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Shelter
from the Storm: Incredible and unusual clouds that herald a massive
downpour are spotted in the Midwest
- Bulbous formation turned sky over Iron Mountain orange
- Weather phenomenon, known as Mammatus, can be sign of storm
24
July, 2013
Ominous
clouds gathered over a Michigan city on Monday night, leading
residents to question what was causing the bulbous formations and if
they were a sign of rough weather ahead.
As
the orange-tinged clouds were spotted at about 8.30pm above Iron
Mountain, residents posted pictures of them on social media to see if
anyone could identify what they were.
Meteorologist
Jeff Last was finally able to resolve the mystery through Twitter,
when he identified the phenomenon as Mammatus.
His
tweet was in response to a picture Joe Nottage had put online, as he
asked: 'Can anyone explain this?' Skye reported.
Another
resident, Jason Asselin, filmed the clouds as they gathered over the
city.
'All
of a sudden it got very yellow outside, it felt strange and
mysterious,' he wrote on YouTube.
'It
was the craziest thing I have ever witnessed over my head. I almost
expected to see a tornado or something.'
His
assumption that the formation, which gathers under a larger cloud, is
a forewarning of severe weather was close to the truth.
The
clouds, which are formed after a sharp change in temperature or
moisture, can sometimes be a sign of an approaching thunderstorm or,
in some cases, a tornado.
Other
people struggled to describe the strange and beautiful weather
phenomenon.
In
his blog for the city's Daily News, Chris Tomassucci said: 'The
pictures really don't capture how eerie the whole experience was.'
He
added: 'The mammatocumulus that formed over Iron Mountain made
everything take on strange coloration. Greens looked more green,
blues more blue, and so on.'
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