Wednesday 2 January 2019

More stormy weather stop press: mammatus!


This afternoon Sydney experienced a rare and dramatic phenomenon: mammatus clouds. Also known as mammary clouds, because of their shape.

I'm in the habit of looking up, being a bit of an astronomer, plane spotter, and ornithologist! So I wasn't going to miss this.

There were fierce storms going on in the Blue Mountains and elsewhere, and mammatus clouds are apparently associated with stormy weather, though they don't necessarily mean it's about to come to your particular location.




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