Talk:Mammatus cloud

message: I'm guessing the name Mammatus is an allusion to "mammary"?  If so, the article should say so (hopefully in a circumspect manner) :) -- Finlay McWalter 13:08, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: name

message: Vandalism at beginning of article:
"cumulonimbus clouds look like:pie,pie,pie,pie,pie,pie,pie,pie pie"
Went to edit this out of the article, but can't figure out where text is in the source as to delete it.  Me confused.
- KM, 5/11/08, 3:21am EST
Hi,
Made some changes based on Schultz et al 2006:
* took out colors that mammatus can take b/c that is highly dependent upon time of day, cloud type, surrounding weather, etc
* quantified time scales rather than saying "minutes to hours"
* took out "mammatus can only occur where cumulonumbus are present," because the most current definitions of mammatus suggest that this is not the case (Schultz et al 2006)
* took ou the environmental conditions that were listed b/c I mention them in the "formation mechanisms" section
* took out "an updraft then must occur, which shapes the mammatus into the pouch-like shape" b/c this is missing a lot of steps, which i explain in the formation section
* took out the bit on storms producing the shear, b/c they often form in highly sheared environments anyway, and the main threat would be strong up/downdrafts. 
--Leigh Jones University of Utah 19:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: changes to page

message: As I flipped through the article, I couldn't help but feel that there was an overload of images, most of which are not significantly different from one another apart from lighting and angle. I was thinking of removing "Image:Mammatus clouds over San Francisco.JPG". Could I have some feedback here? (Don't be afraid to point out my stupidity). IceUnshattered (talk) 23:15, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to be WP:BOLD and comment out a few due to the lack of input. IceUnshattered [ t ] 19:45, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many images?  

message: The text in question is "Detailed observations of the cloud have been meager and usually occur only by chance, since mammatus do not pose a meteorological threat to society[citation needed]." Citations being needed aside, I fail to see how whether mammatus clouds are a threat to society or not has any baring whatsoever on whether or not the clouds are only observed by chance. I mean, it seems that observations of cloud formations of unknown mechanism are already more or less a matter of chance to start with. If the mechanism is unknown, how can it be otherwise? Perhaps someone in the know could elaborate - in the article, since Wikipedia is not a forum - on why it being a threat to society has an effect on whether or not the clouds are observed by chance? 24.252.143.218 (talk) 16:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the meaning is that if they did pose a threat to society, there would be a more determined, systematic effort to study them (like tornado chasers, or the planes that fly through hurricanes).  -- Coneslayer (talk) 17:45, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm unsure of the logic of a statement in the article. 

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message: We teach pilots to avoid thunderstorms, cumulonimbus clouds, because of extremely high winds, vertical draft creating large hail, etc. 
In the statement "Due to the intensely sheared environment in which mammatus form, aviators are strongly cautioned to avoid cumulonimbus with mammatus," we are telling them more or less directly that it would be okay to fly into a cumulonimbus formation so long as it's not associated with mammatus clouds. This is not only unfounded but flat out dangerous and sending the wrong message. I understand that the author is trying to emphasize the danger associated with mammatus clouds, but that should not remove from the danger of cumulonimbus clouds in the first place. It's a little like telling a child not to put their head into a boiling pot of water because they may drown.
74.15.99.10 (talk) 22:19, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor Statement 

message: "In the United States, sky gazers may be most familiar with the very distinct and more common cumulonimbus mammatus."
Not a geographic region. Is this not true of sky gazers in Mexico and Canada? Is it the case for Hawaiians? DAVilla (talk) 04:08, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  political boundaries 

message: I was about the undertake standardising the usage of places underneath each gallery image so that it's city + country, or city + political subdivision + country, rather than city + political subdivision (no country). Putting this on my to-do unless someone wants to make the change soon! Dojo99 (talk) 22:59, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery captions