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Video: That Rare Cloud That Had Us All Talking
May 18, 2009
Back on April 29, a rare cloud formation moved across North Escambia and South Alabama capturing the attention of many North Escambia residents. And now a series of photos from an area resident is giving us the opportunity to see the cloud in motion.
Forecasters at the NWS did not know exactly what to call the cloud formation, settling on calling it just an “arc cloud”. They say the cloud would have been formed by a rapid surge of warm moist air.
Matt Brook took a series of photos on Nokomis Road just off Highway 97 and put them together into a video. Click the video below to watch.
Reviewing high resolution visable satellite data, the weather service tells us that the cloud actually stretched from near Gulf Shores to Butler County, Alabama, for a brief period.
Pictured above: Walt Butler took this photo on Greenland Road in Davisville. Submitted photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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10 Responses to “Video: That Rare Cloud That Had Us All Talking”
We took pics with our cell phone last year of a cloud over our home that was shaped like a question mark, complete with the dot underneath, on two different occasions about a week apart. Unfortunately, the pics somehow got deleted, but it was really awesome and kind of spooky and spiritually moving all at the same time.
That was awesome…..I wish I could have seen it.
I live in Monroe County and this amazing cloud was visible that morning there also. My mom passed away that morning and of course, my family and I were thinking-how amazing? To see something so amazing just reminded me how awesome and amazing God is.
That cloud was so awesome, it looks like a mountain of snow. Thats truely something God made,
-Paeton-
AWESOMEEEEEEE!!!!
awesome!!! I’ve never seen anything like that!!
I was telling my sister about it and she ran outside and shrieked! What a cloud.
I saw the formation in Tuscaloosa. It was amazing driving into work. It looked as though the Smokey Mountains had relocated to Tuscaloosa County. By the way, I don’t remember the specific date, but this particular cloud formation appeard twice in Tuscaloosa in about a 2 week period.
COOL!
we saw this in bratt/walnut hill area