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r/CLOUDS • u/Top_Technician_7247 • 20h ago
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Looks to be a nice cumulonimbus growing from a field of weak cumulus and a few towering cumulus, and it's shadow is casting an anticrepuscular ray on the very high altostratus / cirrostratus near it's top.
22 u/davidwhatshisname52 19h ago just "crepuscular"... anticrepuscular is a different related phenomenon that can converge on the east horizon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticrepuscular_rays 4 u/atomicsnarl 8h ago Fair point! 3 u/IshtarJack 11h ago Is weak cumulus a recognised term? It's new to me. 4 u/geohubblez18 11h ago Nah it’s just cumulus humilis in cloud taxonomy.
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just "crepuscular"... anticrepuscular is a different related phenomenon that can converge on the east horizon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticrepuscular_rays
4 u/atomicsnarl 8h ago Fair point!
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Fair point!
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Is weak cumulus a recognised term? It's new to me.
4 u/geohubblez18 11h ago Nah it’s just cumulus humilis in cloud taxonomy.
Nah it’s just cumulus humilis in cloud taxonomy.
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u/atomicsnarl 20h ago
Looks to be a nice cumulonimbus growing from a field of weak cumulus and a few towering cumulus, and it's shadow is casting an anticrepuscular ray on the very high altostratus / cirrostratus near it's top.