# 7 Types of Rare and Amazing Clouds **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905 "2009-06-16T03:17:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905/21 "2009-06-20T04:00:19Z")
Those mammatus clouds are otherworldly. Also, the dude who posted the pictures looks an awful lot like Pauly Shore. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905/22 "2009-06-20T08:01:30Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Aw, I was hoping [lenticular clouds](http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/2014cdfd50343d5923d9cc2a4793c2c8997ec6af_m.jpg) might be in there. > > (rest of post snipped off) I don’t know if lenticular clouds count as rare- Mt. Rainier wears them as [jaunty hats](http://www.komonews.com/weather/blog/35631614.html) fairly often. Well, _I_ like to think they’re jaunty hats or slouchy berets, depending on the elevation. Visitors from outer state occasionally think they’re UFOs. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905/23 "2009-06-20T14:41:08Z")
I’m not sure how people can confuse those clouds with UFOs… They are a spectacular sight!! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905/24 "2009-06-20T18:32:32Z")
Pretty, I often find myself looking at clouds, just a moment of tranquility for my every day life. Sam, talking about meteorological phenomena, did you see the [rainbow over Bangkok last Sunday?](http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s282/sawasdee_che/Bangkok/IMG_0393.jpg), it was quite a sight, not just a rainbow, a [double](http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s282/sawasdee_che/Bangkok/IMG_0617.jpg) [rainbow](http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s282/sawasdee_che/Bangkok/IMG_0402.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905/25 "2009-06-20T19:38:58Z")
**FalconFinder** , it probably helps that there’s several military bases between observers and the mountain, so you get unexplained noises if you’re not used to finding Chinooks or big planes in an overcast sky. Also, if you catch a lenticular cloud at the right time of day it seems to glow. **Ale** , that rainbow is gorgeous! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905/26 "2009-06-21T02:16:32Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Sam, talking about meteorological phenomena, did you see the [rainbow over Bangkok last Sunday?](http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s282/sawasdee_che/Bangkok/IMG_0393.jpg), it was quite a sight, not just a rainbow, a [double](http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s282/sawasdee_che/Bangkok/IMG_0617.jpg) [rainbow](http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s282/sawasdee_che/Bangkok/IMG_0402.jpg). No, missed that. But I’ll tell ya, we got spoiled when we lived in Hawaii. Double rainbows are a daily occurrence there. From the rains up in the mountains even when it stays dry down in Honolulu and on the shore. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905/27 "2009-06-21T16:50:07Z")
Having grown up in Illinois, I thought I had seen most cloud formations, but wow. If I were driving along a highway, or sitting in my backyard, and saw a few of those rolling in - I think I would have a heart attack and die on the spot! Talk about skies of doom! ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905/28 "2009-06-21T20:29:25Z")
I’ve only seen the mammatus clouds twice and like others have said I felt impending doom when I saw them. Very cool and very ominous. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905/29 "2009-06-22T00:15:35Z")
> [@Leiko](#): > > **FalconFinder** , it probably helps that there’s several military bases between observers and the mountain, so you get unexplained noises if you’re not used to finding Chinooks or big planes in an overcast sky. Also, if you catch a lenticular cloud at the right time of day it seems to glow. > **Ale** , that rainbow is gorgeous! Ah ha! That would explain things! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-types-of-rare-and-amazing-clouds/499905.md?page=1)