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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Mammatus clouds
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:13:52 -0500
Have you seen twisters materialize from mammatus clouds yourself?  The 
University of Illinois link about mammatus clouds on the page Moose 
posted says:

"Sometimes very ominous in appearance, mammatus clouds are harmless and 
do not mean that a tornado  is about to form; a commonly held 
misconception. In fact, mammatus are usually seen after the worst of a 
thunderstorm has passed."

See: <http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/oth/mm.rxml>

ps:  I never thought I'd see mammary shapes that looked threatening.

Chuck Norcutt

Chris Barker wrote:
> Fantastic Moose!  I learned about various cloud formations during my  
> flying training (met being of particular interest to sensible  
> pilots ;-)), but I had never seen mammatus until I got to Florida.   
> Then, they seemed often to precede twisters, where a "nipple" formed  
> and touched the land or sea (Tampa Bay).
> 
> But I have seen them in the UK occasionally over the last 2 years;  
> that might be climate change for us ...
> 
> Chris
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
> +44 (0)7092 251126
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> 
> 
> On 17 Nov 2005, at 05:51, Moose wrote:
> 
> 
>>Many of us have posted various cloud photos. There have been  
>>postings of
>>links to other interesting and/or terrifying cloud photos.
>>
>>I've never seen anything like these
>><http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html>.
>>
>>Moose
> 
> 
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