Nature always surprises us.
Watch the patch of cloud in the middle of the video screen below. What you're seeing is not an optical illusion, the cloud is really doing that.
And it must be huge because that cloud is miles away......
Why is it doing that? Does the mad scientist have an explanation?
Would I have posted this if I didn't?
Well, yes I would, but as it happens I do have an explanation:
That part of the cloud is made of ice crystals, which are carrying an electrostatic charge. That charge means that they will follow the local electric field lines. And those field line are changing shape, every time there's a lightning bolt somewhere in the cloud, throwing the ice crystals about and making the cloud twitch.
Ta-dah!
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