The Peconic Puffin

This should cause Peconic Jeff to bug out.  Wave clouds…hell yeah!  Spotted on Facebook in a post by Ely, this image was taken in Alabama a day or two ago.  From the Cloud Appreciation Society:  "The breaking waveforms of Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are the result of shearing winds up at cloud level. A particular type of turbulence can develop in a layer of cirrus cloud, which happens to form below an inversion …between air currents of differing speeds and/or directions. Sea waves break as their bases are slowed down upon reaching shallow water and their crests surge ahead. Cloud waves break in the same way: when their crests are pushed ahead of their troughs by the difference in air currents"

(Top photo attributed to Skip Walker.  Bottom photo courtesy Cloud Appreciation Society/Brian Wong)