The World Meteorological Organization has officially recognized the rare type of clouds associated with Doomsday by many and included them in the new edition of the International Cloud Atlas. Writes about this The Verge.
It is reported that "apocalyptic clouds", taking on frightening outlines, have long frightened many people due to associations with the Day of Judgment or an invasion of aliens.
Until recently, these clouds were hardly studied and described by meteorologists. Nine years ago, the founder of the Society of Cloud Lovers, the English writer Gavin Praetor-Pinney, became seriously interested in them, who proposed to call them undulatus asperatus (lat. "Wavy-bumpy") and include them in the general classification.
He managed to achieve his only after eight years. In the new edition of the International Cloud Atlas, the clouds are called asperitas (Latin for "roughness").
As the newspaper notes, a new type of clouds was introduced into the International Cloud Atlas more than half a century ago.
