Help Identifying this Cloud

[MikeD]

Just a really quick identification please...takes 30 seconds to look at.

What type of cloud is this?

 

[David E. Young]

Just a really quick identification please...takes 30 seconds to look at.

What type of cloud is this?

Do you mean the very slender serpentine thread from the upper left down into the foreground cloud? At first I thought that it was a rain streak on the windshield, but I presume that from your point of view it is real. I would think that it is a true vortex, not so much tornadic but rather similar to a fair weather vortex that is occasionally seen dropping down for a cumulus cloud.

 

[MikeD]

Do you mean the very slender serpentine thread from the upper left down into the foreground cloud? At first I thought that it was a rain streak on the windshield, but I presume that from your point of view it is real. I would think that it is a true vortex, not so much tornadic but rather similar to a fair weather vortex that is occasionally seen dropping down for a cumulus cloud.

Yep, the one extending from outside the picture. I wanted confirmation but it seems too twisty to be a vortex I think.

Anyway, I haven’t seen clouds cluster like that at the center of the picture in mid November.

 

[Devin Pitts]

Pretty sure that's a water streak on the window.

 

[David E. Young]

Pretty sure that's a water streak on the window.

I take it that you saw this and confirmed that it was not a water streak by looking at it from different angles. If it is something that you noticed after you made the photo, then yes, I would consider that this is just an artifact of a water streak or something else close up. Please confirm to us that this cloud was actually there in the sky.