Help identifying this cloud?
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Hello!
This is my first post to the forum. (I’ve only been a member for a few months.) I saw this strange cloud a few days ago in Davis, California and can’t figure out what it is so I thought I would ask here. In the bottom right of this photo, there is a short, funnel-shaped part of the cloud. Any help identifying this is greatly appreciated! In case it helps, it was a very dramatic cloudspotting day with lots of cloud types present! More pictures from the surrounding sky below. Thanks in advance!
-Mischa
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I think I agree with Hygge and in support of this I will peddle my short time lapse video.
The cloud in my video was a Cb, I know because I saw it on the radar as well. It looks like some Cb’s are initially strong enough to reach an inversion (maybe the troposphere) and spread out in an anvil (“incus”). But the supply of moisture and energy dries up and they loose their base.
But not to come to a definitive conclusion, it may be a cloud producing precipitation that does not reach the ground, a thick virga, that is dragging down some of the cloud. I do see some precipitation in your second picture, so that’s not too far fetched.
I think one of the tricks is to continue your observation for some time and see how things evolve.
Anyway, nice to hear from you.
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