Amazing cloud

[Rich]

A friend took this photo last month in Illinois. I don't think we'd ever see a cloud like this in England.

[Wild-Woman]

Looks like the sort of cloud that precedes a tornado. I suppose a lot has to do with the physical geography of the area, the thermals and moisture content too. Incredible picture.ww

[rlchew]

That is an amazing picture!!

Certainly different from the usual grey sky with undefined cloud or the blue sky with fluffy white Cumulus we see in the UK.

As WW says perhpas it is the forerummer to a tornado.

Richard

[Boddie]

That is a lovely cloud. I would like to own a cloud as I think they are very romantic and then I could gift it to people and this is probably one of the best I have ever seen. Imagine if you could order them up and send them out to people. Fantastic

[glsammy]

Originally Posted by Boddie

That is a lovely cloud. I would like to own a cloud as I think they are very romantic and then I could gift it to people and this is probably one of the best I have ever seen. Imagine if you could order them up and send them out to people. Fantastic

You old romantic.. Mind you this one looks a bit menacing to me, not so sure about what message it conveys..

[Boddie]

I too think it is menacing, but still a beauty. It looks very powerful. It would make a great gift. Better than a bunch of flowers

[nightshade]

Hi Rich that is one ominous cloud it looks solid and muscular ,snake/muscle

[Rich]

It didn't contain tornadoes, but produced a really heavy hail storm.

[ian_g]

I would call that a 'sky wave' for it looks like the crest of a wave within a stormy sea. As beautiful and quite alien as it may look, I'm rather glad we don't suffer the extremes of weather and disasters of geology that many other countries do. Okay, so some call repeatedly say how boring Britain is... move then, for I think we have the best of everything

I shall now step down from my soapbox and resume a normal way of life. Quite shocked at how cranky an amazing photograph of a cloud can get a middle-aged man so cranky in the morning!

Ian G

[Zeb]

A "supercell" - can develop into something further like a tornado or as already mentioned, just drop lots of rain and hail.

I've been storm chasing around Devon for a few years and would love to see something like this in the UK in a weird sorta way but plan to travel to Tornado Valley in the US sometime. Unfortunately we don't get much at all here but when we do I jump in the car and head right for them!

[Jonny]

Thats a serious cloud, like the one on my avatar..............Jon

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Boddie

That is a lovely cloud. I would like to own a cloud as I think they are very romantic and then I could gift it to people and this is probably one of the best I have ever seen. Imagine if you could order them up and send them out to people. Fantastic

Ah but where would you keep it ? , I'd rather own an iceberg - then you could keep it in the freezer. - talking of which when I was little I gave my mum a snowball I'd made specially for her and she kept it in the freezer for weeks.

[Wild-Woman]

My husbands aunty kept a hail stone in the freezer for years. It came down on Hayling Island in Hampshire during a storm which did damage to buildings and cars. It was the size of a golf ball. But every time she got it out to show people it got a bit smaller. Sadly it is no more. Julie

[cardiffclan]

excellent picture