Wave‑Like Clouds Over the Santa Cruz Mountains

On a recent evening in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the sky looked more like the bottom of a rough ocean than a familiar blue dome. Those rolling, wave‑like clouds are an atmospheric feature called asperitas, shaped by invisible gravity waves and wind shear, and sometimes painted with pastel colors by a phenomenon known as cloud iridescence. Asperitas is a relatively new… The post Wave‑Like Clouds…