Mammatus clouds over Nebraska after a tornado

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image showing Mammatus clouds over Nebraska after a tornado

Spdrjay on March 23rd, 2018 at 01:01 UTC »

The thing I appreciate most about living in Washington State versus Oklahoma is looking at weird clouds and not worrying if they're going to turn tubular and destroy my house....

MyNameIsAVerb on March 23rd, 2018 at 04:15 UTC »

"Mammatus (mamma or mammatocumulus), meaning "mammary cloud", is a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud."

Basically, scientists were like, "Man. Those clouds look like a bunch of boobs," and named them accordingly.

Megaman1981 on March 23rd, 2018 at 04:42 UTC »

I used to live in Nebraska, and we'd get tornado warnings all the time. I never did see one, but I'd see clouds like this, and there was this weird stillness in the air like the whole town stopped. That's how I always knew it was serious and to get to shelter.