Marvellous mammatus clouds follow Saskatchewan storms

Wind, hail in Kindersley first, but then came spectacular red bubble clouds

Image | Mammatus clouds near Kindersley

Caption: A Twitter user with the handle @riderfanforever posted this image of the Kindersley storm aftermath Sunday night. (@riderfanforever/Twitter)

There was a relatively rare and beautiful aftermath to wicked storms in west-central Saskatchewan on Friday.
They're called mammatus clouds (also called mammatocumulus, mammary or bubble clouds).
While most clouds have wispy edges, mammatus lobes, usually only stable for a few minutes, form well-established boundaries that result in the dense, rounded shapes seen over Saskatchewan on July 3.
Shutter bugs in the Kindersley area were out in force Sunday night as the setting sun painted the bubble formations in red and purple.
Mammatus clouds at sunset was the capper to a weekend of wild weather that included golf-ball sized hail, high winds, at least one tornado.

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