Residents of Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, said they saw an 'eerie' mushroom-shaped cloud in the skies on Wednesday evening.
Frightened residents of Kazan, Russia's fifth-largest city, have taken to social media to share pictures and videos of a cloud that resembles a"nuclear mushroom", local media reported."eerie" mushroom-shaped
cloud in the skies on Wednesday evening that resembles the shape observed after a nuclear explosion. Local news outlet Vechernyaya Kazan later said that the meteorological phenomenon is a"cumulonimbus" or"anvil" cloud. A cumulonimbus is a dense, vertical cloud containing a thunderstorm, formed from warm, moist, and unstable air that rises and overturns upwards. This causes the cloud top to flatten and spread into an anvil or a mushroom shape.says this type of cloud is more likely to form in tropical latitudes year-round and during the summer season at higher latitudes.
A cumulonimbus incus cloud, also known as an anvil cloud, forms in the sky near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Frightened residents of Kazan, Russia’s fifth-largest city, have taken to social media to share pictures and videos of a cloud that resembled a “nuclear mushroom.
"Warm air is lighter than cold air. Its rise into the middle layers of the atmosphere can be seen in the form of a mushroom cloud. This atmospheric phenomenon is called an inversion, or an anvil cloud. This is a special type of cumulonimbus cloud that rises to a height of about 12 to 15 kilometers [7.4 to 9.3 miles], and then begins to blur," the spokesperson said.'s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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