A singular type of clouds made an look over the skies of Ottawa on Sunday night.
The clouds, referred to as asperitas clouds, are identified for his or her distinctive formation that seem like rippling waves.
The cloud formation was proposed and identifed by the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2008.
The World Meteorological Group added the asperitas clouds to its Worldwide Cloud Atlas in 2015. It’s the newest cloud kind to be added to its atlas and the primary in additional than 50 years.
Its identify comes from the Latin phrase for “roughness.”
Its not precisely identified how the clouds are fashioned, however it’s theorized they’re more than likely created when pockets of sinking, cooler air work together with winds which might be altering path from the cloud high to the cloud base.
The outcome produces the wave-like look.
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With recordsdata from CTV Information Atlantic
