Lenticular clouds? - NOT amateur radio

Returning home a few hours ago I spotted what seemed to be lenticular clouds below the normal rain clouds. Lenticular clouds are usually associated with mountains.

In the past I have seen them (Yorkshire Dales and Portugal), but never around here where even small hills are rare!

The photo I took hardly did justice to what I saw. If not lenticular clouds, they looked very similar. I am no cloud expert, so am happy to be told what they were. Weather was about 7 degrees C and dry.

New cloud type - NOT amateur radio

Apparently, a new, rare cloud type has been officially acknowledged in a cloud atlas.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39351843

Although I am not "into" clouds, I know some people are.

I do recall seeing lenticular clouds in the Yorkshire Dales some years ago.


The full version of the image on the LHS is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_cloud#/media/File:Lenticular_Cloud_over_Harold%27s_Cross_Dublin_Ireland_30-6-15.jpg

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_cloud

Lenticular (lee wave) clouds

The last few days I've been in the Yorkshire Dales area of the UK and was treated to a sight I'd not seen before - lenticular cloud formations over the tops of the higher hills in the Dales. These are sometimes called flying saucer clouds as this is just what they look like. These were all seen yesterday June 24th in the late morning. I only managed to photograph one (a poor example) as I was being driven and was unable to stop when the very best examples (really like flying saucers with nice sharp edges) were visible. A few hours later these had all disappeared. I expect these are quite common in areas like the Dales, but this was the first time I'd seen them.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_waves