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Mammatus clouds: dark grey, pouch-like bulges hanging from the underside of a storm cloud, beside a strip of blue sky and white cloud, with a utility pole and wires at right.

Mammatus Clouds

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Pablo Saavedra Garfias

University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Mammatus Clouds showing off as the storm passes by over the region between Cologne and Bonn, Germany.
The picture was taken from the Meteorological Institute at the University of Bonn, Germany.

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Atmospheric Sciences Earth and Space Science Informatics Field Natural Hazards

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Europe Western Europe Germany Show on map

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clouds storm precipitation

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Credit: Pablo Saavedra Garfias (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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Type Image Format JPG Size 3.8 MB Aspect 4:3 Width 2592 px Height 1944 px Brand Sony Ericsson Model SK17i Exposure 4 mm f/2.6 1/1600 s ISO 64 Coordinates 50.7312, 7.0707 Tint Dark grayish blue Published 23 July 2014 Taken 23 July 2014

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Pablo Saavedra Garfias 12 years, 2 months ago

you don't see very often these stuffs here!

Konstantinos Kourtidis 12 years, 2 months ago

They are called mammatus clouds, not mammantus. Very nice photo, these clouds are quite rare and usually indicative of extreme weather and atmospheric shear.

Pablo Saavedra Garfias 11 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for your comment Konstantinos Kourtidis, I fixed it already ;)