Cool Rare Weather Event Turned The Grand Canyon Into A Sea Of Clouds (images) Dec11

[Tech_Dreamer]

Thought this was a cool thing to share>>

 

Image/news courtesy Buzz feed & National Park Service, Maci MacPherson

 

Regular Grand canyon View..

 

 

Rare even occurred on Thursday Dec. 11, 2014

 

okay the last one is an oldie, but cool nevertheless

 

 

How it happens/ed:

 

A cloud inversion occurs when a layer of warmer air above “caps” the cooler air below, essentially keeping it from rising.because fog that has been shrouding parts of northern Arizona accumulated in the Grand Canyon overnight. Without any wind to clear the fog out, it built up into a sea of clouds. Then as the sun rose and warmed the air overhead, the clouds were trapped. the weather event  only happens there about once every several years.

 

The offtopicness is strong with this one..

 

Leave a comment if you think it's cool...or just troll or whatever

[ERSCreeper]

Pretty damn cool

[MeltingPoint]

Wow that is spectacular! Makes me wanna jump onto the clouds

[ofr057]

pretty cool man

[XTankSlayerX]

This is awesome

[Tacitus]

This used to happen where my ex lives in Switzerland. She lives in a mountain village and there's a basin below with a lake and mountains on all sides, and sometimes clouds would create what locals called a "cloud lake" below that could last there for days. Was always really weird because it'd be so sunny above it, but below it was always cold and rainy

 

I'll try get some pictures off my phone later for you  guys

[Tacitus]

-snip-

 

Here's a few photos I took of the same thing occurring in Switzerland 

 

these photos were taken from either my GF's balcony or from just outside her house. All photos are from my phone, unfortunately.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Here's a few photos I took of the same thing occurring in Switzerland 

 

these photos were taken from either my GF's balcony or from just outside her house. All photos are from my phone, unfortunately.

still looks freaking cool, i could only imagine this beauty shot in a dslr or a 4k capable cell, You're very lucky i guess, must be a superb feel.. waking up early to see this quietly floating by with the fresh morning air to breath & that fresh morning dew chill on your skin instead of staring into a wallpaper..

[Trik'Stari]

Aaaaannnnddd.... wallpaper

[Sammael]

This used to happen where my ex lives in Switzerland. She lives in a mountain village and there's a basin below with a lake and mountains on all sides, and sometimes clouds would create what locals called a "cloud lake" below that could last there for days. Was always really weird because it'd be so sunny above it, but below it was always cold and rainy

 

I'll try get some pictures off my phone later for you  guys

 

 

something similar happens in a real life British town called Lower Uncton, though the original cause was different.

 

In the old world, a man by the name of Seamus McBundy insulted a fat female witch of great power, and she cursed his home town of lower uncton to dwell in darkness until the last of his male line was destroyed.

[AlexStriz]

Aaaaannnnddd.... wallpaper

 

I am joining you  ... Now, which car wallpaper to replace this with....

[linusforsell]

Really cool, would've loved to see that live!