East Coast Storm Chasing

Integrant specialists of the Real Society of Meteorology (Royal Meterological Society) in the United kingdom finish to present a new type of cloud. Its name “Asperatus” comes of the Latin and means rough.

Photo: Cloud of the Asperatus type, registered on the sky of Hanmer Springs, in New Zealand. Credit: Merrick Davies.

The nature surprises when we observe the format of the new cloud. Imponent and until frightful, the new vapor mass has the aspect of a black and wavy mantle.

The new type of cloud was photographed in Britain Supreme and other parts of the world, as in New Zealand and the Scotland and led to the Society of Meteorology of the United kingdom for a deeper study. According to Gavin Justice of the peace, founder of the society, the Asperatus is as “the surface of an agitated sea”, seen of low.

The Asperatus not yet was recognized officially for the International and enclosed Meteorological Organization in the cloud list, but specialists defend its recognition. If she will be accepted, this will be the first variety of cloud since the classifications of 1953.

Meteorologistas believes that this type of cloud can be formed for the mixture of two air masses, one very hot and very cold other and if it would develop in the limit of both.

Other specialists find that this type of cloud can be resulted of a turbulence in the interior of a storm cloud, the Cumulonimbus (Cb). These are dense and can reach 10 the 20 height km and generally they cause great storms.

Meteorology today recognizes ten main types of clouds, subdivides in other types leading in account its internal forms and structures.

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Absloutely AMAZING !!! I have NEVER seen anything like that before !!

Truly amazing indeed! We had a storm out here in CA which produced frequent lighting...no rain...and filled the sky with these beautiful cloud formations. Maybe not so much like the pic above, but no doubt they were asperatus clouds!

If I saw that over my head, I'd pinch myself a couple times and see if I was dreaming.  That pic seems too unreal!