{"id":21260,"date":"2025-01-17T19:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bizarre-cloud-formation-seen-over-larne\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T19:31:58","slug":"bizarre-cloud-formation-seen-over-larne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bizarre-cloud-formation-seen-over-larne\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre cloud formation seen over Larne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">People along the Antrim coast woke up to unusual cloud formations on Friday, reminiscent of scenes from a science-fiction film.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Lenticular clouds combined with the morning sunrise to create these striking images, sent in by BBC weather watchers in Larne.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">One person described the view as being like a scene from the post-apocalyptic game and television series, Fallout.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">From the Latin word lenticularis meaning &#8220;lens-shaped&#8221;, lenticular clouds are some of the rarest clouds and are often mistaken for UFOs.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">They are formed near mountains or hills when the air is both stable and humid.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">As air is blown over the mountain or hill it produces a standing-wave pattern, and these clouds form in the crest of the waves.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">When illuminated by the rising or setting sun, lenticular clouds take on a unique reddish glow.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckg77kvege1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People along the Antrim coast woke up to unusual cloud formations on Friday, reminiscent of scenes from a science-fiction film. Lenticular clouds combined with the morning sunrise to create these striking images, sent in by BBC weather watchers in Larne. One person described the view as being like a scene from the post-apocalyptic game and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[8044,4693,8045,1618],"class_list":["post-21260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-bizarre","tag-cloud","tag-formation","tag-larne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21262,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260\/revisions\/21262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}