New type of cloud found!

Teki187 · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:31

Meteorologists believe they have discovered a new classification of cloud after the unique formation has been spotted in skies around the world.

Experts at the Royal Meteorological Society are now attempting to have the new cloud type, which has been named "Asperatus" after the Latin word for rough, officially added to the international nomenclature scheme used by forecasters to identify clouds.

If successful, it will be the first variety of cloud to be classified since 1953.
The new type of cloud forms a dark, lumpy blanket across the sky and has been sighted in locations all over the world, including above the hills of the Scottish Highlands and above Snowdonia, Wales.

"It is a bit like looking at the surface of a choppy sea from below," said Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, who first identified the asperatus cloud from photographs that were being sent in by members of the society.

"We try to identify and classify all of the images of clouds we get in, but there were some that just didn't seem to fit in any of the other categories, so I began to think it might be a unique type of cloud.

Source - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencea...encenews/5411412/New-type-of-cloud-found.html

Pictures from : http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8076000/8076805.stm

mrk · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:32

Hmm my judgement is somewhat clouded now!

Ricochet J · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:38

The scientists seemed overjoyed on cloud nine upon this amazing discovery.

LukeTW · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:40

Wow a cloud

DoubleCheese · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:40

doesn't look real. Very bizzare.

8balled · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:41

Does anyone have anything useful to say or are we all gonna take the **** out of teki?

just wondering where to take my rhetoric...

Ross1234 · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:43

Is it just me or is that fake?

8balled · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:43

Ross1234 said:
Is it just me or is that fake?

I can tell by the pixels. whoo i'm trolling.

ins0mn1ac · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:45

Teki's threads are so exciting

Teki187 · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:45

8balled said:
take the **** out of teki?

There isn't any need to break the status quo, keep taking the ****. Thread will no doubt get locked anyway.

Admins seem to like throwing there weight around.

LoadsaMoney · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:46

New type of cloud my ass, i bet it floats just like all the rest em.

GeForce · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:47

My first thought on that first picture was "Why is that city underwater?".

Nice pictures

Eye seven · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:49

Some cool pictures, faked or not.

Ucof · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:50

My favourite is the 3rd picture

8balled · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:51

Teki187 said:
There isn't any need to break the status quo, keep taking the ****. Thread will no doubt get locked anyway.

Admins seem to like throwing there weight around.

Chill out dude, i'm all for breaking status quo. nothing worse than people blinded by their own ignorance, myself included.

gillywibble · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:52

Interesting stuff.

Marky · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:53

gillywibble said:
Interesting stuff.

Really?

moremoney · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:54

Please, name the game when posting screenshots.

Greenlizard0 · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:55

It looks like something created by cgi; almost science fiction like. Fluidy..

GhostlyPea · 1 Jun 2009 at 22:55

Marky said:
Really?

He must mean it, there is a full stop at the end, thus sarcasm is an impossibility!

- Pea0n