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Hello Steven, it is just a bit different than you think. The clouds don’t travel, the waves travel. This way a lenticularis cloud can hover above the same place, being the place where the air is forced to rise by the wave in order to condense and form a lenticularis cloud. Here is a nice timelapse that shows lenticularis clouds at the tops of waves seemingly staying in one place.
Here is a link with a scheme of what happens: Lenticularis explained
I hope you like the info. With best wishes, Hans
I like the theme of veils, whether tattered or not, you both posted three great variations on the theme.
Another Veil Variation
Nice lenticular formation Gregory. In my opinion they don’t care at all whether they hover above a town or not. Nevertheless a mountain or hill must be involved somewhere. The waves that can develop in the lee of a moutain can travel very far in the right conditions. That is to say that the air must be stable enough to prevent the wave-like layers of air to get disturbed. And then they pop up where the cooling of the air by rising of a layer with enough moist to cold enough heights betrays the position of the wave in the form of a lenticular cloud.
Any other opinions?
Great spotting Ari. The cropped picture shows indeed the stripes very well. Nothing is what it seems in my opinion. I think you spotted altocumulus and the stripes you see are undulatus. In fact the stripes betray the fact that we see here altocumulus at two different levels, so in the variety duplicatus. The stripes themselves are caused by shearing winds at that specific level. The winds cause the pattern of undulatus, just in the same way the wind does with the water: always with the pattern perpendicular to the wind. The undulatus seems to me at a lower level than the larger altocumulus clouds.
I hope this helps. Please react when there are other opinions.
Not A Cloud In The Sky is very creative and enchanting as well Keelin. A wonderful picture with a magical text. It gives a tingling experience. Love it.
Yes, endless possibilities Ruth. Very nice cloudscape with all kind of details in a mixed sky above the misty land.
May the force be with you all :)
Winged Horizon
Don you found a noce moment to capture this Cb at sunset coloring the anvil in reds.
And you captured a great shadow Ruth. Sorry to be a bit nerdy about it but that’s different from – and even the opposite of – a ray. But very nice anyway.
Blues At SunsetYes on my side of the pond we have tropical temperatures for more than a week already, so I long for some rain too. Light As A Feather looks very refreshing indeed, Ruth.
Castles In The Sky
Keelin, I am an admirer of the Admirer. He seems to have some alien features but he looks very friendly.
Great bird spotting Ruth with the bird of prey mirrored in the clouds. Unfortunately I have no Fellow Flyer like Keelin.
A Lizard In The Rain
