Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Clouds can be strange or odd, with texture that might remind you of grapes or upside-down bubbles. Often around thunderstorms, you might spot mammatus clouds. Mammatus comes from the Latin word mamma. Mammatus may come along with severe thunderstorms but they also are found with regular thunderstorms, and with other middle and high-level clouds. The pouches or globs of mammatus clouds don’t actually produce severe weather. They form when cloud water droplets or ice crystals sink into dry air, evaporate and cool, to make a downward bubble.
Meteorologist Alan Sealls
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Clouds can be strange or odd, with texture that might remind you of grapes or upside-down bubbles. Often around thunderstorms, you might spot mammatus clouds. Mammatus comes from the Latin word mamma. Mammatus may come along with severe thunderstorms but they also are found with regular thunderstorms, and with other middle and high-level clouds. The pouches or globs of mammatus clouds don’t actually produce severe weather. They form when cloud water droplets or ice crystals sink into dry air, evaporate and cool, to make a downward bubble.
Meteorologist Alan Sealls
Facebook: AlanSeallsWeather
Twitter: @AlanSealls
Instagram: @AlanSealls
Web: alansealls.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sealls
More educational science and weather videos for k-12 and even college level by subscription here weatherthings.com/TeacherVideos
