the cloud classification class

Along with tulips and lilacs and redbuds, spring in Kansas means storms.  Which means interesting cloud formations and this crazy light that makes all the greens look so vivid.

I saw what I think were stratocumulus, cumulonimbus, and nimbostratus formations.  But don't quote me on that.  I have not taken the cloud classification class for my amateur meteorology degree yet. 

Comments

[Joan]

Love clouds. I've taken pics of lenticular clouds that were featured on the news/weather channel here. Some of your pics look like super cell formations. Is Lawrence in Tornado Alley? I had my share of Tornado warnings when I lived in MI...no thanks, don't want that kind of weather or the kind that comes with a shovel.

I find weather fascinating. We get spectacular lightning storms here. I'd love to take a course in Meteorology. I'm a frequent watcher of Storm Chasers on the weather channel.

[Susan]

omg! I thought I was the only fanatic, frenetic cloud photographer. I have more photos of clouds than my family...Thanks for this one!

[Vicki in Michigan]

I feel like I pay a reasonable amount of attention to clouds, and yet I am always seeing something I've never seen before.

I'm coming to think that no matter how a person paints a cloud, they are making a true representation of some cloud that has truly existed, somewhere, at some time....

Nice shots! I think my fave is the one with all the blue sky at the top....

[Maureen]

My dh who used to work for NOOA, but not as a meteorologist, doesn't even know the names of all the clouds. I kinda think I did know as a Girl Scout but sadly that info has left my brain. Now I just enjoy them.

I do know that gray and yellow sky color may mean a tornado ahead. :(

[Leslie J. Moran]

The power and the magnificence and the possible fear factor! I love looking at clouds and finding faces or shapes. Used to do that a lot as a kid lying on our backs in the warm summer. Great photos.