A lot of New Yorkers don’t usually have any views of the sky or horizons.  We are surrounded by buildings and are always on the go, its kind of hard to even have the time to ’stop and smell the roses’ of some of nature’s marvels.  Recently on June 26,2009, New York City had an extraordinary looking cloud formation called Mammatus Clouds.  These amazing clouds look as if they were brought in from another planets atmosphere.

A little info about Mammatus clouds (a name derived from the Latin word for breast).  These clouds form from thunder clouds and have properties which are rarely seen.  They have a bobbley downward  protrusion that hold usually as little as 5 minutes and can rarely be seen lasting as long as an hour.  They are produced entirely from water or a mixture of ice and water, they form an average of about once a year and are seen dramatically when the sun is at a low angle.

If you haven’t seen anything like this, then keep one eye in the sky and the next time you might witness some of these other worldy cloud formations.