Some weirdly beautiful clouds appeared in the sky on May 9. I took lots of photos and later learned they were called Jellyfish Clouds. They are really a type of altocumulus clouds, but they look like jellyfish with their tentacles dangling downward. The tentacles are really virga, precipitation in drier area that evaporates before hitting the ground. This creates the wispy cloud trail that extends from the main cloud before ceasing at the level in the atmosphere where the evaporation is complete.
I couldn't decide which photos to keep so I kept them all...
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment