I veguely remember seeing a bunch of strang hamburger looking clouds in the sky one day. I've also heard others talk bout strange clouds like this.
Here's the only pic i could find...
what does everyone esle think?
http://www.2000milehike.com/images/week%20...amburger_fs.jpg

Google "lenticular cloud"

Here, try this link.

hmmm, i always associated them with ufo...just because i guess...
so it's just some strange natural occurance?

Yes, meteorological, not extra-terrestrial.
Sorry

[url=http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html/]
Here is an even better site for you.

Altocumulus Lenticularis, Rykster is correct here. It forms with the help of the 'wave' shapes of high-reaching mountains. This is a usual occurence in Mt. Shasta. It's beautiful, aside from the Mammatus that I've seen.

Although that, I've still seen some 'odd' so-to-speak Lenticularis cloud formations, those that resemble more to a gigantic Hindenburg cigar shape rather than the 'hat' design from this cloud. Still, it could be some other weather phenomena that we do not know yet, but to link it straight to the lenticulars is a lil....hasty I might say.

And badbadger, no it's not a strange natural occurence but rather thanks to the geographical features of the cloud's surroundings determined it. It's rare, but not strange just because we don't see them everyday with the other cumulus clouds.

When I see a car, even a strange car, I still immediately identify it as a car.

Even this one ?? (was caught on Google Earth)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car/

Must be a mountain nearby.

This is a lenticular formation, so-called because of their often lens-shaped appearance. They're formed by rising mountain waves of air. This picture of a lenticular cloud is rather benign, compared to some of the utterly awesome ones that have been formed over great mounbtains like Mount Ranier, etc....


Beautiful, but not unusual, really.

Yes. That is not a car. It is a water tower.