Mitch Cronin Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Somewhere around North Bay at around noonish today, at whatever altitude we were at (for a test flight), we saw some very strange looking cloud formations... they looked like inverted cones sitting on top of a stratus layer of cloud! Honest to goodness! ...like upside-down funnels. The skipper said they were "very rare", but didn't know what to call them, and didn't really explain (we were busy "testing" after all) what caused them.... Does anyone here know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDR Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 The forecast for my closet is 20 degrees and dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Mtch: Did they look anything like you can find on this page?http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Cloud_Images_Lenticular_01.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Cronin Posted December 1, 2010 Author Share Posted December 1, 2010 Mtch: Did they look anything like you can find on this page?http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Cloud_Images_Lenticular_01.htmlNosir, not a one. ....smooth, round, inverted cones, but with a curved up-slope... with their bases embedded in a lumpy layer of cloud below... there were at least three of them nearby... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Interesting.And please, in deference to Peppermint Patty, don't call me sir...I'm stumped.There's another thread here today about "super-cells".I've never seen one. My first reaction was the pix were a fraud.But your story is first-hand. In the words of my favourite group, "I Can't Explain". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inchman Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 I came back from Europe yesterday and saw two instances of what appeared to be jetstream-induced wavelike formations. In once case, we requested an "immediate" climb as soon as we got in range of Gander Center to get above one set of them. They looked very rough. The first set was at about 55 west at SCROD and the second set was near Charlevoix (ML). I caught the second set (much less rough looking) on camera. I was too preoccupied in getting hold of Gander for the climb to think to take a picture of the first set. Once on top of the first set it was smooth but a mountain-wave-like ride.... plus/minus 300 ft/min on the VSI but no real altitude change. Depending on the angle at which you observed them, it's possible that they appeared to be cone-like. I don't recall ever seeing anything quite so wavelike and certainly not two in a day.The atmosphere over Quebec and Ontario was mean all day yesterday. Moderate chop/turbulence almost all the way in from the coast. Gonna be a nasty winter, methinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaydee Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Somewhere around North Bay at around noonish today, at whatever altitude we were at (for a test flight), we saw some very strange looking cloud formations... they looked like inverted cones sitting on top of a stratus layer of cloud! Honest to goodness! ...like upside-down funnels. The skipper said they were "very rare", but didn't know what to call them, and didn't really explain (we were busy "testing" after all) what caused them.... Does anyone here know?How about these ?http://www.collthings.co.uk/2008/02/eery-mammatus-clouds.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Say Again, Over! Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 How'bout them?http://www.flickr.com/photos/68834561@N00/255154791 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Cronin Posted December 4, 2010 Author Share Posted December 4, 2010 ....nope, and nope.... sigh.... I'll post a picture if I ever see one... I normally would have had my camera with me, but one of my dogs had decided it was a toy, and it didn't survive the "play". These ... whatever they were... were very smooth, very round, sort of bell-shaped things... (that probably describes them better than "upside-down cones") ...except their tops were quite narrow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AME Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2009/03/05/137871460cf87cbb89_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://themoreiknowthemoreidontknow.blogspot.com/2009/03/10-awesome-cloud-formations.html&usg=__xAv1SYMWzlE0C9vHapsVQBflBYM=&h=375&w=500&sz=9&hl=en&start=30&zoom=1&tbnid=q9JrrRnKKizymM:&tbnh=153&tbnw=207&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dunusual%2Bcone%2Bcloud%2Bformations%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26biw%3D1259%26bih%3D656%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C1279&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=351&vpy=85&dur=131&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=161&ty=120&ei=hvn7TNLiK8a-nAeO6JTHCg&oei=fvn7TOayDIaTnQezhMGpCQ&esq=3&page=3&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:30&biw=1259&bih=656 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Cronin Posted December 5, 2010 Author Share Posted December 5, 2010 You know, I'll betcha thats what we saw... from above... three of em... Thanks Brett ...I wonder what makes them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Cronin Posted December 6, 2010 Author Share Posted December 6, 2010 ...Ok, never mind... I guess that wasn't it.... but maybe it was the result of some man made vertical currents somehow... guess I'll never know... NEXT... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W5 Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 http://mmem.spschools.org/grade5science/weather/altocumulusII.htmlI must say that I have seen lenticular clouds much farther downrange from the mountains; usually associated with a frontal wave.Definitely used to love them as a glider pilot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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