Altocumulus cloud
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Altocumulus is a middle-altitude cloud genus that belongs mainly to the stratocumuliform physical category, characterized by globular masses or rolls in layers or patches – the individual elements bei
Altocumulus cloud formation
Some altocumulus floccus clouds take on a golden tinge due to Rayleigh scattering in Norah Head, New South Wales.
Altocumulus perlucidus
Altocumulus lenticularis
Mackerel sky
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A mackerel sky consists of multiple rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds in an undulating, rippling pattern resembling fish scales and caused by high altitude atmospheric waves.
Altocumulus cloud
…for thousands of square miles. Extensive altocumulus formations, particularly if they take the form of undulatus, are often referred to as altocumulus mackerel sky. Species: Altocumulus has four species. The stratiformis species (Ac str) is composed of sheets or relatively flat patches of stratocumuliform cloud…
Altocumulus mackerel sky
Norwegian Mackerel displaying the skin pattern of a mackerel sky
Mackerel sky over Erlangen, Germany
Mackerel sky over Metung, Victoria, Australia