Japanese Airliner crew observed a strange set of clouds over the Sea of Okhotsk. This type of cloud formation occur very rarely in the sky.
The clouds were observed on June 18th last year from a Japan Coast Guard aircraft just off the northeastern coast of Hokkaido. The clouds seem to form parallel channels like the rice fields.
The scientists of the Sapporo Meteorological Observatory say these clouds are known as stratocumulus clouds, which roll into long, distinctive ribbons after becoming trapped in air currents over the area.
Clouds get different shapes because of the wind patterns but the occurrence of the stratocumulus clouds is however very rare in nature and it depends on a number of factors.
The aircraft crew were one of the few ones lucky enough to observe this in person.
There are other type of clouds equally unique in appearance and some of them are: Noctilucent Clouds and Mammatus Clouds.
