Cool Cloud Formation

[Jakemaster]

Show of hands: Who thought these were going to be GROUND based pictures?


Anyways, I luckily looked out the window just in time to see this really awesome cloud formation as we descended into Houston earlier this evening.  I quickly fumbled through my bag to get my camera and managed to snap 3 pretty good pictures.  





Comments welcome!

SIDE CHALLENGE!  Who can name the plane?  Should be REALLY easy...

[bok269]

Very cool.  ERJ?

[ThatOnePerson]

I'm gonna go with 737 just on the fact that Southwest rules Texas in commercial flights

[Mobius]

Cool, I always like air-to-cloud pictures.

[Ells_228]

Very cool shots, reminded me of the cloud that rolls in, in the Independence Day film

[ATI_7500]

DC-9//MD-8x

[Jakemaster]

Well Monkey, you may note that the 737 does not have Vortilions and I wasn't flying Southwest...

Bjorn: Nice try, but again, Vortilions...

And bok: You got it, but what model number?  

[ATI_7500]

ERJ-145?

[Rifleman]

Looks like the Morning Glory.....some sort of a roll cloud.........we'll let Kris inform us as he seems to be looking skyward lots, lately..... 8-)

[Roughrider]

Nice cloud shots, As far as what kind of plane , My guess is one with scratched up windows.  ;D

[Omag 2.0]

Looks like the Morning Glory.....some sort of a roll cloud.........we'll let Kris inform us as he seems to be looking skyward lots, lately..... 8-)

Hmm... what do you mean? I have no idea!  ;D

I'm going for a roll cloud... the other type that looks a bit like this one, is a shelf-cloud, but they preceed severe thunderstorms, so this should be a roll cloud...

[Jakemaster]

ERJ-145?

Yep

[bok269]

ERJ-145?

Beat you to it  ^^^