A pair of awesome lenticular formations grace mighty Mount Shasta.
Early this past week there were a series of connected lenticular formations on and around Mount Shasta. It began Monday afternoon, peaked around the middle of Tuesday and was then over late Wednesday morning. The symmetry of the event extended beyond its timing too. What began as a disk hovering to the southwest of Mount Shasta grew until that disk was complimented by a large formation over the mountain’s summit on Tuesday. The disk then faded and by Wednesday only the cloud over the summit was left. The first half of the entire spectacle was brilliant, with beautiful colors and clean attractive lines on the clouds. This too peaked on Tuesday and the latter half of the event was not as clean as the former. Nonetheless, taken as a whole, it was one of the better lenticulars of the season. Indeed, late morning Tuesday may have lacked dramatic lighting but in terms of pure formation, it was the best lenticular so far this winter. Hopefully there will be more as precipitation moves back into the area!
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