Evolution Of Some Weird Clouds

This probably doesn’t mean much, but I thought it looked cool, and I’m easily amused. And it’s my site, so I’ll post whatever I want.

At 11:52 we came out of the restaurant where we were having our normal Sunday morning breakfast and I saw these odd clouds. It was striking how the three in a row each had such sharply defined edges on the side facing us. Almost like lenticular clouds, but those tend to form over some sort of object (like a mountain) that’s sticking up high into the atmosphere. These were out beyond the dry river bed.

They caught my eye, looked weird, I took pictures.

Fifteen minutes after that, at 12:07, we had gotten to our grocery store and this whole cloud mass had shifted over toward the Sun and started to merge into one blob, but still with the sharp edge on the side closest to us. Plus there were some airliner contrails.

It still looked weird, I took more pictures.

Groceries obtained, as I was emptying the car and bringing the grocers in at 12:49, the cloudy mass had stretched out into a wide pair of arms that looked a bit like one of the later “Star Trek” ships, maybe the Enterprise-D or the Titan. There’s the saucer section and bridge right beneath the Sun, with the body and engine nacelles off in the distance and stretching off to the right…

I looked cool and weird. Guess what I did?

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