| Flounder ( @ 2008-08-14 12:46:00 |
| Entry tags: | clouds, potd |
POTD: What is this weird little thingy dingy?

Credit Confession: I took these pictures with a cellphone the evening of Aug. 11 2008. Stop laughing! ;)
The pictures are pretty blurry and have not been modified at all. If anything, there was more color and contrast than you see here. The convection was pretty well defined. I'm curious about that curved 3-d tubular formation that looks almost like a funnel cloud. There was no rotation anywhere else that I could see -- just in that odd little formation near the middle of the picture.
This is the scene taken about a half hour later in the same Brooklyn neighborhood. I could not avoid the wire in the picture. We didn't get any rain or anything out of this, though I think mid-town Manhattan had .75" hail earlier that day.