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Mammatus clouds over central Texas

Captured on Memorial Day weekend 2015 Anne-Marie in Georgetown, Texas.  Visit her Facebook page:  Trees
Captured on Memorial Day weekend 2015 Anne Marie in Georgetown, Texas. Visit her Facebook page: Trees

In and around EarthSky’s hometown of Austin, Texas – and, in fact, up into Oklahoma and other parts of the central U.S. – there was some catastrophically bad weather over the Memorial Day weekend. Those who look skyward also noticed lots of mammatus clouds over a period of several days, like these clouds captured by Anne Marie in Georgetown, Texas. These ominous but beautiful clouds can appear around, before or after storms. Anne Marie appears to have caught them as the clouds were breaking up, just as the sun was going down. She wrote:

Mammatus clouds over Georgetown, Texas.

May 25, 2015.

These beautiful pearls formed at the end of a gritty day of weather across Central Texas.

Thank you, Anne Marie! Meanwhile, on the ground …

Central U.S. inundated with heavy rain

More photos: You’ve got to see these mammatus clouds

Posted 
May 27, 2015
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