what is the lenticular clouds?

Answer 1

When there is wind blowing around a mountain range it will rise up a mountain and if humid enough, will carry moisture with it. After that warm air rose up the mountain, the moisture that was being carries by the warm air will condense into water droplets and form a cloud, while the once warm air cools down and sinks down the other side of the mountain. The appearance of a Lenticular cloud is very interesting, looking a lot like a lens or disc shaped white thing. They can be solo but more than one commonly form over windy mountains!

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Answer 2

When air is forced to rise over a mountain range, if the air is stable, it sinks back down on the other side. Cloud forms in the rising air and evaporates in the descending air. The cloud thus formed sits over the mountain with the air rushing through it. Once a wave has started, it can perpetuate downstream from the mountain with further clouds forming on the crests of the waves.

These clouds have a characteristic lens shape and are called lenticular clouds. They can be individual clouds; they can look like stacks of plates; they can look like UFOs; they can be very odd looking clouds indeed. In New Zealand the line of the ranges sits across the westerly winds and a line of lenticular cloud forms along the spine of the country giving it its Maori name, Aotearoa - land of the long white cloud.

Answer 3

Lenticular clouds are a type of altocumulus clouds. They are usually the shape of a lens, and are formed from the winds desending down the slops of mountains. They also can form over multipule mountains creating a wave motioned cloud.

Answer 4

Lenticular clouds are disc shaped, layered clouds that form over mountaintops. They form from rapidly rising air an d are often blamed for being UFO's, because they look like large discs.

Here's a really good photo of one...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050821.html