This is real. When I was a weather observer for the Navy in the late 80's to early 90's this was taught in school and then I had the chance to observe it first hand while visiting my brother in Colorado. I seem to remember a supposed "UFO" picture somewhere that was also debunked by an explanation of this phenomena. 100% real... will do some research tomorrow to see if I can find some references... if someone else doesn't beat me to it, which I hope they will. But it is real...

A very good example of standing lenticular cloud formation. High winds aloft!

Beautiful.

I enjoy those lentilular clouds shaped liked beans... and those testicular clouds shaped like- well, beans. And what do they call them? Mammograndous or whatever? I do like big pillowy clouds. I see the little mushroom guys from the original Fantasia film in the thread pics. That's a weird movie

Second pic is Mt Fuji, yeah?

Harry Houdini: Yep, those would be mammatus clouds you're speaking of. Here's a picture I googled:

Yeah, the second pic is Mt Fuji. The physical explanation makes sense to me but maybe it can be proven by calculating the heights of these mountains with respect to sea level and the climate at the time of the photograph.

It would be a pretty amazing thing to see as most mountains I've gazed upon just have fuzzy clouds at their peak.

Here's a slightly less impressive but the same natural effect on Mt Fuji when the snow is melting during spring.

Link:

Sigh.

We don't get anything that pretty here. Only cool things we have are rocks: one shaped like a wave, one standing in the middle of the dessert all by itself and some silly rocks called the pinnacles that are just tall pillars.

Stupid rocks

That is bloody beautiful.

I live at the foot of a long-dormant volcano. Does that count as cool?

Hey Nettie, I've been to that stupid Wave Rock...there's a cave formation nearby as well, called the Hippo's yawn. (I went on a tour with rellies from the UK.)

These are real. Your pictures are really good examples of this effect and should be picked up as reference material.

I believe the pictures are real. This happens a lot in Pico Island, Azores. We say that "Pico has a hat" and it means that the weather will be bad the next day. I've never seen Pico with a "double hat", though. That sunrise picture is absurdly beautiful!

http://www.azores.dk/FPico.htm

http://www.dacostadesigns.com/azores/english.htm

These are real - lenticular orographic clouds. They're not rare either in mountainous areas: I've seen them several times in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, the Pyrenees and the Alps. The St Helens shot with the red from sunrise is beatifull though.

The photo may be real, and the clouds may be real, but the mountain shown is NOT St. Helens.

The second pic is Fuji... the first one is St. Helens I'm pretty sure. Check it's profile...

I knew a guy, once, a Corporal in the Army, who would have truly viewed sights like these, as the Power of Odin.

Here's the Mt. St. Helens web cam:
Http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

One-eyed Gods with Ravens rule

Why did I think that Thor was the leading Norse god? Aah...done my research...Thor was Odin's son, Odin dies, Thor is the most popular of the gods among humans...Norse myth not my forte.

Wonder what ancient man thought of these 20,000ish years ago - must have totally freaked them out. Would be interesting to know if they were seen as a good sign or a bad sign.

Wonder what ancient man thought of these 20,000ish years ago - must have totally freaked them out - JoBi

Probably wouldn't freak them out? Especially if they lived near the volcano at all times, some of them would've been making pretty clouds without anything more serious happening (look at Mt Vesuvius, or Krakatoa).

This Odin is not known in The Land Of My Birth, but the oldest of our people still speak of The Angry Mountain God Puka. This corrupt God will spew his red hot ejecta, and laugh as you run. They say that Puka has no limit to his discharges, a twisted sense of humor, and a great taste for vengance, much like the USA Bush. Even after having lived in his shadow, I am unafraid. Nor am I afraid of Puka. RRRrrrrrraoul

These clouds do like to form over volcanoes . . . Mount Ruapehu, the active volcanic skiing mountain of New Zealand, gets some lovely elongated ones in autumn and spring from western winds.

The clouds are real. We see them from time to time, here in the Pacific MW, but not over Mt St Helens. They are always over Mt Rainier. The first picture is that of Mt Rainier.

this is mad

The mountain with the red caps is most likely Mt. Rainier from an angle not usually photographed. Notice the snowy glacier at the top of the mountain? Mt. St. Helen's dome has not filled in yet and has no 'peak' to speak of, being mostly shallow in the dome building area.

Update: It is Mount Rainier photographed from the Olympia, Wa. area. The clouds shown are lenticular. Other examples can be found on the web. The clouds at sunrise are hard to beat for the "Wow" effect.

Terry
that is a super cool photo you googled. I have used it as my background on my 'puter. AWESOME ! I can see Mt. St Helens, Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams right here in the area where I live and see some asweome clouds often. I dont know their proper names. JUst the ones we give them !!

The second pic is Mt. Fuji
I'm currently stationed in Japan and have been to that lake at the bottom of Mt. Fuji. I'm also a native of the Azores where some people have mentioned Pico. Sorry but pico does not get nearly that much snow. If it gets any it will be on the peak only.
You can check my site that contains some photos of Pico with a similar "ring" cloud. Yes that picture looks a lot like Pico, but I can assure you it's a very nice picture of FUJI. When the smog is not too bad here in Japan I can see FUJI, it's only 25 KM.
Mario

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