Not sure those are cumulonimbus mammatus from these pix, Dave. When I've seen them, the bumps have been side-by-side on the bottom of a towering thunderstorm.
We need Darren's expert opinion here. Rick On Dec 18, 2013, at 04:08 , David Mann wrote: > We were warned about possible thunderstorms and hail which were supposed to > hit during the afternoon today. We actually had fine weather all day, but as > I was sitting down to eat my dinner I looked out the window and saw some > mammatus cloud. That has been on my list of things I want to see so I > grabbed the camera and went outside. > > Only trouble is I have a difficult foreground so I had to get what I could. > I was wishing I was up on the hill. But the lighting wasn't too bad so I'm > quite happy. > > http://gallery.multi.net.nz/gallery/49/#geso > > I seemed to be standing in a clear patch; the view in the opposite direction > (south, where it was coming from) was quite menacing. I thought we were > going to be hit big-time but it turned out to be nothing here. From what I > can see on the weather radar most of the action occurred out at sea. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
