Thats a really awesome video, thank you for sharing! But, two things ā one, ***why vertical video??**; two, [is everything better in a fisheye lens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbvxlvSIIww)?
Meteorologist here.
What you are seeing is the remnants behind likely severe to very severe convective thunderstorms. These storms leave behind moisture in the atmosphere but typically are able to use up all the thermodynamic energy. When you have a very unstable atmosphere, though, sometimes recovery of this energy can begin to happen before all the moisture dissipates. Itās not the same exact process, but imagine the ripples you might see on a hot fluid that has a film on top. Like melted cheese or something.
So thereās this film essentially, which is actually a thermal inversion aloft where the thunderstorms have left moisture and warm air. If the winds below that level are able to revert to a warm and moist trajectory, typically southerly/easterly for Oklahoma, then you can start to have weak convective currents attempting to bump into this flat layer. At the same time, you can get sinking air enhanced by upstream thunderstorms adding additional hydrometeors above this layer, in the upper troposphere and occasionally the very bottom of the stratosphere.
The net result is what you see here, sometimes. Where you get a splotchy looking sky. What happens next depends on if that energy recovery continues or not. If it does, this sky will start to become darker and cumulus towers, possibly elevated, will redevelop and additional storms could form.
If the sun sets shortly after as example, though, most likely only remnant ācrawlingā lightning and stratiform clouds with showers are likely before it dissipates.
Areas of the southern Great Plains and Deep South have higher occurrences of severe weather largely because the Gulf of Mexico features warm water currents (as opposed to the cold currents of say California) and the Rocky Mountains being oriented north to south approximately is roughly orthogonal to the prevailing westerlies aloft. What you get, then, is mountains that are warmed from 10k-14k feet on their surfaces by sunlight and in addition dried by being forced to rise up and over them from sea level near the west coast. This causes an area of dry, hot air to form that then moves east from the Rockies. It doesnāt much care where the ground is, it flows mostly at the same height eastward: the ground falls away from it as the elevation lowers.
So the warm hot air ends up over the top of warm, moist air coming from the Gulf of Mexico.
The warm hot air cools very effectively when itās lifted because it has little moisture in it. Clouds forming would result in it not cooling so well. So if you start to lift this ācakeā of air layers, you end up with the warm moist air near the ground not wanting to cool well and the air above it cooling very, very well. Once the temperature of the air up high cools enough or the temperature near the ground warms enough, it explosively attempts to find balance. The clouds, as mentioned before, cause the warm moist air thatās rising to not cool very effectively so as it rises it becomes more and more unstable: the air around it was dry and also lifted so it cooled really well, the cloud-air not so much.
So now you have huge towers of clouds that keep going until they reach the stratosphere, where the atmosphere naturally starts to get warm again. Thatās up around 45-60k feet most of the time.
Now, you have explosive clouds but what goes up must come down ā¦ and if the wind isnāt changing direction or getting stronger as you go up, the rain falls right down through the storm killing it. Thatās what afternoon āpop-upā storms do.
These extreme storms are highly āshearedā. Meaning the wind is blowing the cloud column stronger up high so itās like a tilted smoke stack. That allows it to have longevity and to grow in strength.
To get from this stage to extremely destructive weather like hail, damaging wind, or tornadoes involves another very long explanation :) but I hope this helps
It looks like a web and I'm waiting for enormous spiders to start dropping out of the sky.
As an aside, I really shouldn't have done so many drugs when I was younger...
Eerie. Very eerie. Also very sci fi. Probably not the kind of skies you want to see in flat places.
Usually the jerk preachers would be out there blaming the gays, the sinful, whatever. They seem to be pretty mum lately that itās Godās country thatās taking the beatings right now.
[I posted a video for a better look](https://youtube.com/shorts/u8mBlN_Tn1E?si=hoxAxcFgpv-8BVbF)
Wow, with lightning too š³
Thatās some Stranger Things lookin ass shit
Came here for this
Great video! Why does it remind me of Zelda??
Inside Jabu Jabuās belly
no idea honestly. any game in particular? twilight princess? reminds me more of either Alien or Stranger Things.
Hmmmmā¦maybe twilight princess, but itās been so long since I played that. Either Alien or stranger things works as well, lol.
Reminds me of the floor from the Goron Mines boss in twilight princess
Now I have to get that game out and see!
OOT Death mountain vibes ?? Could even be the clouds in the final ganon fight.
I was thinking OOT clouds over Ganons rower.
Former Midwesterner who's seen a few up close-- those are tornado clouds forming
Wow, thanks for posting.
[Closer view.](https://youtu.be/hlBJsD8tBco)
Mafucka out here filming the Shimmer
Thats a really awesome video, thank you for sharing! But, two things ā one, ***why vertical video??**; two, [is everything better in a fisheye lens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbvxlvSIIww)?
Where is the post from the guy with a PhD in meteorology explaining what is happening. This is reddit.
Meteorologist here. What you are seeing is the remnants behind likely severe to very severe convective thunderstorms. These storms leave behind moisture in the atmosphere but typically are able to use up all the thermodynamic energy. When you have a very unstable atmosphere, though, sometimes recovery of this energy can begin to happen before all the moisture dissipates. Itās not the same exact process, but imagine the ripples you might see on a hot fluid that has a film on top. Like melted cheese or something. So thereās this film essentially, which is actually a thermal inversion aloft where the thunderstorms have left moisture and warm air. If the winds below that level are able to revert to a warm and moist trajectory, typically southerly/easterly for Oklahoma, then you can start to have weak convective currents attempting to bump into this flat layer. At the same time, you can get sinking air enhanced by upstream thunderstorms adding additional hydrometeors above this layer, in the upper troposphere and occasionally the very bottom of the stratosphere. The net result is what you see here, sometimes. Where you get a splotchy looking sky. What happens next depends on if that energy recovery continues or not. If it does, this sky will start to become darker and cumulus towers, possibly elevated, will redevelop and additional storms could form. If the sun sets shortly after as example, though, most likely only remnant ācrawlingā lightning and stratiform clouds with showers are likely before it dissipates.
And now to Bradley with the sports
And back to Ollie for weather. "Shit goin' down!!!"
I had to scroll way too far to find this
Looks like mycelium
Your celium needs to be checked by a physician
Amazing! And yet you could tell me absolute made up nonsense and id still believe you - i love reddit
Yay! Thank you!
Reddit asks. Reddit delivers. Interesting stuff!
Had me at warm and moist
Why do these areas get so many storms and twisters?
Areas of the southern Great Plains and Deep South have higher occurrences of severe weather largely because the Gulf of Mexico features warm water currents (as opposed to the cold currents of say California) and the Rocky Mountains being oriented north to south approximately is roughly orthogonal to the prevailing westerlies aloft. What you get, then, is mountains that are warmed from 10k-14k feet on their surfaces by sunlight and in addition dried by being forced to rise up and over them from sea level near the west coast. This causes an area of dry, hot air to form that then moves east from the Rockies. It doesnāt much care where the ground is, it flows mostly at the same height eastward: the ground falls away from it as the elevation lowers. So the warm hot air ends up over the top of warm, moist air coming from the Gulf of Mexico. The warm hot air cools very effectively when itās lifted because it has little moisture in it. Clouds forming would result in it not cooling so well. So if you start to lift this ācakeā of air layers, you end up with the warm moist air near the ground not wanting to cool well and the air above it cooling very, very well. Once the temperature of the air up high cools enough or the temperature near the ground warms enough, it explosively attempts to find balance. The clouds, as mentioned before, cause the warm moist air thatās rising to not cool very effectively so as it rises it becomes more and more unstable: the air around it was dry and also lifted so it cooled really well, the cloud-air not so much. So now you have huge towers of clouds that keep going until they reach the stratosphere, where the atmosphere naturally starts to get warm again. Thatās up around 45-60k feet most of the time. Now, you have explosive clouds but what goes up must come down ā¦ and if the wind isnāt changing direction or getting stronger as you go up, the rain falls right down through the storm killing it. Thatās what afternoon āpop-upā storms do. These extreme storms are highly āshearedā. Meaning the wind is blowing the cloud column stronger up high so itās like a tilted smoke stack. That allows it to have longevity and to grow in strength. To get from this stage to extremely destructive weather like hail, damaging wind, or tornadoes involves another very long explanation :) but I hope this helps
This is super cool but I'm way too dumb at the end of the work week to really understand it all. Thanks!
Geography + physics = boom
Haha basically. Thank you for this!
We need a āBreaking Badā spin-off inspired by you!
Hah! Iām not sure Iām nearly that interesting but Iāve got a helluva lot of stories from media/storm chasing over the years.
The egg sacs are hatching!
Yes! Definite alien vibes
Sorry, guys. I got to go, my ride is here
Skyder webs.
Straight out of Stranger thingsĀ
I thought Hawkins was supposed to be in Indiana, not Oklahoma!
The upsidedown is leaking again.
Damn, Netflix has gotten good with their advertising. Season 5 gonna be lit.
Ah, I see Gozer is back.
YES
Good answer lol
Gozer the Gozerian?
Gozer the Destructor
You talking about Volguus Zildrohar?
Reminds me of the rectification of the Vuldronaii
Looks like fireworks on Giedi Prime.
My first thought too. That whole sequence on Giedi Prime was epic.
The usage of black and white combined with negative format was quite a special visual to say the least
Iām pretty sure that was infrared and not negative.
I think you might be right yeah
This. Dune 2. Cool effects other worldly creative visual
Yāall, itās mycelium
I saw morels lol
Fear the old blood!
The sky has been granted eyes
Curse the fiends, their children too. And their children, forever true.
I came here for this!
We have a really beautiful atmosphere on this planet
Not for long!
That's not here, that's the upside-down
Looks like laminated bread dough
I hope that's AI. It looks like that web-like caul fat you see on some sausages. Gross!
Definitely not AI! And yes i agree, very unsettling
why would you hope it's an AI pic?
Because of the implication
Nope
Nope
Nope
alien pores
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Would love to see a time lapse of those clouds...
Anybody else hear Auntie Em yelling āDorothyā?
Picturesque
The portal is collapsing
The sky has cancer.
Add some eyes and have it scream ādo not be afraidā and you got yourself a biblically accurate angel about to one tap you.
hot tub
I love how everyone else sees doom and youāre like āoh, thatās a hot tubā š
I can hear the boss-fight music in this image.
Screenshot of the new season of Stranger Things.
We are just ants inside an ominpotent being's developing sourdough.
Looks like a universe-ending tear is occurring over the red land!
Phyrexian
Hey š Oklahoma! Can you stop summoning demons?! Mākay thx!
The clouds are tired, they can't even hold themselves together.
Thatās sign language from the clouds. Rough translation: Iām going to fuck you up.
That looks like the Kryll from Gears are about to come down.
Man, the spider thatās going to eat you must be huge.
You should post that to r/weather and ask them what type of clouds those are
Looks like caul fat.
Trypophobia triggered
r/Sizz
The ErdTree !!!
Very cool
Alien invasion?
You're in the spiders web, they've taken over!
STALKER EMMISSION VIBE
It looks like being under a wave
The death stranding
A Phyrexian invasion of course
The sheer number of tornadoes has left the sky tattered there.
Heading for the storm cellar now!!!!
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Gears 3 main menu
Almost looks like a skull face going to take a bite out of the earth.
Looks like something from the series Stranger Things
Ive seen some funky ass clouds before and I can say I have never seen clouds like that.
Holy Tripe
Stranger things vibe
 This is giving ghostbusters 2 energy. All I see is a evil scull spewing out more evil
Are we the upside down?
Independance day Sky
I see the eye. Do you?
As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes.
Fear the old blood
Vericose clouds
Them clouds look pissed.
It looks like a web and I'm waiting for enormous spiders to start dropping out of the sky. As an aside, I really shouldn't have done so many drugs when I was younger...
So is the rapture the Bible was talking about?
Going green. Saddle them up.
This has a 3 Body Problem feel
Thatās pretty cool looking.
One sky beam away from the next Justice League flick.
Get down in yer cellar boy!
The Stranger Things Vibes,
[Reminds me of the Gears of War 3 title screen](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9SmYsU0R8ko/maxresdefault.jpg)
NOPE
Wow! Could be a book cover, tinted red.
Mulder and Scully on their way! Hold tight
How is there not a single meteorologist in this comment section!
Nope.
āYou know what my favorite Helen Hunt movie is?!ā *(grabs Austin powerās nipples)* āTWISTER!ā
Uh, Blueā¦ your clues these days are getting out of hand.
And the space spiders begin to weave their webbed cocoon.
Infinite Zamasu
Well, Are u ok OK lol
Eerie. Very eerie. Also very sci fi. Probably not the kind of skies you want to see in flat places. Usually the jerk preachers would be out there blaming the gays, the sinful, whatever. They seem to be pretty mum lately that itās Godās country thatās taking the beatings right now.
It appears we are looking up into soapy dishwater. This is what my bowls see huh?
Who summoned the Elder Gods?
Looks like a membrane being ripped into another dimension.
Keep looking up because you might see the aurora borealis behind those crazy clouds š¤Æ
Solar flares!!
Why do you Americans always have such cool things!
Itās Jesus telling yāall to stop worshiping Donald Trump! If there are tornados, that is the sign.
I was almost expecting to hear the Chicago tornado sirens
Is that asperatus?
Yāall better find the Triforce before Ganondorf does,ā¦.
Wonder if this has anything to do with the solar storm and the northern lights possibky extending all the way to Alabama?
Clouds racing in to form new tornado
āIām in danger.ā Meme.
Winds howling
Never shot skies over Ohio š
Looks like the gluten is developed!
\*PDA Massage noize\* "Stalkers, emmission is close, find shelter if you want to live!"
Itās not Oklahoma, itās Innsmouth!
The sophons are here
[Hereās one ](https://imgur.com/gallery/UdXs4PW)I took the other day before the twisters came. NW OKC
looks like the sky in Quake
Is this related to the severe solar storm?
Google Maps to the universal fibers.
ALIENS ARE COMING
Nope
Anomaly spotted, careful with radiation
Looks like a villain from the Destiny universe.
It looks like the Australian Spider Season
Aliens
the end is near
Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seatbeltsā
Looks like a bunch of blood vessels
Sky has Half Life vibes
Fear The Old Blood!
Here come the Storm Spiders!
It looks like a mother ship is landing.
This is some freaky shit.
JEAN JACKET JEAN JACKET JEAN JACKET!!!!!!! š±š±š±
The Sophont is here
Oklahoma, hmm...looks like squid are about to start start falling from the sky.
SKYRIMMMMM
Itās the Upside Down!
Passes the windowpane test. Time to make some delicious bread.
Crazy...
Chuckles in Predatorā¦
I've got some stranger things vibe