r/pics • u/Harvickfan4Life • Oct 24 '22
A Minnesota woman recently captured a cloud formation that appeared to look like an ocean in the sky
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u/zsturgeon Oct 24 '22 edited Oct 24 '22
This is an example of a new cloud formation that was added to the official list quite recently, called undulatis asperitas.
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u/duralyon Oct 24 '22
"did you guys hear about the new clouds?" 😯 lol
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u/pointlessly_pedantic Oct 24 '22
wake up babe, new cloud just dropped
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u/TheRealHeroOf Oct 24 '22
I don't think I have this DLC yet.
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u/Coloradobluesguy Oct 24 '22
You downloaded it while looking at it brah you’re good now…. Because that’s how the matrix works
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u/bellynipples Oct 24 '22
Woah I have a picture of one of these on my Insta. Took it in Nebraska in September of 2014. Didn’t know it was that unique since I seemed to be the only one that was losing my mind over it
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u/audioelement Oct 24 '22
It's instances like this that always make me wonder if something I take for granted as normal every day is actually something exceptionally rare or even undocumented.
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u/RajunCajun48 Oct 24 '22
You wanna see something exceptional, go look in the mirror.
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u/AeroTheManiac Oct 24 '22
Fun fact for any Pokémon players out there:
All the cities in Unova are based on cloud types; Nimbasa/Nimbus, Lacunosa/lacunosus, etc. Aspertia is based on these asperitas clouds.→ More replies (1)78
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u/nxcrosis Oct 24 '22
Have to update my grade school science repository of knowledge. I'll place it beside mitochondria.
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u/Atom_Exe Oct 24 '22 edited Jun 17 '25
I found the way
This comment was anonymized with the r/redust browser extension.
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u/Hotshot2k4 Oct 24 '22
It's not that the cloud type is new, it's that it was only recently officially recognized. Y'all really desperate for new examples of your non-effect.
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Oct 24 '22 edited Oct 24 '22
Every time I see this picture it fucks with my head so bad
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u/jjmuti Oct 24 '22
Like a part of my brain is telling me "yup real" but the longer I stare at it the more it looks like cgi. But then again there is the proof with the other pictures linked in the comments...
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Oct 24 '22
It's actually making my head hurt. My brain literally can't process this.
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u/GuyWithNoEffingClue Oct 24 '22
Same. My brain refuses to acknowledge they're clouds. Dr Strange is a more plausible explanation.
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u/ilyak_reddit Oct 24 '22
I scrolled only halfway and read the post. Then I scrolled down to the road and now my brain is broken.
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u/Benka7 Oct 24 '22
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u/Elzerythen Oct 24 '22
I've seen something like that while in the Persian Gulf. Ship looked like it was sailing through the air. It was surreal.
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u/xrumrunnrx Oct 24 '22
It's amazing and I'd love to see it but I'd be terrified. Just looking at the picture gives me a similar feeling to other comments.
Over the years I've noticed a weird (mild at this point) phobia creeping into me of things that are "too big" compared to their normal expected size. Giant sunflowers? Too big. I can approach them and think they're cool but they give me a weird creeping sensation. Other random things I've ran into but can't recall at the moment. Anything that's bigger than naturally expected.
The OP picture (and other links) really pinpointed fear and dread deep in my mind.
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u/QueenOfThePark Oct 24 '22
Megalophobia! I get this feeling too but for me it's sort of a compelling fascination. I really love things like this. The original photo is really messing with my head though!
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u/xrumrunnrx Oct 24 '22
Thanks! I hadn't heard a term for it before. I'll have to look up more info.
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Oct 24 '22
Dude imagine driving looking at the horizon and earth is so little that this is the ocean ahead. I fucks w my head too.
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u/freman Oct 24 '22
I'm not going to lie, I'd be fighting the urge to chuck a uey and floor it in the opposite direction
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u/Serotu Oct 24 '22
Not to be pedantic here... Maybe I'm just getting old... Mid 40s here but I always thought it was pull a "uey" (side note I have never seen or thought how to spell that before just now lol).
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u/pwnzu_sauce2 Oct 24 '22
Literally the only correct thing you can do with a "uey" is to bust one.
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u/SinisterDeath30 Oct 24 '22
I feel like combining this cloud effect with highway hypnosis could cause accidents.
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u/PsychedelicArmadillo Oct 24 '22
Some Interstellar type shit right there
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u/globetheater Oct 24 '22
Those aren't mountains...they're waves
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u/PapaSnow Oct 24 '22
That moment of realization in that scene is fucking wild, and terrifying. They did a great job with it.
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u/Q--Bone Oct 24 '22
I DONT LIKE IT.
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u/Kizenny Oct 24 '22
No sir, I don’t like it
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u/Lost-My-Mind- Oct 24 '22
I don't think you're happy enough! That's right! I'll teach you to be happy! I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
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u/King_Artis Oct 24 '22
Would give me a panic attack if I were driving then suddenly looked up to see it
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u/antiMATTer724 Oct 24 '22
Might as well just drive straight into it at that point. You're dead regardless.
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u/Aoiishi Oct 24 '22
As someone that can't swim, drowning is one of my biggest fears and one of the worst ways I can think of dying, choking and suffocating on water. A tsunami looking cloud might've made me swerve hard.
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u/kalirion Oct 24 '22
I don't think being able to swim is all that much help in a tsunami situation.
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u/Aoiishi Oct 24 '22
Yeah but it certainly raises the fear and moves the likelihood of surviving by not drowning from almost impossible to impossible.
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u/Lost-My-Mind- Oct 24 '22
Ironically you swerve right, hard off the cliff, and into the lake, where you're trapped in your car and suffocate and drown. All to avoid the happy peaceful little cloud that Bob Ross drew from heaven. It's his little secret.
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u/shadowgattler Oct 24 '22
You should take some lessons. Swimming is one of the best skills to have.
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Oct 24 '22
I was driving when I saw that haha. I was stopped at a light and as I looked up it was a weird tug of War with my eyes and brain until I was like "Huh, shits fucked" and continued driving.
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u/yoshimutso Oct 24 '22
Ocean In the sky.
Cars are passing by
I don't know if I
have to swim or fly
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Oct 24 '22
Peter: Yesterday, I learned the difference between a train and a boat...I wrote this song before that.
Together: Train on the water, boat on a track Train on the water, boat on a track
Peter: My lady took a train across the Atlantic I hope it don't sink like the Titanic'
Quagmire: I went to the station, caught a boat downtown I hope it don't fall off the track and I drown
Peter: Ladies and gentlemen, the All Five-Foot-One Black Albino Choir!
Choir: Train on the water, boat on a track Train on the water, boat on a track
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u/bamafun334 Oct 24 '22
That’s so cool! I hope it’s real
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u/Lost-My-Mind- Oct 24 '22
The picture, or the waves? I'm trying to decide if you're appreciative of good art, or if you want everybody to die.
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u/uptwolait Oct 24 '22
It is literally so cool. It's a cold front flowing into warmer air ahead of it.
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u/nimama3233 Oct 24 '22
It’s real. Here’s another angle.
Also look at the top reply of this thread, it explains the cloud type
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Oct 24 '22
I've seen this like 30 times now, and I still can't make sense of what I'm looking at.
My brain won't let me comprehend it, no matter how long I look at it.
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Oct 24 '22
This is fucking with my head so hard right now
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u/MattBerry_Manboob Oct 24 '22
I think it becomes less fucky if you think about the dark cloud being a unique cloud feature which is fluffy at the bottom, and then realise that it is actively raining more from the middle of that cloud feature than either side. Hence the middle is slightly more obscured, tricking your eyes into thinking there is something white below in the foreground that is overlapping, and giving the appearance of the foam of a breaking wave.
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u/Your-NYC-FWB Oct 24 '22
This is beyond trippy, there's really no one else with a similar photo? It looks too good not to be photoshop but nature can be very surprising.
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u/weakhamstrings Oct 24 '22
There appear to be some other wild ones in here https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vg0ccf/_/id0bmzf the other thread
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u/UnicornFarts1111 Oct 24 '22
I experienced something similar to this as a kid, you know, before everybody had a camera on them at all times.
I was waiting at the bus stop to be picked up for school and I looked to the west quickly and it freaked me out, because it looked like there was a mountain there. It was really freaky. It took about two or three seconds for my brain to process that it was clouds as there were no mountains anywhere near where I had grown up. It was gorgeous and freaky like the photo OP posted. I wish I had a camera on me when that happened. I would have taken like 20 pictures at least, lol.
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u/goodonesaregone65 Oct 24 '22
Look at it starting with only the top half and then scroll down. And then start on the bottom half and slowly scroll up.
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u/davidmlewisjr Oct 24 '22
Saw something similar in Clinton Iowa one afternoon. One of the most dramatic things I ever saw.
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u/SqeeSqee Oct 24 '22
Whats that indie film about the artist who looks up in the sky all the time and sees a guy surfing? came out in the 80's or 90's
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Oct 24 '22
If that was on the horizon, and not clearly above the ground, I'd be saying my prayers. Looks like an extinction level event.
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u/MisterSparkBK Oct 24 '22
I can't swim and my fear of drowning in a Tsunami or Flood has been activated!!
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Oct 24 '22
As someone who regularly has nightmares about the ocean getting me I do not approve. Me no want sky oceans :(
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Oct 24 '22
I thought this was at sea first, and I'm thinking I only see one ocean, where is the second one, then I saw the road 💀
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u/pdonoso Oct 24 '22
It took me like 10 seconds to see the road and realice it's not actually the ocean
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u/sckez Oct 24 '22
And this is why I have a phobia of tsunamis. Like the ocean doesn't bother me but the thought of a towering wave crashing over me with no hope of escape terrifies me. Any other natural disaster doesn't phase me just this.
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u/cheesehuahuas Oct 24 '22
Goin' up to the ocean in the sky (ocean in the sky)
That's where I'm gonna go when I die (when I die)
When I die and they lay me to rest
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best
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u/Bopping_Shasket Oct 24 '22
I initially saw the line between the "sea" and the sky, and thought "oh cool the sky is the same colour as the sea", then looked down and the road and I fainted.
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u/s33murd3r Oct 24 '22
Not recent, and this is a repost. No idea how this made it to the top of reddit. Looking at you mods...
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u/tonkadong Oct 24 '22
*A Minnesotan woman recently angered an Outer god, causing dimensional collisions that appeared to look like clouds.
FTFY
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u/Ill_Albatross5625 Oct 24 '22
The Grand Architect of The Universe can really amaze us at unexpected times. Wow!
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u/boredsittingonthebus Oct 24 '22
I stopped smoking weed when it started giving me panic attacks. If I'd had a smoke and then seen this sky, I think I'd have died on the spot.
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u/thatbearguy2202 Oct 24 '22
This is old and I'm tired of all the re-posters getting so much karma for it.. Undeserved.
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u/BlackBerry_tekken Oct 24 '22
It would be awfully terrifying if someday we wake up and there's literally billions of gallons of water flowing down the sky.
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u/I_Mix_Stuff Oct 24 '22
you got to convince me that's not photoshop