Credit & Copyright: Tim Thompson  
  
  
Explanation:
Are those UFOs near that mountain?    
  
No -- they are multilayered   
lenticular  
clouds.  
  
Moist air forced to flow upward  
around mountain tops  can create  
lenticular  
clouds.  
  
Water droplets condense from moist air cooled below the   
dew point, and   
clouds   
are opaque groups of water droplets.  
  
Waves in the air that would normally be seen  
horizontally can then be seen vertically, by the   
different levels where clouds form.    
  
On some days the city of   
Seattle,  
Washington,  
USA, is  
treated to an usual sky show when lenticular clouds form near   
Mt. Rainier,   
a large mountain that looms just under 100 kilometers southeast of the  
city.  
  
This image  
of a spectacular cluster of  
lenticular  
clouds was taken last December.  
  
   
  
  
  
  
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