Lenticular Clouds

Photo by Mount Washington Observatory

These lens-shaped clouds are often mistaken for UFO’s because of their weird shape that seems to mandate a prior design. But like evolution, it is a process that has designed these clouds, not aliens!

The process is best described here:
(http://www.no-big-bang.com/process/lenticularcloud.html)

Simply, when clouds go over a mountain top, the mountains cause a pattern of up and down waves in the wind, with lenticular clouds forming at the peaks of these waves.

Often the clouds will stack in several layers.

Lenticular clouds are simply one more example of the beauty and complexity that can be the result from a simple process in nature.