Surfer's Clouds
 

Cool pics of clouds in Alabama that look like ocean waves fit for surfers.

http://news.yahoo.com/giant-tsunami-...192102289.html

Thats cool. I always like seeing odd things like that in nature. Especially when you get to experience them first hand.

I remember once when i was 16 there was a lightning storm in the middle of the night. It was the kind that shoots across the clouds, like horizontally (only way i can explain it), not the kind that strikes the ground. The cool thing was the lightning was constant. It was like someone flipped a swithch in the sky and a huge flourescent bulb came on. It was pretty much daytime in the middle of the night. We even played catch in the middle of the streets with no problem. The street lights all turned off and everything because it was so light outside.

Very cool pics!

Never seen anything like that in person.

I did have a 'right place, right time' weather event once. I was at the beach at Point Reyes, California. It was damp and the wind was coming off the ocean. About 5' off the ground a cone of foggy mist was being formed, and just streaming up the bluffs and on to the land. You could stick your hand at the point the fog was starting, and it was like a bank of fog was coming out of your hand. It kept making fog out of thin air from the same point for as long as we watched it, like 20 minutes.

Beua - maybe you were witnessing an Aurora Borealis or northern lights. I saw it once, in the East San Francisco Bay area. It was not bright as daylight, but lit the night sky with a brilliant red color, that ebbed and fowed. It lasted at least the full 45 minute drive I was making. It was extremely cool, would love to see that again.

That's pretty awesome, I'd love to see that kind of stuff first-hand.