Strange skies--

Strange skies--

1.      Line of houses under a thunderstorm with rainbow.

2.      Sun setting behind cumulus clouds.

3.      Cloud to cloud to ground lightning.

4.      Mammatus "clouds boiling upside down", on top of a flanking down draft.

Mammatus, also known as mammatocumulus (meaning "mammary cloud"),

is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging

underneath the base of a cloud.

5.      Massive single cell severe tornadic thunderstorm.

6.  Downdraft of precipitation from a young cumulonimbus cloud.

The initial downrush happening as the rest of cell is still forming and building.

7.      Leading edge of a flanking downdraft of a thunderstorm.

8.      Another great mammatus – extremely unstable air.

9.      Sunset on dissipating thunderstorms.

Could have two cells rotating in opposite directions, rare, but meteorologically possible, like two egg beaters.

10.  Sunset dissipating thunderstorm.

12.  Somewhat disorganized or dissipating thunderstorm.

Most of it already downward collapsed with the rain shield being dominant.

13.  Single cell thunderstorm with cloud to ground and cloud to cloud lightning,

some being imbedded inside the cells.

14.  Tornadic vortex w/lightning, multi-layer outflow boundaries.

15.  Row of thunderstorms, and more beautiful cloud to cloud and cloud to ground lightning.

16.  Cloud to ground lightning in the rain shield in dissipating thunderstorms.

17.  Single cell "super cell thunderstorm with mammatus.

18.  More great cloud to cloud and cloud to ground lightning

(This looks like Crater Lake & Wizard Island in Oregon .)

19.  Tower cumulus building into a thunderstorm.

20.  A tornado funnel near the ground..

Probably already on the ground, but not enough moisture or debris/dirt to see it on the ground.  Surface dirt starting the kick up.

21.  Circular outflow boundaries with storm cell rotation.

22.  Lowering wall cloud from mature thunderstorm.

24.  A large tornado on the ground.

Who but God and Mother Nature could create such beauty?