Cirrus Cloudscapes | Munnar

En route to munnar myself and prasad saw these intriguing cloud formations with streaks of clouds in a radiating fashion. I have never seen such cloud formations before. So we made a bunch of images with different compositions. Back home did some dig up using google and wikipedia and found out some cool information about these clouds. Wikipedia has a complete classification of these cloud types. The ones we had observed were cirrus clouds and they are high altitude clouds forming at an altitude of about 6000m. At that altitude high winds blow these clouds into long streamers. Awesome. More specifically the ones we had observed was a sub variety of cirrus clouds called Cirrus Radiatus. Cirrus Radiatus exhibit these white radiating contrails that span the entire sky converging to a point in horizon.