6/25/2006: Rare cloud formation over Iowa

The clouds covered everywhere and roiled and boiled and moved like ocean waves. They said it looked like Independence Day, or massive sand dunes in the sky. I say... Iowa, you have been goatse'd by nature!

Local TV KCRG has a larger gallery of 16 great images of this phenomenon, which they say "looks like severe weather but isn't". Apparently these "wave clouds" (Wikipedia entry) are more commonly seen over mountainous areas, but somehow wound up getting created over flatlands in this case, which led to people getting all excited and taking pictures of the sky.

At that story link, check out the "Time Lapse of Wave Clouds" video - that's the most mind-boggling vision of what they were seeing, and really shows why they thought it was aliens.

It must have fairly widespread because several people have posted pictures of it on Wunderground the last few days.

End days!

This is your planet.

This is your planet on drugs.

See, we have more than corn and hog manure!! Cool stuff occasionally happens here too!

When you're learing to fly, you're taught all about mountain wave because it can kill you. If this is all it takes to convince Iowans that they're being invaded by aliens, then we now have the explanation for a lot of UFO reports. :-)

:p

Iowa got bored, so it did The Wave?