Whenever there’s severe weather in the area, I keep my eye out for mammatus clouds. I’ve seen more in the last few days than I’ve seen in my entire life.
On Friday a fast-moving storm skirted just to the southwest of Madison and pummeled some areas with tennis-ball-sized hail. The biggest mammatus clouds I’ve ever seen floated over our house. They filled the entire sky and within 5 minutes they were gone. It was a magnificent sight but hard to capture with a camera because it was so cloudy.
Last night an even bigger complex of tornadic thunderstorms took the same path and again missed Madison. The storm moved very slowly over a number of hours. At suppertime I spotted some tiny mammatus clouds passing to our north.
Three hours later new ones formed and were illuminated by the setting sun:
