I'm dreaming of a white... Thanksgiving...?!

Howdy Dew, folks!!! Once again, it's time for a Sky Watch "Friday" post! Please visit Klaus, Sandy, Ivar, Wren, Louise and Fishing Guy's SKY WATCH BLOG to participate in Sky Watch Fridays, which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! Dot, the mother of this fabulous blogging event, was really onto something when she brainstormed this baby!!! And last, but certainly not least to the "retired" Tom, the one who brought the concept to full bloom. It is so fascinating to see skies from all over the world!!! You should definitely climb aboard the SWF Express! For this week's Sky Watch post, I am going to share one of the mammatus cloud shots that I took last week when God blessed me with the amazing spectacle.mammatus clouds are my all time favorite cloud structure!

Mammatus (also known as mammatocumulus, meaning "bumpy clouds") is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. The name "mammatus" is derived from the Latin mamma (breast), due to the resemblance between the shape of these clouds and human female breasts. Mammatus are most often associated with the anvil cloud that extends from a cumulonimbus, but may also be found under altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds, as well as contrails and volcanic ash clouds. When occurring in cumulonimbus, mammatus are often indicative of a particularly strong storm or maybe even a tornadic storm.

I love their amazing uniqueness! The lobe-shaped under belly of the clouds offer an amazingly distinct ceiling to the sky, and I was blessed to have a full sky of them during SUNRISE! God truly is an AMAZING artist with PERFECT timing!

Aside from that, the big story is the unseasonably COLD weather that has embedded itself in the southeast! The mercury has dipped. The temperatures have plunged, and the Dewdrop is NOT HAPPY about it. Due to my geographical misplacement, most of the severe weather completely misses me or presents itself in nasty heavily precipitated squall line events. The advantage of this unpleasant geographic placement is supposed to be the MILD fall weather. Where is that?! Where is the beautiful seasonable south Georgia fall weather that I have grown to know and love and really appreciate. I'll tell you where it is, it's in the Texas panhandle with Steve Miller, you doggone autumn hog! We are on day 3 of freezing temps, with low and high temperatures dipping down way below the average for this time of year! It feels more like our hardest part of winter, what we might expect in January or February, but this is certainly not our typical November weather. Though temperatures are expected to tease us today by climbing to near 70's, the bottom is about to fall out as the clipper system breezing by to our north bears down on a low pressure system with a trailing cold front, which will bring about another round of Jack Frost nipping at our noses. Gosh, I hate it when the whole map is blue and purple. I hope it doesn't s#@w! Is it spring yet?

Have a lovely day... try to stay warm.
~Dewdrop