I couldn't think of a better spot to start this -- and since this area is the "freak of nature" discussion, it seemed like the best fit!

I've noticed a LOT of lenticular clouds this year! The week in July when we had the tropical jet stream pouring into the PNW was especially prolific - I shot this GIGANTIC lenticular "landing" just north of Mount Hood, as seen from Lolo Pass Road:




Then I happened to be up at Timberline yesterday, and photographed a small lenticular cloud attempting to form for nearly four hours -- this is the view from the Salmon River headwaters:



Small, but scenic!

Okay... so that's the theme! Anyone have cool lenticular cloud images that you'd like to post...?

-Lenticular Tom

This one's pretty boring compared to Tom's dramatic ones... it's from the top of the Dalles Mountain Road in early May:

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adamschneider.net
www.gpsvisualizer.com

Just outside of Sunriver:

From Mirror Lake:

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-jeff
OregonLens.com

This is a terrible picture of a tiny cloud, but it was noteworthy because I didn't even know the mountain was there until I saw the cloud!

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What do you suppose is around that next bend?

From Helen Lake on Mt. Shasta, just starting to form...

 

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"It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds." -Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer) in Tombstone

Adams from Chinidere (Tomlike Mt in the foreground)

 

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Jeff - Site Admin

Someday you'll take me home to live forever....up on the mountain
S. Chapman

Not sure if these are lenticular or not... (they look too upside-down!)? I thought they were really   interesting, though! This was taken from just above Snowgrass Flats near Goat Rocks mid-July of this year.

There was a little one above Mt Hood this morning. Taken from the middle of Lost Lake:

This one above Mt. Hood was taken from the TDH Mt. trail:

These are a couple older ones from Mt. Rainier... both on the same day. the cloud kept growing and growing... I have some others later where it's like 3x the size of Mt. Rainier, but those aren't on-line.
-Jonathan

Here's an interesting link with lots of lenticular cloud pictures and other weather phenomena.

http://pic1.piczo.com/valuca/?g=25544746

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- Jim Sifferle
My hiking Galleries
The mountains are calling and I must go. -- John Muir

This one was just beginning to settle in over Mt Hood..

 

 

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Trailrunner

    This was taken Aug. 31st from Independence Pass in Mt. Saint Helens

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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
- Wendell Berry

how do these clouds form? ive actually never seen one before

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jamey pyles