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Unique Cloud Formation Spotted Over Western Springs

During Friday morning's storm, undulatus asperatus clouds, a rare anomaly that some have championed as a previously unrecognized formation, billowed over the Village.

Springdale resident Peter Olson snapped the above shot at around 11:10 a.m. on Friday morning, looking north northwest from his home; his cousin Chris Velden, a weather scientist from Madison, Wisconsin, identified them as a rare formation called undulatus asperatus (or just plain asperatus.)

The name for the powerful-looking clouds was proposed only in 2009, striving to be the first new cloud type recognized by the World Meteorological Association's International Cloud Atlas since the 1950s. It translates as "rolling (undulating) waves."

Did you see these clouds today?

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