'Tis the season for dramatic weather in the middle parts of the US, and as such, it's also the season for incredible time-lapse videos. If you thought we reached peak weather time-lapse just last week when we posted Chad Cowan's excellent Fractal, well, see what you think after watching Mike Oblinski's latest.
He captured unusual cloud formations called Undulatus Asperatus rolling across the plains of North Dakota at sunset. As always, we recommend going full screen and cranking the resolution up.
Weirdest cloud formation I've ever seen was one fall morning in 1977. It was a mackerel sky with absolutely even ridges from horizon to horizon. It looked artificial. Unfortunately, I was on my way to school and didn't have a camera handy.
Dear Jorginho, I suggest you shoot or crop these shots without the houses. Or shoot from a higer ground, It would add to the beauty and you may be able to sell them, since there are a few people/collectors who collect photos of clouds. I would also be courious as to why you didn't do it before???
I didn't like the shots a lot in the first place. Just a rushed jobs of these clouds coming in quickly. The houses give an indication of the size of these clouds so I disagree on cropping them out btw, just liek I would never do such a thing with, say, aurora. Thanks for your tips though!
I live in The Netherlands....what higher ground? ;-)
Gets really trippy by the end... At first it just looks like weird clouds, then an alien mist, but that final shot almost makes it look like it's underwater, amazeballs. Didn't mind the soundtrack at all myself.
Your correction made me Google it, so thanks! Pretty interesting, tho Wikipedia has the two terms as two distinct kinds of clouds (I guess there's hybrids?)... They also say this about Asperitas:
" Added to the International Cloud Atlas in March of 2017, it is the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951.[2] The name translates approximately as "roughness".[3] "
3 months ago they weren't even officially a thing! :P I'm joking of course, didn't even know there was such a thing as a Cloud Atlas.
Undulatus Asperatus was the unofficial name until the clouds were recognised as in a group of their own (indeed) recently. I have seen them each year, so rare on one hand but not too rare on the other.
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