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Winds coming eastward off of the Cascade mountains create a shearing effect that contributes to the variety of high level cirrus clouds over Cle Elum, Washington, US

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Cirrus vertebratus homogenitus forms as a result of an aircraft condensation trail (contrail). The spine of the cloud begins as a contrail and is aligned to the flow of the high winds, whose water droplets freeze into ice crystals that fall below into slower, moister airflows. This variation was spotted over Kenilworth Gardens, Melksham, England.

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