The winds must have been blowing at cross purposes the day Lucinda deLorimier (Member 48,861) caught sight of these Cirrus above New Mexico, US.

Cirrus are named from the Latin for a ‘lock’ or ‘curl’ of hair, and these ones are of the variety duplicatus, meaning ‘doubled’. That’s because their ice crystals can be seen to be falling through different levels of the sky at the same time. The variety is most apparent when winds at each level are blowing in different directions like this. Think of Cirrus duplicatus as a sky with a messy parting.