The Doomsday cloud, Undulatus Asperatus.
As I’ve mentioned before, twelve new cloud types were announced this past year. Some of the most interesting are what we call the “special” and accessory clouds …
(The photo above shows the “Doomsday” cloud, Undulatus Asperatus, which I shared in my last post on new cloud discoveries.)
What’s an accessory cloud? This is a cloud that accompanies another. Believe me, you would rather see the picture than have one coming at you.
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The new accessory cloud is called a “flumen” and is a low cloud associated with severe supercell storms. They move towards but are not attached to thunderstorm clouds, (cumulonimbus), carrying warm wet air. They feed the storm, sometimes supplying enough moisture and energy for tornado development.
Feeding the storm: A Flumen cloud Source: WMO, International Cloud Atlas
Five other new clouds are “special” clouds, which are weirdly-created Frankenstein clouds that are unusually made. Instead of forming due to the humidity and temperature variations in the upper atmosphere, these clouds are created by conditions on the Earth’s surface or conditions created by living organisms. Their Latin names are truly intimidating mouthfuls. Two are:
- Cataractogenous, describing clouds that develop from the spray of large waterfalls, and
- Flammagenitus, describing clouds formed by wildfires.
Water and fire clouds: Cataractogenous and Flammagenitus clouds are created by surface conditions. Source: Wikipedia
Living things can create clouds as well. One, newly recognized, is Silvagenitus, clouds formed under the influence of moisture from respiring trees. The woodlands carry moisture from their roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere. You can see it rising like steam and forming clouds.
Silvagenitus, the forest clouds Source: WMO, International Cloud Atlas
Two types of special clouds are made by man:
- homogenitus, describing clouds formed by human activities, such as airplane contrails and power plant steam, and
- homomutatus, describing clouds originally made by humans that gradually transform into more natural-looking forms, like a contrail that eventually spreads in the wind.
The clouds we make: Homogenitus (Source: Wikipedia) and Homomutatus (Source: WMO, International Cloud Atlas)
Those are all for now. Keep your cell phones out. You could discover the next new clouds!
James J. Garriss
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Contrails disappear quite rapidly. Geoengineering spreads across the sky. It is a chemical cloud not jet fuel condensation. Don't believe me? Anyone over 50 knows the sky never looked like this growing up even living in a high air traffic area. Any old Farmer can tell you the same thing. Geoengineering's patent is online for you to research. It exists. New clouds? A result of Geoengineering. Don't refute it before you research it.
I am 100% with you on this. They spray my skies everyday here in MD. We’ve got different planes using different spraying devices making all kinds of shapes. First it will be a clear blue sky and then suddenly the next day the whole sky is covered in a thick smoggy blanket. Then it rains and then it gets unnaturally warm. Happens every time they spray. Give it up to science to make up some more facts to cover up what they do.
Mary Martha, you are ABSOLUTELY correct! I am 51 and I don’t recall EVER seeing the ‘clouds’ back growing up as I see ALL THE TIME today.
You are right. Thanks for educating people.
Thank you for posting about geoengineering. I wish they would tell the truth.
