December 2, 2013
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Cloud of the Month
December 2013
The Aspiring Asperatus
The cloud of the month for December is the Altocumulus asperatus undulatus. It is the cloud that aspires to be recognised, as it is a formation that is yet to be recognised by the World Meteorological Organisation. This dramatic example over Newtonia, Missouri, US, was one of a sequence of images sent in by Elaine Patrick.
Photograph © Elaine Patrick.
Kathryn
December 3, 2013at8:42 ameither stand on your hands or turn the photo upside down and these clouds could easily be a rough icing on a cake, very rough like I’ve don in a hurry now and then….
Kathryn
December 3, 2013at8:44 amall that being said, I do like very much the variation on the surfaces of the different areas.