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Oct 22 2008

Wordless Wednesday

Posted at 3:11 pm under Pictures

A Japanese Air crew observed a strange set of clouds over the Sea of Okhotsk. This is a very rare type of cloud formation.

The clouds were observed last year from a Japan Coast Guard aircraft off the northeastern coast of Hokkaido.

The clouds floated just over the sea surface, stood over a half mile tall and stretched over 62 miles.

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Lynne (Who am I?)on 22 Oct 2008 at 4:35 pm 1

I wonder what causes such a unique cloud formation?

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Toni (Who am I?)on 22 Oct 2008 at 4:54 pm 2

That is awesome!!! Happy WW!

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o.d. (Who am I?)on 23 Oct 2008 at 3:20 am 3

this is defintely amazing! floating over the sea… very curious too now!

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Karen, author of "My Funny Dad, Harry" (Who am I?)on 23 Oct 2008 at 2:44 pm 4

Wow, how unusual! I never saw any cloud pattern like that before!

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Talen (Who am I?)on 23 Oct 2008 at 3:01 pm 5

Very beautiful kind of rows of clods growing on a cloud farm

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Mark (Who am I?)on 23 Oct 2008 at 3:06 pm 6

That is an amazing shot and shows how beautiful nature can be!
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Lux (Who am I?)on 24 Oct 2008 at 5:24 am 7

That is quite surreal!

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WindMill (Who am I?)on 24 Oct 2008 at 6:14 am 8

Indeed, this is unique. Seems like the clouds were jettisoned with an air stream moving for a long distance to have formed that shape.

Thanks for sharing that with us.

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Ty (Who am I?)on 24 Oct 2008 at 6:20 am 9

Very cool photo, it almost looks like the clouds themselves are waves. It would be interesting to know what caused this and if its a natural thing does it occur anywhere else?..

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Mouseclone (Who am I?)on 24 Oct 2008 at 3:40 pm 10

That is kewl. Nature still amazes us all, even with all of our technology.

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Diana (Who am I?)on 25 Oct 2008 at 1:08 am 11

This is a very unique cloud formation like waves on the shore. I wonder how it came about.

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SG Entrepreneur (Who am I?)on 25 Oct 2008 at 8:37 am 12

Is this for real? It looks really bizarre- and to be floating on top of the sea!

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