bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
unfocused mike has added a photo to the pool:
i learned two things posting this shot of a wild, bubbling sky over dallas this june. i did tweak the contrast, but those clouds were real. and really impressive. it felt like a huge storm was brewing, but it didn't rain. i think a major storm-wannabe was sucking moisture or warm air up to it on the way to cause trouble someplace nearby.
anyway, first i think i learned what these clouds are called. i scanned a list of cloud names and for some reason one really popped out. stratocumulus mammatus. now, i'm not 100% sure of their identity, but the visual and description of the mammatus clouds were pretty much dead on. not to mention pretty amusing:
also known as mammatocumulus, or "mammary cloud" a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. the name "mammatus" is derived from the latin "mamma" due to the clouds' characteristic shape, as some believe there is a resemblance between the shape of these clouds and the breast of a woman.
i love the "some believe" part...as if they wanted to say "some horny, immature weather dorks."
ok, then i learned something else when i checked the wording of my title. according to wikiquote, it's a common misquotation of the opening scene of macbeth. around the boiling cauldron shakespeare's three witches say "double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and caldron bubble." it says that the bubble, bubble version was popularized by the disney cartoon "ducktales-much ado about scrooge." so instead of quoting shakespeare, i somehow ended up with freaking ducktales! man, i feel like a real boob.
boob:
1. a stupid person; fool; dunce.
2. a female breast.
i know, i know. enough words! apologies for the long, goofy and wiki-laden ramble.