Cloud ID?

[Jim Saueressig]

I shot this last spring because of the various odd cloud types in the picture.

The lenticular cloud was odd here but it's the others that I am more unsure of, are those lee waves of sorts? There was a longer line of them that was on either side of the capture.

 

[Charles Kuster]

They look like rotor clouds, but I am not sure about this. They do form on the lee side of mountains or hills and I am thinking that the hilly terrain south and southeast of Cottonwood Falls, KS (did you take this picture from near Burlington?) led to the formation of these cloud features. A diagram can be seen on page 407 of Atmospheric Science An Introductory Survey, by Wallace and Hobbs.

That is an odd occurrence so far removed from substantial mountains. Nice picture!

 

[Jim Saueressig]

Thanks Charles, I wouldn't think the Flint Hills would cause anything like that no higher than they are but again I thought either was odd here. Yes Burlington.