Taken 21 minutes after a wide-angle shot of a lenticular cloud crowning Mt. Rainier, this one shows a closeup of the right (east) side of the cloud, which had been rising slowly. As it climbed, the windy cloud left a deposit of rime ice, visible on the rocky crags high up the mountain’s southeast flank.
1 SSW Paradise WA (18 Jul 11) Looking NNW
46.7736, -121.7433Lenticular Depositing Rime
Taken 21 minutes after a wide-angle shot of a lenticular cloud crowning Mt. Rainier, this one shows a closeup of the right (east) side of the cloud, which had been rising slowly. As it climbed, the windy cloud left a deposit of rime ice, visible on the rocky crags high up the mountain’s southeast flank.
1 SSW Paradise WA (18 Jul 11) Looking NNW
46.7736, -121.7433