The clouds over Rainier today.

[icarus]

Cool or what?









Plugging away at another chapter of Out Of Bounds.


ETA: Awk! Needed cut-tag. Bad.

Comments

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

eek. Could you put in a smaller version and/or cut this? It breaks my layout and everything.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I can back to check it after I emailed the photo to dad. and went "Awk! Cuttagcuttagcuttag."

Done. Sorry about that.

[archae-ology.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that's just beautiful.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I have a smaller version now. The other was too big for my screen.

Amazing. Mountains are amazing.

[archae-ology.livejournal.com]

They really are, and they always seem to provide such amazing photographic opportunities. I wish there were mountains up here, but I think the closest mountain chain would probably be the Laurentians, but the range starts in Quebec.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Wow. Is there a name for that kind of cloud? Midcenturymodernnimbus?

[lebannen.livejournal.com]

I think they're lenticular clouds. They form over some mountains in particular weather conditions, probably involving an onshore wind although I don't know about that bit.

(and before posting, reading down other comments says that yes, lenticular clouds, and the conditions involve major turbulence).

[meesto.livejournal.com]

I am saving those in my cloud photos collection. Nice! Thank you.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Those are amazing. Outside my office in New York today it looked like a snowglobe.

[ponyboy63.livejournal.com]

awesome pics! thanks!

[darklock.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous view! And, those clouds look awesome. I love that you can see the different levels/layers of pressure.

[crownglass39.livejournal.com]

That is way cool!

[lherelenfeline.livejournal.com]

wow!

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you for sharing. Those are some gorgeous pictures!

[threnodyjones.livejournal.com]

Awesome pictures!

[abigail89.livejournal.com]

HeadBoy says these are lenticular clouds. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_cloud)

Extremely cool. (He's impressed he could recall the name since he's not an earth scientist.)

[omglawdork.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. Those are amazing. I had to get past my initial OH GOD TORNADO GET IN THE CLOSET, and then they were really, really beautiful. (I'm from Texas, I can't help it. ;-))

Really, really neat - never seen anything like that before. Thanks for posting!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm from Michigan, so yeah, I understand that reaction. Did I tell you the story of how my stepdad got chased by a tornado once? He said it sounded like a train accompanied by a giant, crunching alongside it. Later he discovered that was loud crunching sound was entire trees being ripped out of the ground. All along the route where he'd run.

[rabidfan.livejournal.com]

So, so beautiful. Thank you.

[franticsga.livejournal.com]

Very, very sweet altocumulus standing lenticular clouds. I've only ever seen baby versions of these, which are a sign of SUPER SUPER bad turbulence. They're usually shaped like almonds or UFOs. I've never seen any this defined or vertically extended before- they're awesome!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

That's Mt. Rainier, and we have blizzard conditions (complete with 50 mph winds) incoming tomorrow. Amazing, huh?

[franticsga.livejournal.com]

Oh, meteorology. The most beautiful things always mean that something terrifyingly awful is about to happen.

[whatifisaidno.livejournal.com]

Wow!

[geek-tastic.livejournal.com]

that is really amazing! I really miss living in Seattle...

[mad_maudlin]

O.o

I have never seen clouds do that before.

(watch out for incoming Asgard)

[pkoceres.livejournal.com]

That is SO COOL. :O

[lomedet.livejournal.com]

WOW. That's absolutely amazing.

[miso-no-tsuki.livejournal.com]

Truly amazing.I've never seen anything like that in RL, but then Hampshire *is* one of the flattest counties in England. We have small little hill-lets! The first shot is incredible, they're all lined up like a fleet of UFO's. O_o

[lexstar29.livejournal.com]

That's an absolutely beautiful photo. Really stunning, thanks for posting it.

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

It's like... [squint] like a huge, benevolent tornado, too fat and fluffy to do any real damage and too lazy to want to, just sort of hanging out.

Angie

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

best description evah!

[sarcastic-irony.livejournal.com]

NO FUCKIN' WAY!

[birggitt.livejournal.com]

Amazing! And really beautiful... Those mountains...

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

Great pix!! meteorology is one of my (uneducated) serious interests.

[tintinnabular.livejournal.com]

I only just realised that you added me as a friend so I thought I should say hi. :)

Those clouds are really cool but I'm more impressed by that stunning mountain.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, found you in the Merlin fandom.

And that is Mt. Rainier, an active volcano outside Seattle, WA. It's also the largest mountain in the lower 48 in the U.S. If you ever hear of Rainier going off, you will know that I am done for. *g*

It's also beautiful, appearing and disappearing like magic.