Mountain waves

[Morph]

I found these on AVCOM (thanks) They actually show mountain waves

[Biggles]

here are some pics i took in Worester in december 2006.

Show the cloud formed by the crest of the wave as it goes through the condensation level.

[Morph]

Yip

Lenticular clouds formed at the peak of each standing wave. Not good flying weather

[John Boucher]

Lenticular clouds are serious stuff.... High Speed Winds!!!!!!

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html/lenticular3.html


Who has ever seen Mammatus type clouds in real life?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud

Looks like mushrooms you can off the sky!!!

[Biggles]

Saw these clouds quite often in Ghana. They were bad news and usually meant i would be standing in freezing cold rain and high winds for the rest of the day:(

Hunting for pics but cannot find them, I had some beautiful ones...

[John Young]

Who has ever seen Mammatus type clouds in real life?

Looks like mushrooms you can off the sky!!!

Hi BAD NAV,

These Mammatus "Mamatosies" are quite common in KZN.

Regards
John ZU-CIB

[John Boucher]

John

Awesome clouds.... seen in a few times in Postmasburg as well. Really looks great after a storm and the setting sun causing the amazing lighting effect. Looks like "doomsday" .....

I hope to take a photo of these clouds when it occurs again. As for Lenticular clouds, one can often see the extreme examples over Table Mountain and I am sure Morph can vouch for this!

Have a look at a series currently running on SABC2 on Friday nights called SuperStorm. Some of the footage comes from real Typhoon / Hurricane disasters.

When you play with the weather - speel jy met die Groot Leeu se BAL!