Earth's Rarest Cloud Type Finally Caught on Camera | Asperitas Clouds

[@D0wnshift]

I think what I find most amazing, and charming, is that there is a society for appreciating clouds.

[@gaywizard2000]

I appreciate it too!

[@megamode]

The most non-offensive fan club

[@sonetagu1337]

Ngl i love looking at clouds, they make cool shapes and also sorta essential to make life i guess

[@flytrapYTP]

@@megamode the drama in the cloud appreciation club is steamy.

[@Hartono25277]

@@flytrapYTP i see what you did there 😏

[@dannydawn]

These clouds aren’t finally taped just now, we’ve known them for quite some time. We’ve had many pictures and recordings. Many stormchasers around the world made pictures or timelapses throughout the last two decades, including myself over here in Germany. They’re well known for a long time. The video itself is great, amazing footage and mostly correct information. But I really find the title a bit misleading…

[@flyisgame]

Yeah, that’s Astrum for you. They make good, informative videos, but also use clickbait titles that tend to be a stretch or half-truths.

[@sneakymilkman4203]

Yeah I have a few pics on my phone from a few years back

[@XGames-94]

@@flyisgame its called clickbait, the only way to have a chance online nowadays

[@Youngmuniii]

that’s how “they” get their views. by being misleading.

[@flyisgame]

@@XGames-94 Yep.

[@TheTonyMcD]

I live in Michigan, and I have seen these clouds before. They are quite an eerie sight and kind of unsettling almost. Around 2012-2013 I first saw them on two or three occasions covering the entire sky. It literally looked like a rough ocean in the sky. Since then I have seen them sparsely. The aren't like super crazy uncommon. I will usually see them three to four times a year. But it is very rare to see them cover the entire sky. Usually they will manifest just a couple of "waves" before dispersing into a bigger or more uniform cloud.

[@velnz5475]

I feel like this is a common sight in the northern midwest. Perhaps the ones we see are possibly due to rare conditions with the great lakes

[@teachingthecode4651]

Also from Michigan. I've seen these often enough also.

[@battynatty334]

Michigan, huh? I'm sorry.

[@threepe0]

@@velnz5475 I feel like I farted the entire National Anthem this morning. I’ll be sure to get it recorded next time.

[@teachingthecode4651]

@@velnz5475 Ignore the trolls.

[@johnsimun6533]

To anyone who is in the Cloud Appreciation Society, I appreciate that you are there, and have an deeper and more technical appreciation for clouds.

[@hatman4818]

We should start a Cloud Appreciation Appreciation Society

[@johnsimun6533]

@@hatman4818 I’m in CAAS

[@_sentrility4574]

Cloud Appreciation Society Appreciation Society

[@hawkinatorgamer9725]

I appreciate that you appreciated their appreciation. I pass a vote that we start a John Simun Appreciation Society to Appreciate your Appreciation and just Appreciate you. If anyone sees this, and appreciates it, please click the thumbs up button on the comment, that would be very much appreciated, and your appreciation is appreciated with utmost appreciation.

[@agranero6]

If you are in the Cloud Appreciation Society let me praise the fantastic book The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney that is the basic guide if wanna join.

[@anitaoakley9437]

I walked out of the grocery store one day in 2012, and my mouth fell open to see the sky full of Asperitus clouds. I ran home for my camera, and drove to a spot where I could capture a broad swath of sky. I contacted the cloud appreciation society, sent them a few shots. They said they were trying to get these clouds officially recognized. I wonder if they submitted my shots as part of their application.

[@prsearls]

As a pilot for most of my life, I have a keen interest in weather. I've seen these a few times. They can produce a very dramatic sky that looks very threatening. Sometimes, you see similar structures beneath towering cumulus or thunderstorms.

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Oh how interesting!

[@KaiTakApproach]

Also a pilot: seen these several times. They are not that rare. As a category of people we tend to look up a lot more than others, lol. I love these clouds every time I see them. They are super cool.

[@nicky9589]

Not a pilot.. but extremely interesting. Thanks for sharing. 🙏

[@flyfin108]

alumium oxide gives best colors! love em

[@Wake13]

@@KaiTakApproach These asparagus clouds better not smell like pee!

[@MrSuzuki1187]

Noctilucent clouds are equally as rare. They form at extreme altitudes, sometimes 50 miles high. I was an airline pilot prior to my retirement and during one of my 100 trans Atlantic flights, I saw noctilucent clouds one night in the middle of the North Atlantic. All of the other pilots on the radio frequency were talking about what we were seeing and how rare it was.

[@jaredguerra2222]

I saw one recently while at sea around twilight.. it looked so luminous, very cool

[@KarateLauren]

Just looked up a picture! That looks amazing, I would love to see some in person.

[@anitaoakley9437]

That’s on my wish list. Ever since I read about them I’ve wanted to see noctilucent clouds!

[@OneBalance]

The footage at 5:00 was in Lincoln, NE. I remember working that day as a valet at the Embassy Suites. I was so awestruck by what I was seeing that I stopped working to run to the top of a parking garage to get a more panoramic view of the sky. The colors, the shapes, and the movement of the clouds was one of the most exhilirating things I've seen in my life. What an experience!

[@g0desq]

wow! i wish to experience it irl

[@x1warrior1x85]

when was it? i remember seeing something similar in kc a few years ago

[@sci-filover7541]

When I was young, my grandmother and I saw a cloud that looked like a little wise elf wearing a conical hat, the cloud rising up with us as we drove up the mountain. It was heavenly. Some coincidences make our day happy and unforgettable.

[@WorshipLeaderHangout]

I noticed this cloud type for my first time in Cleveland, TN about 2009. So beautiful. The first thing I thought was how they looked like an ocean just as this video suggests. Love it. Great video.

[@z-beeblebrox]

Meteorology is wild. Human civilization has been around for over 12 thousand years, identifying cloud formations is as easy as just looking up, and yet SO much of what we currently understand has only been confirmed in the past 25 years. I don't think there's any other scientific field where observation is this easy but finding suspected, rare classifications is so hard

[@jasonsphinx8461]

Heh..

[@roth4916]

Humans, and probably their ancestors/cousins have been using the clouds/stars/nature to travel and know upcoming weather for 10's upon 10's of thousands of years, not just since we developed agricultural societies! The motivations behind why we do so have changed over time, such as needing to know the weather for crops & constellations for navigation across the oceans, rather than for following animal migrations/foraging grounds. With modern technology, we are now getting to know WHY these things exist/form in the first place, and that is a whole new level of fascinating!

[@АртемЛысенко-щ5ф]

@@jasonsphinx8461 “Heh..” mf what do you want

[@not2tees]

And never a mention of weather-adaptation techniques via high intensity atmospheric waves such as HAARP "used to" send out.

[@alveolate]

it also matters how rare some of these clouds are, which may be a function of their genesis, i.e. what conditions are required for them to form. if the requirements are simply not available commonly where humans tend to reside, then such clouds (or really, any meteorological phenomena) may escape direct observation until more recently. modern tech has allowed almost anyone with just a fleeting interest in such phenomena to assist in documentation, which is a HUGE boon for transient phenomena. we no longer need to be trained meteorologists or even amateur scientists to help "describe" these events, because we can simply whip out our smart phones and record. the quality of documentation - including metadata - plus the widespread availability of weather measurements, allows meteorologist to crosscheck data with weather conditions and get better guesses at what caused it. now... to figure out ball lightning...

[@franl155]

I find it fascinating that these cloud types have probably existed as long as there's been clouds, but only now have they been officially recognised; this old earth has so many surprises for the enquiring mind. As someone said "There's nothing new under the sun, but there's lots of old things that we haven't discovered yet".

[@RaneBoDasch]

I think rare formations like these becoming more common is a result of global warming. Wouldn't surprise me if we start seeing a lot of other unusual cloud and weather anomaly soon.

[@franl155]

@@RaneBoDasch - Very true - and very likely.

[@someweirdguy5721]

Except it's not like these closet didn't exist until they were labeled I've seen these clouds all the time

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

There are new things all the time if u think about it, because of evolution and it's main driving force = adaptation. Ecosystem's and local environment are always changing, and new species appearing, or sadly viruses Even the geography and chronological history of the planet changes gradually

[@robertnett9793]

That is really a genuinly intriguing quote :D

[@davidowens1132]

These clouds make sense to me when I remember that we actually live at the very bottom of an atmospheric ocean. The flow patterns of both wind tunnels and water tunnels (an experimental facility used for testing the hydrodynamic behavior of submerged bodies in flowing water.) They are eerily similar to the other.

[@freshrot420]

It's defly easy to think open air is inert, yet it's what fills our fishbowl!

[@suiginmigasuto3356]

@@freshrot420 I’d say that in our case. It’s more of an “air bowl”. Lol

[@mde3370]

Eery because of the similarities? Our "wind" is particularly made up of tiny water. It would make sense why the flow and patterns are similar with the ocean..

[@LenKirin]

That makes sense, I've taken heat transfer and fluid mechanics at uni and mediums like air are considered fluids like water, just of different densities!

[@TanyutHuidrom]

Wouldn't it be the top of the atmospheric ocean? Considering that temperatures drop in the ocean as we go deeper and similarly in the atmosphere they drop as we go higher (till about 40,000 feet)?

[@kalen1702]

This is so fascinating. I have seen Asperitas clouds several times in my life (twice in 2021) here in Iowa where you mention the woman who took the photo from her office. The most extreme version of this cloud I saw was at Iowa State University last year on a calm day in September where they just rolled in and suddenly the entire skyline from my 9th floor apartment was just wavy/bumpy clouds for miles. Very cool sight

[@postmodernjoe]

That’s so weird I’m from iowa too and saw them twice Maybe they are common in the Midwest?

[@cameronjones8400]

I've seen them multiple times in my life in Iowa. I actually happened to see them over Ames many years ago

[@yahart5349]

When I was living in Ames, in August 2004, I amazingly witnessed the Asperitus clouds over the Ames, Iowa airport. Fast forward to October 2023 and again witnessed these fascinating clouds over Southeastern Ohio. Seems like they have an affinity for the midwest? I live in the Southeast now and have never seen anything close so far.

[@jashserfus6870]

I have seen these clouds in the Lockyer Valley in Queensland, Australia. I've got several photos of them. Strangest clouds I've ever seen. They were followed by a pretty nasty storm.

[@gotyouchip1179]

I think its amazing that with such widespread technology in the world there is a whole lot more scientific data being collected at all times, that leads to significant discoveries.

[@WanderTheNomad]

The good side of the interconnectedness of the internet

[@dadsgarage420]

And then the end of man kind…. Buahahaha

[@dmacrolens]

So, obvious and predictable outcomes is amazing?

[@gotyouchip1179]

@@dmacrolens Yes, depending on the nature of the outcome.

[@linzyc4696]

I think about this too !

[@FrankClark]

I've only seen this type of phenomena once, and that was in the early 2000's near Pontiac Michigan. We were under a tornado watch at the time (one did touch down several miles away eventually), but i was so transfixed by the chaotic cloud movements that my coworkers couldn't convince me to get inside to safety LOL!

[@Vandylizer]

Thanks for sharing Frank! I live in Clarkston so it's cool to know the next town over is actually seeing stuff like this, it gives me hope ai might see some if I stay vigilant. Also, looking at the other comments - why us this video being recommended to so many Michiganders? lol

[@persistentdreams]

I saw it too around the same time in Chicago. It could have been the same storm. I regretted not having a camera at the time, but I'll never forget the way those clouds looked.

[@samuelponce1]

When this storm happen in the 00s was it during the day and it was a wired color outside also did it have anything to do with a solar eclipse

[@Halo_Legend]

Did you die?

[@dull_demon4717]

i also saw them back in the early 2000s, but over here in Virginia

[@MoteofVolition]

I've seen these a few times. I legitimately thought they were uncommon. Not rare. Normally in squally weather, ahead of worse to come. Awesome stuff!

[@winstonelston5743]

See my remark about the Blizzard of '93. It was like the Asperitas was leading in the nastier stuff.

[@MoteofVolition]

@@winstonelston5743 Couldn't see your comment at a cursory glance. Good to know there's consensus though, seems they may be somewhat of a forewarning to intense weather in some scenarios. Amazing planet we live on.

[@McSlobo]

Yeah, I think so too. I believe these clouds look as they look not because they're super special but because how they're illuminated. The surroundings must allow the light to pass correctly to allow the clouds to look as they look.

[@zenithkaijaou4182]

I have seen these clouds a few times in person and they always look so cool!

[@MoteofVolition]

@@McSlobo Nah, they are definitely a bit different to normal wind buffeted clouds. Even when not illuminated they look odd. They stand out like mammatus clouds, eye catching for sure!

[@charlotteoceane]

In the Netherlands the weather is overcast most of the time, and I see these clouds several times a year! In fact, probably more often than cumulonimbuses. They do make it feel like the end of the world sometimes, indeed, but I love it.

[@JustAnotherFox]

I've seen this cloudform only once, a long time ago. I never forgot that day. It was like the raging waters of a stormy sea, a beautiful yet chaotic dance of waves engulfing the entire sky.

[@mikedimples]

I love the way you write

[@paulschmolke188]

I’ve been a cloud watcher since I was about 5 and I’m now almost 77. My favorites are summer formations like anvil heads and variations. During the cold months we have plenty of lenticular types. I do still photos as frequently as I’m able. I have quite a collection. Good video, very thought provoking, thanks. I think I need to start doing movies of them or time lapse. I have miles of clear sky visible from my house with mountains. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@waaaaantube]

Yayyyyy. Don't forget to share some, ya know.

[@martinhastingsis]

Good Luck Paul. Yes it is all so much easier with the modern gear and an adaptable mindset; coupled with the right spot and opportunity. I lack the gear and modern mindset but have been blessed with working and/ or living in the right environment for most of my 65 years. Wish some of today's gear had been available when I was still active. Not for my sake; because I was there and have the collections inside me still; including the "Clouds" collection. Blessings from New Zealand.

[@hayvenforpeace]

I saw these clouds yesterday while out hiking in the mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert. They were above a pretty nondescript stratocumulus layer (which I hiked through on the way to the summit). This area got a lot of monsoon moisture in the last few days, and these clouds showed up just after a big rain storm. Above the stratocumulus cloud layer (near / on the mountain peak) it was very windy and unusually cold!

[@hayvenforpeace]

@Sarah Nguyen I see no reason to take your magical thinking seriously. All scientific and historical evidence available to me suggests that reality is entirely physical in nature, and that the claims of religions - or any supernatural claims - are likely to be false. Also, there are numerous philosophical problems with any sort of god existing. Finally, what you write is vaguely racist and just false-Vietnamese herbs don’t lose their taste (I eat Viet food in the US all the time, it’s still packed with flavor!). I don’t see any reason to stop being skeptical unless there is actual evidence, not just appeals to authority, dogmatic claims, and hearsay. Do you have any evidence to back up your religious claims?

[@hayvenforpeace]

Last thing: you mention Shakyamuni Buddha, but fail to mention that he was highly critical of the religions of his time and didn’t emphasize belief in the supernatural as a path to liberation. According to numerous Buddhist writings, he claimed that accepting the four truths and following the noble eightfold path, releasing attachment, etc. will bring liberation. It wasn’t wrapped up in obedience to some human leader, or belief in some claims that don’t correspond to reality.

[@riverAmazonNZ]

I feel like I’ve seen this several times here in NZ. I’m always watching the sky but I never thought of making it a hobby. It’s just something I do.

[@Lorten369]

Yeah Seen them a lot here in Denmark too. Hurray for Geo engineering.

[@Karin_Allen]

I've seen them here in the southern US. Maybe they're a worldwide phenomenon and folks who've see them (like me) don't know they're looking at something so unusual that it didn't get a name until 2017.

[@riverAmazonNZ]

@@Karin_Allen Ithink that’s it. I knew it was uncommon, but I figured somebody else had named it.

[@ufospacelife]

I am from NZ too. In fact The earth's atmosphere is home to a large number of different types of energy organisms. As their body have huge energy, Their ecological environment forms a variety of discharge phenomena in our atmosphere such as : most of the thunderstorms, lightning, typhoons and Earth's magnetic barriers……

[@nunyabisnass1141]

Same. Here in the US i havent seen every example shown in the video, but im pretty sure I've seen this many times.

[@zebramittens4072]

I saw this once a few years ago at the beach as a thunderstorm was rolling in. It was terrifying, with huge black clouds rolling from the ocean towards our house very quickly.

[@RyanMonoxide]

Didn’t know these weren’t common. We get these clouds quite often in the High Desert if California. I’ve done many time lapses that look just like the asperitas clouds filmed here. Looks just like waves as mentioned especially in time lapses.

[@Dan-gi6tf]

I haven't seen one in my entire life!

[@Shparky]

Hey Alex, Kyle from Aus here. I just wanted to let you know that you're videos are always wonderful and insightful, and brighten my day immeasurably. Thank you for putting the effort into making such awesome videos, and I hope you retain your passion for them for a very long time. Cheers!

[@TheSilmarillian]

NSW here hello there

[@M4st3rDuck]

Ive seen these a couple of times. Reminds me of being a kid wearing goggles in a bubble bath and looking up while splashing around and seeing the bubbles and foam have different colors from the thinner and thicker regions. Definitely a great cloud to visualize that air is a fluid.

[@cake6420]

Shuuuuttt uuuupppp

[@Skyman58]

@@cake6420 ?

[@orppranator5230]

@@cake6420 Oh ok, sorry guys we gotta quiet down. Squirt says so.

[@cake6420]

@@orppranator5230 darn right boy get me a cookie while your at it

[@JJ-fr2ki]

I have spent lots of time watching clouds-a life well lived and have seen these as well and even wondered if I could use them to predict winds over 5 minute intervals. My experiments in the Sierra Nevadas were inconclusive.

[@wixardo]

I've seen them once, it was really stormy and the clouds moved fast, it felt like something out of a end of the world horror movie. It was scary yet very fascinating, couldn't stop looking at it and we filmed it for several minutes. Video doesn't really do it justice though, there's an unspeakable feeling when you're below them and everywhere you see looks apocalyptic.

[@jameskelly3745]

What would an Apocalypse look like? How would we know?

[@jkjoegunz]

Yeah, I've seen these clouds to acouple of times as well. Although my most vivid memory of them, was after a storm(I think), where it was relatively calm.

[@jonathonsmith6831]

@@jameskelly3745 just wait

[@jameskelly3745]

@@jonathonsmith6831 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Wait for what?

[@jameskelly3745]

@@jonathonsmith6831 Do your research. The first prediction said in the year 1000. Since then there have been several times the rapture or apocalypse was supposed to have happened even in 2012. LOL it's ridiculous. But you keep telling yourself that I'm not interested LOL. I'm not convinced anything Supernatural exist unless you think you can prove it.

[@Dovey12]

Loving the fact I can say I’ve seen this formation in person at least 3 times within the last 4 years

[@davidwood5789]

😲😳😮😬🗣️💨

[@4u2nvinmtl]

I've seen this happen once in my city and I stopped to photograph it. It felt like I was under a sea of rolling boiling clouds absolutely incredible.

[@sir2657]

Send it to the cloud appreciation society lol

[@jus10lewissr]

It's crazy the amount of times I witnessed this type of clouds while living in the Black Hills area of South Dakota for 11 months. I had never seen them before in my life (I'm from the South) and suddenly I was seeing them quite frequently. I haven't witnessed a single once since leaving South Dakota, though, and doubt I'll ever seen them again.

[@DaveE99]

What’s special about that area?

[@jus10lewissr]

@Sarah Nguyen I don't understand how your religious rant pertains to clouds or my comment in general.

[@vegancharlieleeblue]

You're probably right with doubting to ever see them again, the cloud types are rare, and I totally believe that some locations have quite unique weather conditions that can have rare cloud types like you mentioned. You reminded me of a similar experience I had as child (in a Town outside the States) with rare clouds that appeared like a snake moving its tail. Thank you for sharing!

[@JustMe-mn4gr]

Could be our government's weather manipulation activities. eg chemtrails

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

I saw them a couple times in Illinois.

[@skybluespace22]

I love all earth and space phenomenon, thanks Alex for this inclusion. Earth physics is so fun.

[@rarebird_82]

Asperatus undulatus I believe, I've been a weather geek for 30 years and never seen these in full form in person, only online about 8yr ago. Their liquid-like waves show how "fluid" our atmosphere really is 👌🏻

[@astrumspace]

Asperatus undulatus was the old name before the classification was made :)

[@rarebird_82]

@@astrumspace Thanks for the update Alex, happy to stand corrected, we learn something new every day. All the best ✌🏻

[@abloobean]

I remember seeing these clouds in June. It was early in the morning and I was setting off to work. The clouds did seem different. The sky was a deep greenish-blue. I got to work and looked up. The waves were uniform, they Sky turning almost a Navy blue. It was a surreal experience. It was pretty but yet felt almost apocalyptic as started to storm. Within minutes of getting to my work. The sky was as dark as night. 9 am turned 9 pm. I've never seen it rain so hard in my life.

[@vegancharlieleeblue]

I had a similar experience when I traveled abroad as a young child. I've never seen it rain so hard and as much lightning and thunder again either. A huge snake formed in the sky after the clouds eclipsed the day. The people in the town I was in called it a "Culebra" (Snake), the people in the town had seen it before and they all prayed and would wave a knife towards the snake formation because they believed it was evil (I don't know what kind of ritual that was because the town Priest told them to do that to help "cut the snake" as they prayed). It was scary, the tail of the snake formation cloud would move from side to side and it would direct lightning with hurricane type wind from its tail when it moved. I have NEVER seen that again. I've asked my Mother about it recently and she said she prayed she would never have to see that again (Lol).

[@Meggligee]

I’ve seen these clouds multiple times and pretty sure I have captured some in photos. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this very informative video!

[@zakiabdurrahim1054]

Can't believe we get these incredible videos for free! Thanks, Astrum!

[@lis7742]

It's like a fluid on top of another fluid, maybe the air close to the ground was a lot colder and the very dense water-filled clouds were warmer, creating these beautiful clouds. Looks like watching surf waves from underneath. Just like we have oceans under water we have oceans in the sky. I love to see how matter is influenced by gravity and temperatures in so many layers, both on Earth and other planets.

[@NickkaDUB]

Think about how SRM (solar radiation management) actually makes a greenhouse effect making it warmer on the surface which was the opposite of their intentions, yet they keep doing it. He doesn’t mention weather modification having any effect on the crazy things we see. It looks cool, but can’t be trusted.

[@injunsun]

See my response thread. On the coast of Lake Michigan, in West Michigan, I saw these every time we had major storms, and the air would suddenly get cold.

[@zeetop5433]

Maybe these clouds only form in solar minimums and that's why it's so rare, because the last time we had one was in the 1800's.

[@gristlevonraben]

It's not just gravity and temperature, but buoyancy too! Two items, of the same weight will sit in water or air at different depths if one is bigger but hollow. Ice is lighter than water, snow and hail is lighter than rain in equal volumes. Warm air and clouds don't rise due to temperature alone, but because the temperature adds energy to atomic/molecule collisions which spreads out the particles, yet creating a hazy barrier to cooler thicker clouds, thus the colder clouds and cooler air is so much denser that it squeezes the lighter clouds upwards. I knew you knew that, but wanted you to see clouds in a new way, as boats! And pirate ships, lol. Have a good day!

[@youngeshmoney]

How can we have oceans UNDER WATER🤣

[@theDEADLIESTwarrior7]

I've seen them once in person, I've never seen them again and it's been so many years lol they're beautiful

[@Bonafide-tard]

Saw it once with my mom in our home town, it was just before a lighting storm too.

[@melissajade7717]

I made a comment a year ago about only seeing these in pictures. I've finally seen them now! They appeared after a storm broke up heading where I was staying. All I had was my phone so I couldn't get good images and they were far in the distance so it was no use. I'm happy to have finally seen these myself. I was overjoyed. Hope I'll see them again eventually.

[@slightlyspud6419]

honestly this is really cool that these clouds are getting recognition because i remember as a little kid seeing these clouds while at school and everyone just marvelling at them. It was such a great experience seeing these clouds like my mind quite literally exploded seeing it and i told my parents but they didnt believe me since they were all the way on the otherside of town when this happened but it was so cool to me honestly

[@Josh40996]

Strange, in my area these cloud types are fairly common; seen probably once per month. Wasn't aware they was so unusual, but incredibly visually striking!

[@EmanVsEmmanueL]

Same

[@acoustixminor87]

where at?

[@CordovaMage]

I always thought they were just called gravity wave clouds.

[@jeff3388]

@@acoustixminor87 I'm in Collingwood, Ontario and we get these fairly often. It happens when theres a stratus layer blowing over blue mountain to the northwest. Looks pretty cool.

[@rarebird_82]

Yep... youtubers love to act like their topics are exclusive. Tiresome isnt it? 🙄🥱

[@BallisticDamages]

Love seeing these clouds, I usually manage to see them a couple times a year at least where I live. They can be absolutely breathtaking, at the top of my list with Noctilucent clouds and lenticular clouds!

[@winstonelston5743]

I remember this cloud type from Friday, 12 March, 1993, the day the Blizzard of '93 was building into the Atlanta area. I was working in McDonough that day. The cloud deck was mostly mackerel skies and nacreous cirrostratus high and Asperitas swirling at lower elevations. The Asperitas seemed to come through in bands.

[@EphemeralProductions]

I saw these over my town a few years ago here in the western US. I wished like HELL i had a professional camera AND the time to do a time lapse of them! Haven’t seen them before or since and I’m almost 50.

[@kermitefrog64]

I have noticed these types of cloud masses several times in the last few years. It is like seeing a rolling river of water.

[@ariessweety8883]

"Nature may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes." That's beautiful. I absolutely love your videos ❤️ Have a blessed day Alex 💜

[@CloudsGirl7]

Holy Cripes - I've seen those clouds so many times in recent years here in the Midwest. I don't remember them before that - I'm pretty sure kid-me, a weather nerd even then, would've gone nuts seeing them, and I would have remembered them. Up until now, I've been calling them "Dol Guldur skies" because of how they look like the kind of ominous clouds replicated for the atmosphere of the scenes that take place at that fortress in the film adaptation of The Hobbit.

[@tranq_2334]

Yes! I'm surprised to hear that they're rare; Every once in awhile when the Minnesotan weather decides to act up they're prone to show up. A sight to behold at some points.

[@Acetyl53]

Copying my other comment. Yeah, that's not a cloud type. It's caused by geonegineering. You're seeing the effects of pumping a few hundred gigawatts of power in the VLF band into the ionosphere by ground based ionospheric heaters. That's why you see a propagating compression rarefaction pattern, the metallic particles and so on are being excited by, again, ground based phased array transmitters. HAARP is an example of an ionospheric heater, though there are others. These aren't new cloud types they're secondary to technological climate and weather manipulation, to say it's a new type just recognized is utterly absurd.

[@MetallicAAlabamA]

I've been fortunate to have seen this cloud type 2 times in my lifetime. And both were within a year of one another. First time was in 2016 then again in 2017. Both episodes were right after a severe thunderstorm event involving multiple cluster thunderstorms that produced heavy rain and strong winds. It was very interesting to see what seemed like huge ocean caps, but underneath a cloud base.

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

As someone who loves riding out bush at any season, during the wet season I can see heaps of unique cloud formations including these ones, I've been seeing them for Years and they really are beautiful, sometimes I just love to watch some of them move across the sky for a few Hours.

[@martinhastingsis]

I've seen these in New Zealand and Australia. They definitely leave one with a sense of foreboding. In Canberra (2010 or 11), they appeared three mornings in a row and lasted till mid afternoon, but no rain, not much wind at ground level either. At that time I was aware of them, mainly because of an article I'd read in 2004ish shortly after the first time I'd seen them in Central Hawhes Bay NZ. On these 4 occasions, they covered the entire sky, on other occasions just areas of sky and it did rain each time. Don't know if that is significant or just a coincidence. Cheers for this coverage and blessings to all you skywatches out there.

[@Chris.Davies]

I have seen a formation like at 1:53, except it was embedded in smooth lenticulars. I even photographed it. Above the mountain tops of the southern alps of New Zealand. In the MacKenzie country south of Mount Cook - close to the Ohau ski area. Looking westward, I could see gorgeous smooth wave clouds stacking up vertically, and creating north-south cloud streets. Very spectacular stuff, with awesomely smooth lift for gliders, but this was just the beginning. Literally as I watched, a stacked set of lenticulars started to fold over itself, twisting like a long pile of paper with one end rotating. Over a period of about five minutes, a section roughly 10km long and 700 - 1000 metres in height turned into a perfect stationary/standing helix formation. It was extremely stable - just as most ordinary lenticular clouds are, but the three dimensional nature of the formation was truly baffling. I was a glider pilot, and so I have studied clouds quite a lot, and I had never once heard of anyone ever seeing another lentic' formation like this one. When it was happening, I briefly wondered if the universe was simulated, and that this was a math glitch. But the existence of chatoyance in some quarter-sawn woods is a good argument against that idea, I think.

[@clairpahlavi792]

Electricity in the atmosphere created that helix.

[@uhuhno6441]

Interesting.

[@scottmantooth8785]

*wow*

[@HP-fn4bo]

Are your photos posted anywhere?

[@HP-fn4bo]

@Chris Davies okay I have spent 20 minutes googling all kinds of things about chatoyance and quarter sawn vs plain and rift sawn wood. In a nutshell can you tell me why the presence of chatoyamce in quarter sawn wood would dissuade a person from simulation theory? Thx!

[@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze]

These can’t possibly be that rare, growing up in northwest Chicagoland I’ve seen a vivid and unmistakable display of these clouds at least 3 times in my life although I think there was a 4th time. Can’t believe they were first classified in 2017. I haven’t seen them since 2017. Every sighting I’ve had was late 2000s to early 2010s

[@HighOverlordSnarffieBeagle]

yeah I just left a comment about how I've been seeing them since I was a kid, I live in Illinois but down near St. Louis

[@bigblueshoe777]

They aren't necessarily rare, just *comparatively* rare. There are much rarer phenomenon, but those remain classified in their own category, and its only with enough commonality that something can be classified as a "type of cloud." This channel tends to use hyperbole more than I like, I've noticed. He repeatedly calls it a "discovery" as if nobody had ever seen these before. What went on is really just the same kind of thing as officially reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.

[@jonathansantos2271]

great updates! we will continue to consummate cloud directions. thank you for sharing.

[@guppybill]

"Nature may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes." Yep!

[@rick49]

Pics/vids of the rarest of clouds. Awesome! Yet still no photos of bigfoot, anywhere.

[@fallandbounce]

In spring of '19, in southwest Florida, I not only saw clouds like this, but also a type of lightning I'd never seen before. Moving slowly across, and hugging, the bottom of the clouds in waves, like plasma spreading around. You could hear crackling, but no bangs. It was night time, and really amazing. It only lasted a short while.

[@jamesbooth5390]

I seen the exact same thing. I believe it was during the Covid period I was living in upstate Ny and It went on for a small period of my drive across town. No rain. No thunder. Just this weird lightning show that rolled thru the sky.

[@maiwenn3345]

There’s a type of lightning that doesn’t really produce noise and it’s when the electricity charge is exchanged in between clouds and doesn’t fall to the ground. I’ve seen it but not with these types of clouds tho.

[@badcornflakes6374]

@@maiwenn3345 I saw that in Illinois during a blizzard. Blizzard lightning.

[@justdave9610]

we always called that heat lightning

[@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667]

Once I saw a mamuts cluds. What a wonderful experience. 💖🌍

[@Insomni_maniac]

"Cloud Appreciation Society" this is my first time hearing about it. what an adorably wholesome group

[@Dinoenthusiastguy]

Loving all the cloud and weather-related content! Does anyone know of any other channels that make content like this?

[@sergpie]

Saw the same types of clouds over Bolivia in 2011, and, given the altitude, the clouds were awfully close, and it was genuinely intimidating. Shortly after, it snowed by the time we got to the Bolivia-Chile border.

[@moyashi_]

This is so weird! As a kid, I used to have dreams about these, without ever even knowing that they were clouds. At the time I thought I was just dreaming about something arbitrary. Very surreal to finally find out what those dreams likely were.

[@saladinbob]

Sometimes we're so focused on discovering what's out there we forget there's still so much to discover down here on our own planet.

[@IIISentorIII]

Where i live in Switzerland we have those wave clouds "often" i would say i see them at least once in two-three months time. I always liked them and often takes photos. I didn't know they are supposed to be very rare ;)

[@TheMikesylv]

The narrator of this film is very good, very easy and relaxing to listen to

[@Tiger351]

I'm glad I can finally identify what I saw back in March 2003, I identified them at the time as a strange unknown (to me) sub category Cumulostratos. This cloud formation was observed immediately prior to a sudden severe summer storm that approached low from the west over a mountain range in Eastern Australia that is known for causing sudden updraughts and turbulence in westerly airflows moving over it, the formation was accompanied by gale force winds and quickly followed by heavy rain and hail lasting around 1 hour. To top it all off it was the lowest to the ground cloud formation I have ever seen, in my estimation it seemed to be a little less than 200 m from ground level where I observed it from (around 150m above sea level).

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

The clouds looks like it belongs on a completely different alien planet, it’s otherworldly and spine chilling to look at.

[@jbuddenbohn2]

I’ve seen that kind of atmospheric disturbance a good handful of times. I’m sure others have too. Amazing how so many of us I’m sure, myself included, never thought that it was “unknown” or “undocumented”. I’ve only seen it a handful of times in my life, but, it’s just funny to me how much we might be experiencing of nature that may be even more extraordinary than we realize.

[@DeeJayPancakes]

I have absolutely no reason why this was on my recommendations but worth the watch. Enjoyed

[@MrDrRock]

Considering all the recording I've seen of this cloud formation being in cities. Could it be heat columns of air coming off buildings, concrete, or equipment?

[@astrumspace]

Could also be that there are more people in cities to see them

[@peacefindersimply5001]

@@astrumspace more like to report them, clouds aren't hard to see(for the most part).

[@samhilton4173]

I've seen these clouds hundreds of times, especially when I lived on North England. Me and my brother would constantly say they looks like huge waves in the sky, like an upside down tsunami.

[@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667]

Awesome channel with awesome content and great quality as always say 🌍

[@aaronhazlett]

Circa 99 I was living in East Chicago Indiana when I saw one of these. There was also thunder coming from the cloud. A sound I’ll never forget and haven’t heard since. I felt as if I was in a dream or another world. Amazing

[@RayMak]

So extremely beautiful and breathtaking

[@meucantogames6952]

I witnessed it once, in south Brazil 15 years ago. It was an unusual dark and windy winter day sudden wind reached 100km/h taking down a few trees, poles, and walls. It was midday and I was returning from lunch when the clouds started to "boil" and even a couple of twists started to form but fortunately none landed that day.

[@elleni-41]

I absolutely love this channel..ive binge watched every video.😅😅...👌👍💞

[@jamespatrick20906]

Hello 👋 can I ask you a question if you don’t mind?

[@noname-je3mx]

When I was a kid I saw what were “rolling” clouds going over my daycare. Idk if it’s the same thing but hey it was still pretty crazy. Not really waves though, just really big rolling cylinders in the sky made of clouds.

[@Jimblethorp]

I get these beautiful clouds here in PA every time the seasons change, and they look just as crazy and mesmerizing every time.

[@RosettaAceAlmaak]

I spent three months in Colorado observing asperitas clouds, and May-June they were super common. Almost every big storm brought them. -I think orography is a significant factor in the formation of asperitas clouds, as the storms in which I found them all originated in the Rockies. There's a special type of storm that starts in the Rockies and rushes north toward Greeley, and that's where they always appeared. -Wind shear and sinking air are also notable causes, as the asperitas clouds I found were frequently accompanied by mammatus clouds. Personally I think asperitas clouds form under a variety of conditions and appear different depending on the cause. Some are smoother and less defined, while others have very steep curves and look rough.

[@pohldriver]

I've seen the sizable waves lots of times. But, a few years ago I saw one of those that are really deep. It was behind a wall cloud, so you couldn't see it until you crossed underneath. While the face looked like other supercells, on the inside it went almost straight up. It was as if the cell was hollow.

[@Viki-zo1bc]

Those clouds look awesome. Makes me feel like we're living in an underwater world.

[@emcee2603]

The waters above and below

[@assassino8518]

I remember seeing such clouds few years ago in Oudtshoorn, south africa. Was very dark gray and wavy, but seeing the rest of this vid, i came to see them alot there without really knowing it was actually a rare event

[@KristofferEngstrom]

Ive seen this type of clouds atl a few times every year for the last decade. Could never imagined it was so special. I do live in the SW of Sweden.

[@ego_lore]

i remember years back when i was younger, there was a big blizzard where the sky had these clouds right before it started to snow really heavy. it was so so beautiful and i wish i could see it again but we dont ever get that kind of weather here where its hot and humid

[@kitchentroll5868]

Like others, I recall seeing this could type frequently in the Ohio River Valley where the storms coming off the Great Plains become uplifted by the Appalachian Plateau and a bit funneled into the Ohio River Valley where pockets of thermal inversion over urban and heavy industrial areas alternate with areas without thermal inversions alternate. In my recollection, the prevailing surface wind was tending to be northwest to southeast and the clouds were moving distinctly west to east or, perhaps, southwest to northeast, at the position I best recall, the Ohio River has a rather strong bend from flowing more or less south to flowing more or less west. There was a good deal of turbulence generated by the surface wind striking the wall of hills along the river bend. Along that bit of the river, that turbulence is a frequent occurrence that gives many a novice air pilot cause to change his underwear.

[@eyecomeinpeace2707]

You must witness lots of turkey vultures over the Ohio River Valley then right?

[@kitchentroll5868]

@@eyecomeinpeace2707 Around here, people generally call them "buzzards" or sometimes (rarely) "turkey buzzards". But, yes, there are a few that kite near where I live. You see them less these days, more often it is red-tailed hawk I see nesting where the turkey vultures used to nest.

[@eyecomeinpeace2707]

@@kitchentroll5868 Nice!

[@annierichardson5296]

I have seen this type of clouds many times, most often in the winter months but in warmer seasons as well. Ever since I was a kid I have called them "upside-down ocean" clouds. I wonder if the topography around here - interior northern New England - is especially conducive to their formation.

[@nathon1942]

It probably is more common around that area because here in Ohio and apparently Michigan, these aren’t super rare sights

[@samjane6267]

I live in New England and seen these alll the time too

[@dougfowler1368]

Thanks, that was so cool! Reminds me of when I was six or seven and wanted to be a weatherman because everything was so fascinating, we had some amazing meteorologists out of the Cleveland stations who really inspired kids like me. I didn't become one but I have had a lifelong love of space, nature, etc

[@Epileptick0]

I've been checking out the clouds above me my entire life. I've never noticed Asperitas clouds until the last 2 years. I see them about once a week now above my work..... H.A.R.P. comes to mind right away....

[@nanan8992]

I remember back in 2020 I spent a lot of time in our roof and thats the only time I really "observed" the sky. When I saw this formation for the first time I was inspired to use it and wrote an epic battle scene lol. Starting that day, if I remembered right, I've observed this formation almost daily- it usually appears at noon and stays till way pass moonrise. Some of my best sky photographs and footage features this formation. Glad this video was recommended to me.

[@tsukitaropotato]

i once saw these kinds of clouds when i was driving on the highway with my family, although they looked a lot more 2D. i still have pictures of it and i would love to know what kind of clouds they actually are, since ive only ever seen them once in my life

[@JamieQue_]

HOOLY SHTI

[@happymealburger4290]

wow

[@sooryboutdat]

The one time I saw these clouds form above my neighborhood was great and just stared at the sky for so long. It was like having a nice big blanket covering the sky.

[@Steve-0220]

Military/Commercial pilot for 30+ years &20,000+ flight time I don’t think I ever saw any of these clouds. Mammatus often.

[@TristanVash38]

Have an amazing day!

[@bluebaum2.7.16]

What I find fascinating is that I had Clouds as Topic in 5th/6th Grade (Germany) in Geography Class and that was in 2015/16 so that means that I didn't learn about these Clouds because they weren't discovered yet. Which is Crazy

[@cobbington773]

“Nature may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” That’s a really clever line

[@JamieQue_]

So early it says 1 view

[@ali-k643]

1st

[@ali-k643]

oops 3rd

[@joegage6171]

I seen clouds that looked just like upside down water a few weeks ago. It almost made you dizzy feeling looking at it, it was pretty awesome.

[@imalvl10paladin]

I've seen this multiple times in my life and have always wondered why I didn't learn about it in school. Cool vid ty