{"id":3632,"date":"2005-09-16T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2009-10-19T02:27:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T08:27:34","slug":"mammatus-clouds-are-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/mammatus-clouds-are-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammatus Clouds are Creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hprcc.unl.edu\/nebraska\/june2004hastings-mammatus.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/creepymammatusclouds-small.jpg\" alt=\"creepymammatusclouds-small\" title=\"creepymammatusclouds-small\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8768\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matte_%28filmmaking%29\" class=\"external external_icon\">matte painting<\/a> gone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hprcc.unl.edu\/nebraska\/june2004hastings-mammatus.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">real<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blocked\">Mammatus (also known as mamma or mammatocumulus) is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. These pouches, typically measuring about half a kilometer in diameter, are often ragged, but may appear smooth. Their color is normally a bluish gray, the same as that of the host cloud, but direct illumination from the setting sun and other clouds may cause a gold or reddish cast. Mammatus can persist anywhere from minutes to hours, diffusing and disappearing over time.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanism of their production is poorly understood and has been little studied. The presence of very dry air beneath the cloud base is known to be a factor.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I swear I&#8217;ve never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mammatus\" class=\"external external_icon\">mammatus<\/a> clouds before today.  I&#8217;m still stuck in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cirrocumulus\" class=\"external external_icon\">cirrocumulus<\/a> world, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Tons of Mammatus cloud photos <a href=\"http:\/\/jornolsen.com\/osCommerce\/index.php?cPath=21\" class=\"external external_icon\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via ponzu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a matte painting gone real Mammatus (also known as mamma or mammatocumulus) is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. These pouches, typically measuring about half a kilometer in diameter, are often ragged, but may appear smooth. Their color is normally a bluish gray, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[516,1657,1637],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-clouds","tag-mammatus-clouds","tag-our-strange-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}