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Title: Anyone know what this cloud formation is?
Post by: ｓｐｃ ｆｒｅｓｎｏ on November 27, 2017, 06:46:32 PM

Hey everybody! A year and a half ago, I took a picture of an interesting cloud formation (the little dome at the top) that I didn't recognize. I bet that it is some common thing that I have just never read about  :-|. If you know what it is, can you tell me how it is formed?

(photograph taken in early May 2016; Southeast Fresno, California)

P.S. First post  \:D/

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Title: Re: Anyone know what this cloud formation is?
Post by: ocala on November 27, 2017, 07:41:14 PM

Not sure if it's an actual cloud versus the airflow over the top of the cloud.
I see that a lot with building thunderheads down here in Florida in the summertime.

Title: Re: Anyone know what this cloud formation is?
Post by: SoMDWx on November 27, 2017, 07:54:10 PM

Pileus cap (cloud) ...

https://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/SkyPix/pileus.htm

Title: Re: Anyone know what this cloud formation is?
Post by: ｓｐｃ ｆｒｅｓｎｏ on November 27, 2017, 10:43:44 PM

Thanks for the replies so soon! 8-)