Are these Mammatus real?

[nickgrillo]

Incredible mammatus clouds!

They don't look all-that real thou. Are these photoshopped? Whats everybodys opinion...

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004...s-mammatus.html
(take a look)

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

I've lost track how many times this has been brought up in various places...lol. They b real. They b ps'd as well, but only ps'd as in adjusted contrast/brightness, etc.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Heavy, heavy, heavy Photoshopping going on here. The cloud elements between photo #1 and #2 are very close (probably within 2 minutes of each other) but the contrast and balance are radically (absurdly) different. I have never seen anything remotely resembling #1 or #3 in the field.

Photo #2 is the only one that looks genuine and realistic. Photos #4 and #5 are probably genuine, too, but zoomed and framed to make the mammatus look extra big.

 

[Thomas Loades]

At the very least, photos 1 and 3 must have been darkened or had their contrast tinkered with in some way because they look nothing like the rest of the photos. But photo 2 looks normal enough. Since 4 and 5 are consistent with 2, they probably could be real too.

 

[mikedeason]

Having witnessed this event here in Grand Island, I can tell you that photo 2 is indeed the most representative. This was a mid to late afternoon event during which mammatus cover roughly between 2/3's and 3/4's of the sky for over two hours.

It was a photo opportunity that doesn't some around very often so naturally I didn't have my camera at work with me

Regards,

Mike

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Anyone know the date and time on it? I'll post a 1 km sat pic for the "top down" view. Assuming this was seen in Lincoln NE.

Tim

 

[mikedeason]

June 12, 2004 Tim.

Here is KGID's site on the event:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/gid/display.php?fn...4/mammatus.html

Regards,

Mike

 

[Tim Vasquez]

The very same storm from the weather photos cited above. Nice gravity waves.

[Broken External Image]:http://www.stormtrack.org/jun12.jpg

 

[Melissa Moon]

Real, but yeah, some of the color levels have been tweaked I'm sure!

 

[mikedeason]

A couple of representative shots of the even are at the GID website I posted above.

Regards,

Mike

 

[mikedeason]

BTW, here's a couple of pics I did manage to get of the mammatus display:

[Broken External Image]:http://webpages.charter.net/mikedeason/mam1.jpg
[Broken External Image]:http://webpages.charter.net/mikedeason/mam2.jpg

Regards,

Mike