tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post6276020791164350760..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: Mushroom Shaped Cloud Over OregonStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-29494850997373222732014-05-29T16:22:53.700-08:002014-05-29T16:22:53.700-08:00Graduation Clouds! A whole new class of clouds, An...Graduation Clouds! A whole new class of clouds, Anon.<br /><br />KaJo, I see what you're saying (seeing?)- but the pictures of the lenticular clouds look like the pancake, like top of the cloud formations above, but without the bottom. But the cumulunimbus have both the top and the stem. But I'm just going by what I can find online.<br />Bill Butler - what do you have to say about this? Atmospheric phenomena are your area, and Oregon is your state?Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-47410153836388145762014-05-29T15:00:38.535-08:002014-05-29T15:00:38.535-08:00They look like lenticular (lens) clouds to me, whi...They look like lenticular (lens) clouds to me, which I've seen frequently capping Mt. Rainier, but apparently they can form over even low hills. <br /><br />http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Cloud_Images_Lenticular_01.html<br /><br />I wonder if the misty clouds under the lens clouds are being pulled up from the cumulus cloud layer underneath, in some sort of vortex air movement?KaJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11043005602676549904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-14530504714788746972014-05-29T07:36:48.396-08:002014-05-29T07:36:48.396-08:00Look like graduation mortarboards to me . . . . Mu...Look like graduation mortarboards to me . . . . Must have been honoring some special folks. Thanks for the picture of Crater Lake! Grew up in the area and it's always a treat to see a photo of that very special place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-27056316154740557332014-05-29T01:07:15.107-08:002014-05-29T01:07:15.107-08:00Thanks, Anon, for the confirmation. We don't ...Thanks, Anon, for the confirmation. We don't have clouds like that often in Anchorage and when we do, there tend to be lots of clouds all around - like in this case - so you wouldn't see it so clearly from the ground. Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-63310013788130019582014-05-28T20:50:58.917-08:002014-05-28T20:50:58.917-08:00Looks like a perfectly normal cumulonimbus to me. ...Looks like a perfectly normal cumulonimbus to me. I'll see if I can find a live observation somewhere near there, but the automated weather stations don't provide the detail we live observers used to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com