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  • Location: East Hull, East Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm and stormy.
  • Location: East Hull, East Yorkshire

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    Hi everyone

    This is my first post on the forum and im really enjoying reading all the topics and the place seems really friendly.

    I took this picture's early July 2010 and it reminds me off jellyfish and after some searching on the net i came across Altocumulus Castellanus, do you think the pictures above are Altocumulus Castellanus or something else.

    Cheers in advance.

    Del.

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  • Location: south London
  • Location: south London

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    Hi everyone

    This is my first post on the forum and im really enjoying reading all the topics and the place seems really friendly.

    I took this picture's early July 2010 and it reminds me off jellyfish and after some searching on the net i came across Altocumulus Castellanus, do you think the pictures above are Altocumulus Castellanus or something else.

    Cheers in advance.

    Del.

    nice pics mate...

    where did you take these

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  • Location: Sunderland
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Summer, Snowy winter and thunderstorms all year round!
  • Location: Sunderland

    The Jelly fish part of the cloud is called "virga"....as in Altocumulus Castellanus Virga, or Altocumulus Floccus with Virga

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    Posted
  • Location: North York Moors
  • Location: North York Moors

    Yes that's correct, usually described as "With trailing Virga"

    You are seeing a wintry shower at high altitude, usually the visible precipitation melts and evaporates with little if any reaching the ground.

    It always surprises me that quite so much snow can come out of such small clouds.

    Stitched panorama from July 2004.

    I think they are a 'summer' thing.

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  • Location: south London
  • Location: south London

    normaly a TS will form within a few hrs of these clouds...BUT WE live in the UK...where the english weather is un-predictable at times

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  • Location: Bexley (home), C London (work)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms
  • Location: Bexley (home), C London (work)

    I took this photo 4 hours before our first and only (thus far) thundery plume event of 2010 (early June)

    These do not exhibit virga and thus may not be classified "jellyfish" clouds in the strictest sense, but they are 'top heavy' and form in the same mid-level unstable conditions as AcCas and our other 'thunder precursor' friends :wallbash:

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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks

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    Hi everyone

    This is my first post on the forum and im really enjoying reading all the topics and the place seems really friendly.

    I took this picture's early July 2010 and it reminds me off jellyfish and after some searching on the net i came across Altocumulus Castellanus, do you think the pictures above are Altocumulus Castellanus or something else.

    Cheers in advance.

    Del.

    the photographs appear to be of fairly shallow Cumulus with virga trailing from them, not higher type unstable clouds?

    welcome to Net Wx

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  • Location: East Hull, East Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm and stormy.
  • Location: East Hull, East Yorkshire

    ThanX every one

    I took the shots in Hull,i saw the first one late in the afternoon 15th then the rest early morning on the 16th. Never seen this before but i did see something similar but it was upside down version off the jelly?

    Cheers Del.

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  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sunny , cold and snowy, thunderstorms
  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset

    Nice one Del

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