{"id":6299,"date":"2016-03-04T22:19:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2016-03-04T22:19:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T03:19:07","slug":"what-are-lenticular-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/what-are-lenticular-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"What are lenticular clouds?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To end the work week, I thought you might enjoy a look at some clouds that are almost “out of this world”! \u00a0Lenticular clouds are named for their distinctive lens shape, which some people think make them look like flying saucers. \u00a0Lenticular clouds are formed by condensed water vapor in air that is flowing smoothly over obstacles like mountains. \u00a0They are most often seen in areas like the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, but from time to time we can see them here in the Southeast too, especially in areas with more bumps. \u00a0At sunset the clouds provide a spectacular display!<\/p>\n

You can read more about them at EarthSky.org here<\/a>. \u00a0And view many more pictures at the Cloud Appreciation Society<\/a> web site.<\/p>\n

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Source: Eberhard Weber, Cloud Appreciation Society<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To end the work week, I thought you might enjoy a look at some clouds that are almost “out of this world”! \u00a0Lenticular clouds are named for their distinctive lens shape, which some people think make them look like flying saucers. \u00a0Lenticular clouds are formed by condensed water vapor in air that is flowing smoothly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-interesting-weather-images","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}