Weird sky yesterday in the PNW

[hellosailor]

Nah.
Freaky is from the old "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and Irwin Allen, and the sky literally being on fire.

Although, the simple relationship between dust devils and tornadoes DOES still bother me.

[a64pilot]

Originally Posted by belizesailor

Indeed a very unusual formation...looks like a good signal to go tie up somewhere snug!

Lenticulars by contrast tend for form in relatively clear skies over mountains.

Pic of lenticulars near Mt Everest Base Camp:

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They don’t move either, the air does of course but the cloud stays stationary. It does this because the perfect conditions to form a cloud stay in one spot so the cloud is forming and dissipating at the same time.
Again, going off of memory.
I’ll see if I can find a video, it’s strange looking.

[a64pilot]

Here is one

https://youtu.be/3P46yC6lma0

[IslandHopper]

IMO definitely Fallstreak clouds (Hole Punch Clouds).....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y052VIMvlxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG7VbwvpmrQ

[AKA-None]

Yeap definitely space ships

[Dave_S]

I have never seen anything like those before.

Not nearly as impressive but I did watch cloud forming in one spot then dissipating within 1/2 mile or so. I have seen that since but this was extreme, like watching a steam stack at a power station but someone had erased the stack. The cloud was just pouring out of one spot in the sky from clear air.

[a64pilot]

How about these guys.
I saw them in Tx. Just before the Mother’s day massacre in Ft Hood, where thunderstorms wrecked tens of millions of dollars of aircraft.
https://youtu.be/HywQ__lE23M

On edit, hundreds of Millions of dollars