http://www.just-a-webpage.com/rantings/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/fuji-cloud.jpg

^Lenticular clouds, technically known as altocumulus standing lenticularis, are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally aligned at right-angles to the wind direction.

Where stable moist air flows over a mountain or a range of mountains, a series of large-scale standing waves may form on the downwind side.

Here is some amazing pictures of them:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Maui_lenticular.jpg


http://www.weatherwise.org/pgallery04/2004a.jpg



http://www.takeourword.com/images/lenticularcloud.jpg

http://adventx.typepad.com/./photos/uncategorized/rainier_lenticular_clouds_1.jpg

http://www.southernskyphoto.com/planet_earth/images/lenticular.jpg

woooow that looks amaazing !!!
thanks for sharing

you are welcome Deathy :D

Simply extraordinary

Sub7an allah, that's so freakin' amazing. I never knew there was clouds like that. I always thought the best clouds, were the fluffy kind. Wow, amazing!

thanx charm..

first time to know them....

Very nice... thanks for sharing.

Pretty cool! Never seen anything like it my entire life!!! :omg:

^lol

Glad you guys liked them :flower:

Wow! Those pics are breath-taking!

I want one, over my house! :shy:

So beautiful! Even more beautiful than the tomato-potato plant.

I've never heard of them before and there aren't many things I run into that I've never heard of before.

You never know what you're going to run into up there in the sky.

I wonder if some of the things people thought were flying saucer alien spaceships were lenticular clouds?

^ :omg: my mom was telling me the exact same thing when I showed her the pictures!!! It's so amazing!!

I wonder if some of the things people thought were flying saucer alien spaceships were lenticular clouds?

Was wondering about the same thing too! They look a lot like UFO's!

^ I showed the pictures to a friend of mine he is a plane pilot he started telling us funny stories of people thinking the same thing of these clouds :hyper: Mountainers get some kind of phobia after being in a mountain for a long time it's a cloud phobia:os I hear..

that looks so amazing! :love: sub7an allah..never heard of them

breath taking pictures sweetie
thanx a lot for sharing :cute:

you are welcome :flower: