Lenticular cloud is quite rare in nature and always, if there are people nearby, makes a huge impression on them. These are huge accumulations of water vapor of unusual shapes and colors. Sometimes the clouds look like an unidentified flying object, sometimes they look like the masses from the movie Solaris, and sometimes they are just funny and bizarre. Such clusters have several names: lenticular clouds, lenticular, discoid. Despite the abundance of names, scientists have not fully figured out the reasons for the appearance of these bizarre masses of water vapor. Only the circumstances under which this is possible are known. It is believed that a lenticular cloud can appear between two layers of air or on the crests of air waves. In addition, scientists know the conditions for their existence - they remain motionless, no matter how strong the wind is at the height where the cluster is located.
Causes of occurrence
Scientists suggest that the above-ground air flow, flowing around obstacles, forms formal air waves, in which the process of water vapor condensation occurs continuously. It reaches the "dew point" and evaporates again with descending air currents. Processhappens multiple times. Thus, a lenticular cloud appears. Usually it hangs at an altitude of up to 15 kilometers on the leeward side of mountain peaks or ridges and does not change its position throughout its existence. Conversely, the appearance of these clusters in the sky is evidence that the atmosphere has a high moisture content and strong horizontal air jets. As a rule, this is due to the approach of the atmospheric front. Masses appear in fine weather. This characterizes lenticular clouds. Photos show this.
The first hypothesis of the process of occurrence of discoid clouds
The electric charge of the planet Earth creates an electric field on the surface of an object. On elevations such as ridge crests, mountain peaks and cliffs, it increases almost 3 times. In addition, there are electromagnetic fields on the surface of the Earth, which arise either underground or in the ionosphere. The latter are associated with oscillations of electrons between the poles and have a frequency of 2 to 8 Hz. Such waves are heard by animals, for example, shortly before an earthquake. These fields, when passing through the rocks, generate sound waves, which form zones of low or high pressure. At the amplitude minimum, conditions arise for the condensation of water vapor. The lenticular cloud is a visualization of the process.
Second hypothesis of the origin of discoid clouds
An underground source of electromagnetic fields can be water that boils in the bowels of the earth. It maybe liquid in the vent of a volcano at great depths, reservoirs in faults or underground lakes. Cavitation processes generate sound waves in the rocks, which, in turn, form an electromagnetic field through the piezoelectric effect. If they fall on the surface of the earth in the zone of an electric field with high rates, then air ionization occurs. Under certain thermodynamic conditions, vapor condenses on charged particles, similar to processes in a cloud chamber. This is how a lenticular cloud is formed. In this case, it becomes clear why the discoid masses are immobile - the source of electromagnetic radiation cannot be moved by the wind.
The third hypothesis of the process of occurrence of discoid clouds
In the sky we observe various clouds. The types of clouds depend on the conditions of their formation. Lenticular masses can also appear from freezing water. The generation of an electromagnetic field during this process has been repeatedly recorded by scientists in the course of various experiments. This may be the freezing of water in the mouth of a volcano or on the slopes of mountains. The power of electromagnetic radiation is amplified, the amplitude of the frequency of its existence determines the number of layers in the lenticular cloud and the distance between them. In addition, the shape of discoid masses may depend on the rate of freezing of water or on a large temperature difference along the slopes of the mountain.
Amazing and mysterious lenticular clouds
In addition, many naturalists - amateurs and professionals - believe that the appearancelenticular masses is associated with geopathogenic and geoactive zones of the Earth. Moreover, the clouds can show the size of this area. Clusters are fixed in the zone of electromagnetic radiation coming out of the depths, so they do not budge. The lifetimes of lenticular clouds are different. Others live for an hour and then disappear. An unexpected incident was recorded in Kamchatka. In the upper reaches of the Bar-Burgazy River, a lenticular four-layer cloud existed for a day and a half, then it began to rotate, flattened and turned into a luminous ball, like ball lightning. Natural self-luminous formation with acceleration went up.
