Saw a weird and scary-looking cloud yesterday... (pics)

[Electrode]

Last evening I was outside looking at our exotic birds (a bunch of chickens, ducks, some phesants and peafowl) when I looked up and saw this rather nasty looking cloud. It was a long string that was rotating and distorting the clouds above it.

Pics, from north to west:
1 2 3

Anyone mind telling me what this thing was?

Also, here's a photoshopped to death wallpaper-suitable version of the first pic for your viewing pleasure.

 

[geno]

funky

 

[SWScorch]

Connection refused

 

[Armitage]

Maybe a roll cloud ... scroll down to it in this link

Here are some better links:

http://weathersavvy.com/Q-Shelf_Roll_Clouds1.html
http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/roll01.htm

 

[Eli]

Neat.

Reminds me of the nexus-ribbon thing in the Star Trek the next Generation movie.

 

[Schadenfroh]

horizontal tornado?

 

[leung324]

you need a faster hosting server
I have no patience

 

[SWScorch]

Is it just me or does this cloud look like one of the ceiling-hanging sucker things from half Life?

 

[Electrode]

I'm hosting it off of my own fileserver. If you can think of a better place I'd like to hear it.

 

Originally posted by: Electrode
I'm hosting it off of my own fileserver. If you can think of a better place I'd like to hear it.

Notfred's pichosting service, pics.bbzzdd.com, entity's service, any other place.

Looks to me like a wall cloud - a precursor to a tornado.

EDIT: I mean the cloud in the first pic - I don't know what that skinny little cloud is all about. Wall Cloud.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Electrode
I'm hosting it off of my own fileserver. If you can think of a better place I'd like to hear it.

There are like half a dozen free pic hosting sites for ATOT........

Besides, don't ISPs give you free space anymore? I get 60megs(total, 6 emails) with Comcast.

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Electrode
I'm hosting it off of my own fileserver. If you can think of a better place I'd like to hear it.

There are like half a dozen free pic hosting sites for ATOT........

Besides, don't ISPs give you free space anymore? I get 60megs(total, 6 emails) with Comcast.

Charter was supposed to give me 5 megs of space, but never did.

 

[Syringer]

Weren't there supposed to be weird clouds forming over the Northeast or something? Although MI is a little far it could be the case..

 

[Electrode]

up

 

[SWScorch]

down

sh!t!

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
Is it just me or does this cloud look like one of the ceiling-hanging sucker things from half Life?

lol, I see it too. We are such dorks

 

[BillGates]

It's the jet stream.

Haha, just kidding. Cool pic!

 

[bootymac]

You wage war with any of your neighbours recently?

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: bootymac
You wage war with any of your neighbours recently?

I can remember wasting many an afternoon playing that game...

 

one ring to rule them all
one ring to find them
one ring to bring them all
and in the darkness, bind them!

 

[rh71]

Which one of you turned the ocean upside down ?

 

[LordMorpheus]

its them aliens that I've been warning everyone about for the past 15 years. All hope is lost!

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
Is it just me or does this cloud look like one of the ceiling-hanging sucker things from half Life?

it does! omg!

 

[Harabecw]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
Is it just me or does this cloud look like one of the ceiling-hanging sucker things from half Life?

Woah. ya.