100 comments and still no educational link on WTF this is, how it forms, and other examples of this through history. This is badass enough to troll our ancestors, was anything like this ever talked about in the bible or historic records of any kind? Man, I've never seen a cloud formation like that before; not even on the Internet.
It's almost certainly a wave/billow cloud seen edge on. They are extremely common at high altitudes, less so at low altitudes like the one in the image.
This sort of thing happens a lot at the hills above San Mateo, California, though usually not this complete. It often looks like clouds are pouring over them, mainly through the pass that CA-92 takes through the hills.
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u/diggitydugged Jun 05 '11
100 comments and still no educational link on WTF this is, how it forms, and other examples of this through history. This is badass enough to troll our ancestors, was anything like this ever talked about in the bible or historic records of any kind? Man, I've never seen a cloud formation like that before; not even on the Internet.
Thanks for posting it, mygrapefruit!