Town mystified by strange eerie cloud

[darkbreed]

From http://dark-truth.blogspot.com/2008/10/tow...ge-nuclear.html

The town of Trondheim in Norway were bedazzled when a huge mushroom shaped cloud appeared over a mountain nearby, which had the striking resemblance of the cloud formation from a nuclear blast.

Retired Professor of physics, Dr Løkberg, witnessed the odd cloud and took some photos of it:

"It started to float slowly towards the mountain where it stopped up and turned into a real huge mushroom shaped cloud. I ran to grab my camera and shot several photos of it. It looked like terrible things were happening over there, but the cloud slowly dissolved and disappeared." Løkberg said.

The cloud have eerie similarities to nuclear tests, but the town is still standing. Mushroom clouds are normally shaped when a powerful explosion creates a crater which focuses heat and airflow directly upwards. The "hat", or top of the mushroom cloud, is shaped by the upward stream as it stops.

"Really spectacular. It certainly looks like doom day is at hand." meteorologist Roar Hansen at Storm Weather Center jokingly says.

The meteorologist further explains that he believes the cause behind this strange phenomena might be due to the very unstable air masses above the town. He believes that an increase in temperature around 3000m above ground made the cloud flatten out at the top forming this peculiar mushroom cloud formation.

That is a pretty freaking looking cloud

Edited October 30, 2008 by darkbreed

[Hissie Sola]

Wow, cool cloud! Very impressive.

[Conspiracy]

boom

[ODIN-X]

Yea, If I saw that from my house I would be a little worried too....

[Oderint]

That's not even close to Tromsø, it's from my home town of Trondheim (1111 km from tromsø)

I thought about posting this myself when I saw it in the local newspaper

Here is the original article about it.

Edited October 29, 2008 by Oderint

[johnk81]

I have photographed something similar over my own home town , maybe not on this scale though , I really enjoy cloud structure. Great for photographers like myself.

[Torgo]

Can't large thunderheads, or indeed any structure with a big updraft, look like this if the conditions are JUUUUST right?

Nice find!

[darkbreed]

Oderint: Thanks for the notice, I have fixed the error. I quickly translated this from the Norwegian source and by some reason managed to turn Trondheim into Tromsø , not sure how I did that but at least now its corrected =)

Cheers

[Mattshark]

Can't large thunderheads, or indeed any structure with a big updraft, look like this if the conditions are JUUUUST right?

Nice find!

Yes they can.

[Space Commander Travis]

I just think that the person they quoted has the best name ever. "Really spectacular. It certainly looks like doom day is at hand." meteorologist Roar Hansen at Storm Weather Center jokingly says.

Edited October 30, 2008 by 747400