A few days ago, Rick Geiss, an American from Alabama, shared with his friends a photograph of a very strange cloud he took on the Gulf Shores beach.
Rick's friends turned out to be meteorologists and posted the photo on their social networks, after which the strange cloud began to spread on the Internet like a virus and even hit the front pages of The Washington Post.
All commentators of the photo, having one or another relation to the study of the atmosphere, called the phenomenon "incredible", even disputes began about the authenticity of the photo. However, computer graphics experts, attracted by CNN, assured the channel that this is not a photoshop, there are no signs of editing the image.
After that, other experts joined the topic and vied with each other to offer their explanations. Jeff Halverson, Meteorologist:
“The photo shows a single, high convective cloud called cumulus. It is formed by a large central updraft (floating air plume). Most likely, the cloud has taken on a conical shape, as drier, colder air is drawn in and up along the edges of the updraft, while simultaneously evaporating moisture droplets from the edge of the cloud.
In support of his words, Jeff Halverson gives a picture from the textbook illustrating the formation of the so-called "mushroom cloud" at the final phase of the onset of the storm:
We, like many others, very diligently looked at the picture from the book, from which the respected Jeff Halverson and other meteorologists studied, but the illustration does not resemble a cone or pyramid much. Actually, if the cloud were the same as in the book, there would be no such excitement around it, such clouds would be observed regularly. However, it seems that this is happening for the first time.
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We cannot say with absolute certainty what could cause this cloud shape, but we believe that it is somehow connected with changes in the earth's magnetic field.
Like any magnet, the planet's magnetic field creates a grid of lines of force around it:
The water that forms the clouds has a small electrical charge. In addition, the atmosphere contains particles of metals, for example, aluminum, which get there from chemtrails. As a result, water droplets and aluminum dust begin to behave like steel filings around a magnet, forming these or those bizarre shapes.
So far, everything was fine with the magnetic field - the clouds were also normal, fully consistent with what is written about clouds in textbooks. But, as a result of the processes that have begun in the core of the Earth, the magnetic field changes its lines of force, generating air flows unusual for this or that locality and forming clouds that are not characteristic of this or that region. And, as you can see, sometimes these clouds take on a completely unusual shape.