Many of you sent photos of “weird”,wavy cloud formations like these: These “wavy” clouds are known in the meteorology world as asperitas, Latin for “roughness”, or it is a fitting descriptor of the clouds that develop in a turbulent environment. These clouds were previously known as “undulatus asperatus” before being formally recognized by the World Meteorological Organization as “asperitas” in the International Cloud Atlas. While “undulatus” are wavy in nature,they are classified as being more gentle in form. “Asperitas ” […]
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