What a beaut! 🏔️ Bright lenticular clouds hovered over Mount Shasta in Northern California on January 22, timelapse video shows. Footage taken by Robert Renick over the course of three hours shows the cloud formation slowly encircle the mountain’s summit as the sun set on Sunday evening. Mount Shasta contains five glaciers and is the second-highest volcano in the Cascade mountain range after Mount Rainier in Washington state. According to the National Weather Service, lenticular clouds "are ass

High above Mount Rainier, powerful winds shaped the air into a smooth, glowing lenticular cloud — a phenomenon that forms when moist air flows steadily over a mountain and condenses into layered rings. Though it may look otherworldly, this formation is a natural reminder of how Earth’s atmosphere sculpts light and cloud with precision and balance. All it takes is the right conditions — and a moment to look up. | The Celestial Forest

Here is a time lapse of the lenticular clouds from a few days ago! You can see the waves in the atmosphere generated by the presidential range and how far downwind of us the waves go. There were even some ice crystals forming in the clouds that created a light gray streak connecting each lenticular cloud. | Mount Washington Observatory

“Here's a time-lapse of the #lenticular cloud we captured looking west out of the David Skaggs Research Center this morning!” --US National Weather Service Denver/Boulder Colorado | Windy.com

Mount Rainier Lenticular Cloud Time Lapse | Washington Weather Chasers