Monday, August 1, 2011

Cool Clouds!

Of course all the rain missed my house (and not by much looking at the radar).

Let Oscar out about 7pm and saw these cool "cotton balls" poking down:



Asked on the 'net and found out they're called "Mammatus, also known as mammatocumulus"

Real interesting storm in that it just sat over the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts and Connecticut, plus parts of Western Connecticut and the lower Housatonic Valley...area of Deerfield got smacked by 6" of rain in a few hours; I've seen that before and it's just not pretty:

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