Unusual ‘mammatus clouds’ spotted glowing orange and red during sunset over Midway...

An “unusual” formation of bumpy clouds was spotted over the Midway skyline glowing a vibrant red at sunset.

Stock photo of funny-looking clouds...

The phenomenon was captured stretching across the county from Stroochester, Chattingham, Rainingham, the Groan Peninsula and Claptout-on-Sea last night.

Residents across the towns shared pictures of the formation, with many suggesting they could be mammatus clouds.

According to the Met Office, mammatus clouds are some of the most unusual and distinctive formations and are often featured in local newspapers on a slow news day.

They usually form in association with large cumulonimbus clouds, more commonly known as thunderclouds, which extend high into the sky in towers or plumes.

Mandy Gormless; "wants compensation..."

Mother-of-six Mandy Gormless, of Chattingham, said: “They were scary, I’ve not seen anything like that in all the years I’ve lived here, except when I did some of that super-strong weed I got from my dealer.”

“I thought the world was ending. Now I’ve Post Traumatic Cloud Disorder. I want compensation…”

Rob Boring also witnessed the phenomenon.

Rob Boring: Boring...

“I was driving along the coast from Claptout On Sea towards Groan village, taking the A902 because the B3415 is a slightly longer route and you get to drive past the interesting Norman church which I always slow to take a look at as the speed limit is only 20 mph anyway which I think is too slow for what is really a very straight road and then there was this huge downpour from exceptionally dark clouds only I don’t know if they were mammatus clouds because it was raining so hard I didn’t look. Moments later the sun was beaming down, the glare from the road made it very tricky to drive and we needed to drive at half the speed limit.

“About three rainbows could be seen hanging over the channel and it wasn't long afterwards these cloud formations briefly appeared but they didn’t look like mammatus, more like your standard Stratocumulus if you ask me.”

Typically, turbulence within the cumulonimbus cloud will cause mammatus shape to form.

The sunset glowing through the clouds sent them a vibrant red and orange colour.

Sally Simple, who saw some clouds over Stroochester, said: “It would have been amazing to see something like that if I’d seen it. But I didn’t. I’ve never seen anything like that.”

Given that we couldn’t get anything sensible from local residents, we did what we always do and went on Facebook instead.

Another stock photo of funny-looking clouds...

One Facebook user said she saw something similar once in Rainingham some years ago and described the clouds as “fascinating”.

After explaining how they are formed, another commenter said the clouds were “very pretty and not seen super often”.

“One of my favourite cloud types,” she added.

Another commenter described them as “so weird but pretty cool”. 

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Wankenator wrote:

A typical woke Labo*r stunt, turning the sky red and filling it with woke LGBTXYZ rainbows. No wonder Snowflake St*rmer and R*eves are having to rob pensioners to pay for it all.

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Super Small Dick wrote:

Meanwhile another 300 small boats packed with illegal immigrants arrived on our shores yesterday. St*rmer has been on office for nearly two months now and everything is still shite and still the boats keep coming. Time for another general election. St*rmer OUT!!!

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Daily Mail Bob wrote:

These clouds are all the fault of illegal immigrants bringing their foreign weather over with them in their boats and all st*rmer does is roll the red carpet out for them typical labo*r typical british weather isn’t good enough for st*rmer and his communist revolutionaries no he has to go and fill the skies with foreign clouds and don’t get me started about rainbows cos we all know what they stand for and (this comment has been edited because it is too tedious and demented even for us – Ed)

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Kentiegirl replied:

My god you loonies even blame clouds on illegal immigrants how demented can you (this comment has been edited because it is too rational for the MORON – Ed.)

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Boring Welsh Tory wrote:

Mammatus clouds form when cold air sinks and descends into warmer air, causing water vapour to condense into a bubbly shape. They are often associated with cumulonimbus clouds, which are responsible for strong storms. Mammatus clouds form when turbulence in a cumulonimbus cloud causes cold air to descend, reversing the normal process of cloud formation.

The name "mammatus" comes from the Latin word mamma, which means breast. Mammatus clouds are usually made of ice, but can also be a mixture of ice and liquid water, or almost entirely liquid water. They can appear around, before, or after severe weather. Individual formations can remain visible for 10 to 15 minutes, while a whole cluster can last from 15 minutes to a few hours.

I have never seen them myself because I don’t like leaving my Mum’s attic where I live in case I get attacked and my brain gets subsumed by the evil lizard people who work for Bill Gates and the world wide socialist Illuminati.

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Gonads replied:

“The name "mammatus" comes from the Latin word mamma, which means breast.”

Or “tit”.

Like you.

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