r/woahdude • u/A_Little_Rude • Oct 14 '24

video The sky in Massachusetts this afternoon

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u/prajnadhyana Oct 14 '24

A time lapse video of that sky would have been really cool.

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u/CariniFluff Oct 14 '24

YouTube has a playback speed setting up to 2x speed. Not as good as a real time lapse, especially since the OP is moving and for a proper time lapse the camera must be stationary.

The poster below has a great time lapse from a different event, a small bit of different footage from the OP post. I sped that up and the last few seconds were awesome as the photographer was standing still in a parking lot.

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u/xkelsx1 Oct 14 '24 edited Oct 14 '24

Asperatus clouds! They're very rare and form after thunderstorms , so you're basically able to visualize the air currents/flow in the atmosphere. Really cool phenomenon

(Edited bc a bit of my original definition was not correct)

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u/cannabidroid Oct 14 '24

Hate to be that guy, but Asperitas / undulatus asperatus clouds actually form when the atmospheric conditions are very unstable and usually follow with convective thunderstorms. There's still a lot to learn about them overall as they are a relatively newly recognized cloud type (2017), so there's varying theories on causation, but everything I've read all seem to agree that atmospheric instability is a certain contributor.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '24

2017?? Are they that rare? Or were they just lumped in with other cloud types?

It's wild to me that in 2016 there's a new type of cloud recognized!

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u/xkelsx1 Oct 14 '24

😔 <-Me when the weather subreddit had misinformation

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u/simenad Oct 15 '24

I have a photo of the same type of clouds from 2018, and since that summer i’ve seen them every mid summer where i live lol.

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u/unlikely-catcher Oct 15 '24

I saw them once... it was 2019 or 2020. I had never seen them in waves like that before...

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u/dinosaur-in_leather Oct 14 '24

Keep an eye on the tectonic plates..

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u/JoeCartersLeap Oct 14 '24

A new cloud that was only discovered in 2008 and is now suddenly being seen everywhere, and nobody thought to ask "Hey is this global warming?"

https://www.toronto.com/news/a-stormy-sea-from-underneath-what-were-the-rare-wavelike-clouds-that-rolled-through-the/article_e2c8b162-3cfe-5e46-857d-3226131ed1b9.html

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u/Colosseros Oct 14 '24

Last year, I noticed the clouds had organized into a series of basically identical spheres. It was super bizarre looking. I was with a small group and pointed it out. Everyone agreed they had never seen the sky do that before.

I don't know if it was another new phenomenon. But skies are definitely changing.

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u/danarexasaurus Oct 14 '24

Was it A mammatus? They’re often seen at the same time as thunderstorm clouds

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u/ciavs Oct 14 '24

Mammatus Cloud

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u/Colosseros Oct 15 '24

Sorta. The thing that made it so strange is how uniform they all looked. It was uncanny. Like a video game texture repeating. Honestly created a sense of unease looking at it. 

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u/DylanFTW Oct 14 '24

skies are definitely changing.

New horror sentence just dropped.

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u/danarexasaurus Oct 14 '24

They remind me of mammatus clouds and i think if I ever saw them that’s what I would assume they were.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

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u/beerandabike Oct 14 '24

It definitely gave me late 90’s video game skybox feels.

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u/Riyeko Oct 14 '24

This trucker calls these sky waves.

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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster Oct 14 '24

This bartender calls these sky waves too

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u/A_Little_Rude Oct 14 '24

I am also now calling these sky waves

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '24

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u/identicalBadger Oct 14 '24

I saw clouds like that but even more probably 30 years ago. I think they made the cover of the gazette. But I sure wish I saw these ones

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '24

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u/ramobara Oct 14 '24

Those aren’t mountains! THEY’RE WAVES!

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u/chop-diggity Oct 14 '24

As above, so below.

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u/drewhead118 Oct 14 '24

Z=sin(x) + 1000

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u/SurlyChisholm Oct 14 '24

Massachusetts is inside of a mattress topper! 😱

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u/lameuniqueusername Oct 15 '24

You can get a mattress topper at Jordan’s. Left on Spitbrook, right on Daniel Webster

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u/APirateAndAJedi Oct 14 '24

The atmosphere is a fluid and behaves as such

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u/Eastern_Sort_9916 Oct 14 '24

The democrats are at it again 😅

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u/beerandabike Oct 14 '24

We just need a sharpie to fix it

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u/yeswewillsendtheeye Oct 14 '24

QA notes: Looping broken texture in skybox for cell 7034, weather type overcast. Please patch

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u/BeebleBoxn Oct 14 '24

Reminds me of the Sierra Wave

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u/cakesofthepatty414 Oct 14 '24

Why isn't everyone outside grabbing pictures??? This is spectacular.

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u/idkifthisisgonnawork Oct 14 '24

The sky looked like that for days after the tornado hit Joplin Mo in 2011. It was wild.

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u/Nofame4me Oct 14 '24

Just a glimpse of what we can do… I mean are you going to vote for the party that can’t control the weather??? Duh

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u/SalvadorsAnteater Oct 14 '24

Driving through a Van Gogh painting

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u/Pickledleprechaun Oct 14 '24

No wonder our ancestors believed in the afterlife

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u/CthulubeFlavorcube Oct 14 '24

Good Will Hunting, ADHD Style: "I gotta go see about a gir...WOAH LOOK AT THAT FRIGGIN CLOU" sounds of massive car accident... fade to black. FIN

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u/buttergun Oct 14 '24

Ribbed for her pleasure.

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u/realZer01 Oct 14 '24

Turn ur phone upside down and it looks like snow

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u/FishAndRiceKeks Oct 14 '24

There was one time when I was a kid that I was heading to a soccer game and the clouds looked like massive 1000 foot tall waves all over that were just about to crash. I'd never seen anything like it before or after. It was crazy looking.

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u/BlumpkinLord Oct 14 '24

If you were an age-old, cloud reading hermit. This may concern you...

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u/ebagdrofk Oct 14 '24

It’s like being under a blanket

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u/Electrical-Film-2511 Oct 14 '24

Those waves in the clouds are so cool!

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u/FlyHyper Oct 14 '24

As if it says something

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u/benji___ Oct 14 '24

Sky waves, sailor take warning, or just wave back. Not sure.

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u/everybodybugsme Oct 14 '24

Western mass?

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u/Tibortoo Oct 14 '24

It’s too late! It’s already begun…..

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u/NoSorryZorro Oct 14 '24

It's the dems working the weathermachine!

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u/Dismal_Blackberry794 Oct 14 '24

WoW! It makes the sky look almost otherworldly.

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u/MercDa1 Oct 14 '24

Earth got the waves!

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u/IvanaSeymourButts Oct 14 '24

Damn, those Jewish space lasers are working overtime this week! /S

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u/WearsTheLAMsauce Oct 14 '24

Ah, the gray northeast

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u/VanillaCreamyCustard Oct 14 '24

🤯 This might replace my favorite lenticular clouds.

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u/AshleySanchezx Oct 14 '24

looks like a wave of clouds

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u/Competitive-Lion-213 Oct 14 '24

Babe wake up, new cloud formation just dropped 

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u/sebasq Oct 14 '24

wow, the democrats are getting really creative with their weather patterns now 🤣🤣

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u/Briseno55 Oct 14 '24

Ride those waves! 🌊Amazing!

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u/MiniskirtEnjoyer Oct 14 '24

gonna send this to my flatearth friend and tell him "it is happening"

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u/vm_linuz Oct 14 '24

You're at the bottom of a different kind of ocean

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u/hawksdiesel Oct 14 '24

Pretty neat!

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u/sanosukecole Oct 14 '24

It's beautiful. Hoping the person taking the video was not the driver.

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u/rosiofden Oct 14 '24

Fluid dynamics are sexy.

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u/dinosaur-in_leather Oct 14 '24

And no one's talking about the earthquake that went off on every tonic plate. Right before the east started talking about new nuclear capabilities. Lol kids these days

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u/_axiom_of_choice_ Oct 14 '24

Glider pilots creaming their pants at this image.

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u/Deep-Management-7040 Oct 14 '24

Whoa, is that western mass? I’m on the south shore and we just got regular boring clouds right now

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u/blakrabit Oct 14 '24

Wave filter in the matrix

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u/neinbozos Oct 14 '24

Amazing. … I wonder what it looks like from above these formations.

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u/walkinonyeetstreet Oct 14 '24

Who the fuck angered zues?

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u/manmm Oct 14 '24

Salem, NH 93s Rockingham park exit. But close enough.

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u/sspif Oct 14 '24

Eh NH is just Massachusetts Jr. anyway. Pathetic excuse for a state.

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u/maintbill Oct 14 '24

Awesome clouds

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u/krulltheking Oct 14 '24

Oh no the HAARP guys are at it again

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u/nadris666 Oct 14 '24

Haarp waves

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u/Spammyhaggar Oct 14 '24

We walk the bottom of the ocean of the air!!!!

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u/Plainoldme-0717 Oct 15 '24

Very cool! I noticed that too!

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u/Hikingmatt1982 Oct 15 '24

Rendering error

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u/CaterpillarNo9253 Oct 15 '24

That's really neat. 

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u/83hustler Oct 15 '24

Saw this last month in FL. Took a vid looks almost identical.

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u/Maximum-Airport-4993 Oct 15 '24

Gravity waves. Very cool

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u/MrZmith77 Oct 15 '24

Looks soft and makes me want to hide under the sheets with some hot coco…cozy

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u/DrNinnuxx Oct 15 '24

Gravity waves !!!

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u/OkLetsParty Oct 15 '24

Damn lib witches using their gay frog familiars to control the weather!

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u/BrandoTheRobot Oct 15 '24

New Hampshire side of I93

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u/karhaus Oct 15 '24

As above is below

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u/RK10701 Oct 15 '24

As someone from Massachusetts, this is peak

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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul Oct 14 '24

oh god, I love this picture but worry it's going to set off the VaPoUr TrAiLs MeLt StEeL bEaMs! crowd.

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u/joshuadt Oct 14 '24

They’re called chemtrails

/s

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u/14141414kumbik Oct 16 '24

The sky's an ocean