Marvellous mammatus clouds follow Saskatchewan storms

There was a relatively rare andbeautiful aftermath to wicked storms in west-central Saskatchewan on Friday.

They're called mammatus clouds (also called mammatocumulus, mammary or bubble clouds).

While most clouds have wispy edges,mammatuslobes, usually only stable for a few minutes, form well-established boundaries that result in the dense, rounded shapes seen over Saskatchewan on July 3.

Shutter bugs in the Kindersley area were out in force Sunday night as the setting sun painted the bubble formations in red and purple.

• Large hail, high winds hit Kindersley, Sask.
• What makes a bubble cloud?

Mammatuscloudsat sunsetwas the capper to a weekend of wild weather that included golf-ball sized hail, high winds, at least one tornado.