Alex Gallafent

Alex Gallafent

Alex Gallafent is the New York-based correspondent for The World. His reporting has taken him to Swaziland, Turkey, Chile, and India, among other places.

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Undulatus Asperatus: Say it Loud, it’s a New Cloud

September 24, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Undulatus asperatus (Photo: Jane Wiggins)

Undulatus asperatus (Photo: Jane Wiggins)

Cloud-spotters around the world are calling for a ‘new’ kind of cloud to be recognized.

Undulatus asperatus, says Britain’s Cloud Appreciation Society is a cloud variant that, until recently, had gone unnoticed.

If accepted by the international body that governs cloud classification, it will take its place in a lineage that dates back to the 1800s.

We want to see your best cloud pictures. Post them in the comments below.

Undulatus asperatus in Estonia. (Photo: Ave Maria Mõistlik/Wiki Commons)

Undulatus asperatus in Estonia. (Photo: Ave Maria Mõistlik/Wiki Commons)

Discussion

27 comments for “Undulatus Asperatus: Say it Loud, it’s a New Cloud”

  • Barbara Guy

    Barbara Guy

  • Barbara Guy

    Dragon’s Tongue

  • Barbara Guy

    This is Dragon’s Tongue – Other Superman Oops

  • Clint Reis

    Sunrise over Lake Tahoe, CA, USA

  • http://www.facebook.com/greggory.truedson Greggory Truedson

    Phoenix AZ. on09/12/12.

  • Don Baker

    Bizarrus Arizonensis :0

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chere-Kjrsten-Kifer/100001942865186 Chere Kjrsten-Kifer

    I see this cloud formation regularly in Philadelphia /Fairmount Park usually near sunset..Will upload photos later but a friend thinks they look like angel wings..elongated they do ..Quite beautiful just after sunset..I’m in a 9 story prewar building overlooking Fairmount Park

  • http://www.facebook.com/jcorvinus Jean Corvinus

    Rochester NH

  • http://www.facebook.com/karen.cooper.71066 Karen Cooper

    These may not be the right type. This was during a tornado warning. A smaller, more choppy, undulating type came before.

  • Samuel Jones

    Michigan City, Indiana, 9-22-12.

  • http://www.facebook.com/cliff.lopez Cliff Lopez

    I took this picture while working at Addison Airport(KADS) in Addison, Texas. November 2011. I still haven’t been able to find an explanation for this formation! I’m a certified storm chaser , but I can definitely say I haven’t seen anything like this before or ever since!!! Cliff_Lopez@yahoo.com. KEEP UP THE GREAT PROGRAMMING!

  • http://www.facebook.com/maria.kopelziw Maria Kopelziw

    Liquillo Puerto Rico 7/2012

  • http://www.facebook.com/toyin.onayemi OluToyin Ideophile Onayemi

    Houston, TX a few weeks ago

  • http://www.facebook.com/Abby1953 Abby Abramowitz

    I love clouds.

    • http://www.facebook.com/deepbluehue Deep Bluehue

      5th is wonderful . . . love those golden ones !

  • http://www.facebook.com/christopher.w.land.7 Christopher William Land

    I think I’ve seen undulatus asperatus when I lived in Texas. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it here in Sudbury, Ontario.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1257373115 Barbara Blough

    I took this picture standing in a friend’s front yard in Northbrook, IL at the end of June in 2012.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1257373115 Barbara Blough

    I took this picture standing in a friend’s front yard in Northbrook, IL at the end of June in 2012.

  • http://profiles.google.com/gallafent Alex Gallafent

    Thanks for all the cloud photos, everyone! Alex

  • http://twitter.com/newnorb27 Bronwen K. Maxson

    That is beautiful. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/larrydale13 Larry Dale Hodge

    Adak, Alaska, August 2012.

  • http://www.facebook.com/larrydale13 Larry Dale Hodge

    Lenticular cloud, Adak, Alaska, August 2012.

  • Christina Hernandez

    Two were taken while flying over Utah and Arizona and one was taken in San Francisco. All taken summer 2012.

  • Trail Mom

    Life is good — Look up! :D

  • Trail Mom

    Life is good — Look up! :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/kevin.c.gleason Kevin C Gleason

    My daughter took this photo as Hurricane Isaac skirted south of the east coast of Florida, August, 2012.

  • Mary Matejov

    Grand Canyon, 1995