at Pontiac General Hospital when we went on red alert for a tornado touchdown the sky was all green, its the only time I've seen a green sky. That's when the hospital went on red alert. It was a dark and ominous green color...

67 posted on 12/02/2010 3:06:39 AM PST by goat granny

You saw a hole cloud or a parhelion?

Parhelia (commonly called "sun dogs") come in pairs (usually to the left and right of the sun at a distance of 22 degrees) and form in high, thin clouds that are composed of tiny ice crystals.

That "standalone" storm you saw is also the most dangerous kind. Unlike T'storms in a front line, they can draw energy from all the surrounding air -- instead of having to "share" it with adjacent storms. Tornado factories!

Saw one of those "supercells" from the parking lot of Carlsbad Caverns, NM -- which is high up on a one-time seashore. The storm moved across the flat former seabed (now desert) below and to the south, and the falling rain and hail shafts were clearly visible. As it moved on, it left a dark, wet "footprint" behind it across the desert. The top must have been near 35,000 feet. Lots of lightning and noise -- quite a spectacle (when watched from a safe distance...)!!

As a "Skywarn"-trained Ham, I wanted to stay and see if it "dropped" a tornado -- but the rest of the family wanted to tour the caverns in time to be back on top for the evening bat flight. The kids won. ;-)

68 posted on 12/02/2010 6:59:17 AM PST by TXnMA (You don't have to be a California Condor expert to recognize a mockingbird when it sings...)

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69 posted on 12/02/2010 12:30:17 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)

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