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A lenticular cloud covers the summit crater of Mayon Volcano, Philippines.. As air travels along the surface of the Earth, obstructions are often encountered, including natural features, such as mountains or hills, and artificial structures, such as buildings and other constructions, which disrupt the flow of air into "eddies", or areas of turbulence.
Clouds of the genus stratus form in low horizontal layers having a ragged or uniform base. Ragged stratus often forms in precipitation while more uniform stratus forms in maritime or other moist stable air mass conditions. The latter often produces drizzle.
If the air is generally stable, nothing more than lenticular cap clouds form. However, if the air becomes sufficiently moist and unstable, orographic showers or thunderstorms may appear. [21] Clouds formed by any of these lifting agents are initially seen in the troposphere where these agents are most active.
The Met Office said lenticular clouds combined with the sunrise to create the stunning effect. The clouds tend to form "when air blows across a mountain range in certain circumstances" and when ...
Lenticular clouds Northern California photographer Robert Renick took this photo of a lenticular cloud over Mt. Shasta in Northern California during a wet winter on Jan. 22, 2023.
This species of cirrocumulus can often be quite elongated and normally has very distinguished boundaries. Cirrocumulus lenticularis forms when stable air is forced upward; this is usually due to orographic features, but can occur away from mountains as well. [2] Irisation can occasionally occur with these clouds. [3]
When wind is forced to flow up and over the mountains, it creates a wave in the atmosphere and as the air cools at the crest of the wave, the water vapor it contains condenses into such clouds.
The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.