"Asperatus is a rare, newly recognized cloud formation, that was proposed in 2009 as the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951 to the International Cloud Atlas of the World Meteorological Organization. The name translates approximately as roughened or agitated waves."
http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2009/10/asperatus-new-cloud-type-discovered.html
Some beautiful pictures there; so gorgeous and surreal as to seem photoshopped. Nature's amazing, ne?
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