Weird Clouds

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I always get a window seat on the plane just in case I see anything interesting out of the window. On a recent trip I saw this weird cloud formation. :oops: :$ Not sure where I was over Europe, but I don't think I was at the Alps yet, so this formation being so different, and so much larger to what was around around it was puzzling. :thinking:
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It looks very localized. Would love to know what was underneath causing it. :thinking:
 
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I agree it looks like a a thunderstorm could be on the way for somewhere; makes me think of the line following, "By the picking of my thumbs..."

Dave
 
redhed17 said:
It looks very localized. Would love to know what was underneath causing it. :thinking:
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Looks like it's also pulling from a high altitude cirrostratus layer (moisture). But it doesn't look very organized or frontal; so probably just a pop-up. My guess is all of that brown farmland; creates localized heating/thermals/updraft/turbulence.
 
As others have said - cumulonimbus/storm cloud. Caused by convection...heat rising from a relatively warmer area of land / sea beneath.

Not especially rare or unusual but certainly dramatic from above.
 
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