Awe-inspiring photo.

There's nothing to see here, it's just a UFO. Move along please.

Fucking cool photo!

Gorgeous photo, but what's your point? Cumulonimbus can be found everywhere in the world on any day, except maybe Antarctica. Or is this just a pleasant new blog series for the weather geeks among us?

This photo actually shows the initial stages in the generation of a Charles Mudede post.

We get them in Seattle sometimes too, you know.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/veo/1115914…

It looks organic, like a fungus. What a complex planet we live on.

Where did you get 'column rain'? Cumulus is "pile" or "mass", and nimbus is "cloud".

@8: That's quoted directly from the NASA site: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegall…

Thanks, Grant. NASA's horribly wrong on this one, though. Anything meaning rain would come from "pluvia" or "imber", with the first being more likely. I can see how they might mistakenly attribute "cumulo"(mass, pile), with "columna"(column), though.

That said, amazing photo. Thanks for letting a bored linguist use his degree.

@5: LOLOLOL!! Fnarf ftw!!

How about a direct link?

Oh well, here it is: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegall…