6/25/2006: Rare cloud formation over Iowa

Undertoad · 06-25-2006, 11:42 AM

The clouds covered everywhere and roiled and boiled and moved like ocean waves. They said it looked like Independence Day, or massive sand dunes in the sky. I say... Iowa, you have been goatse'd by nature!

Local TV KCRG has a larger gallery of 16 great images of this phenomenon, which they say "looks like severe weather but isn't". Apparently these "wave clouds" (Wikipedia entry) are more commonly seen over mountainous areas, but somehow wound up getting created over flatlands in this case, which led to people getting all excited and taking pictures of the sky.

At that story link, check out the "Time Lapse of Wave Clouds" video - that's the most mind-boggling vision of what they were seeing, and really shows why they thought it was aliens.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-25-2006, 12:38 PM

It must have fairly widespread because several people have posted pictures of it on Wunderground the last few days.

06-25-2006, 03:34 PM

End days!

richlevy · 06-26-2006, 12:04 AM

This is your planet.

This is your planet on drugs.

Griff · 06-26-2006, 06:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

End days!

Cool! Do you realize how many generations of people weren't here to catch the end of the show?

LabRat · 06-26-2006, 10:02 AM

See, we have more than corn and hog manure!! Cool stuff occasionally happens here too!

MaggieL · 06-26-2006, 10:10 AM

When you're learing to fly, you're taught all about mountain wave because it can kill you. If this is all it takes to convince Iowans that they're being invaded by aliens, then we now have the explanation for a lot of UFO reports. :-)

xoxoxoBruce · 06-26-2006, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by LabRat

See, we have more than corn and hog manure!! Cool stuff occasionally happens here too!

But like everything else that's cool, it was just passing by.

LabRat · 06-27-2006, 11:26 AM

:p

Elspode · 06-28-2006, 12:01 PM

Iowa got bored, so it did The Wave?

06-25-2006, 11:42 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	6/25/2006: Rare cloud formation over Iowa The clouds covered everywhere and roiled and boiled and moved like ocean waves. They said it looked like Independence Day, or massive sand dunes in the sky. I say... Iowa, you have been goatse'd by nature! Local TV KCRG has a larger gallery of 16 great images of this phenomenon, which they say "looks like severe weather but isn't". Apparently these "wave clouds" (Wikipedia entry) are more commonly seen over mountainous areas, but somehow wound up getting created over flatlands in this case, which led to people getting all excited and taking pictures of the sky. At that story link, check out the "Time Lapse of Wave Clouds" video - that's the most mind-boggling vision of what they were seeing, and really shows why they thought it was aliens.

06-25-2006, 12:38 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It must have fairly widespread because several people have posted pictures of it on Wunderground the last few days. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 05:52 PM.

06-26-2006, 12:04 AM	#4
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	This is your planet. This is your planet on drugs. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

06-26-2006, 10:02 AM	#6
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	See, we have more than corn and hog manure!! Cool stuff occasionally happens here too! __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

06-26-2006, 10:10 AM	#7
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	When you're learing to fly, you're taught all about mountain wave because it can kill you. If this is all it takes to convince Iowans that they're being invaded by aliens, then we now have the explanation for a lot of UFO reports. :-) __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

06-27-2006, 11:26 AM	#9
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	:p __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

06-28-2006, 12:01 PM	#10
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Iowa got bored, so it did The Wave? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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06-25-2006, 03:34 PM	#3
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	End days!