EmmaDonovan
Crossing the Road
63° here this afternoon but 28° up in the mountains. Snow! 

Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Sure hope it warms for you, it must be miserable for you.Wednesday felt 20 earlier
Night 2 of artic air
930a 35f27
View attachment 4023099
View attachment 4023100View attachment 4023101
That photo depicts a mesocyclone supercell thunderstorm....usually associated with hail and tornados.Friday 10th of January 8a.m. Light, steady rain, some bursts. 11.1 / 11.1kph W, Hg 70%, 21C / 69.6F top of 23 / 73F, DP is 66.7F. Showers. Possible storm.
Moon is 86%
UFO-shaped clouds form over Queensland's Darling Downs as BOM predicts more rain
16 hours ago
![]()
This shot was taken on the Darling Downs about 5:15 on Thursday morning. (Supplied: Kylie Craig Menkins)
It looks like a UFO, or an alien ship, but these oddly-shaped clouds snapped by locals west of Brisbane this morning are an indicator of Queensland's wild weather.
Kylie Craig Menkins photographed the storm cell from Gowrie Junction, near Toowoomba on the Darling Downs, about 5am.
She jokingly captioned it with "aliens come down", but told the ABC the spectacular display made her day.
"It was absolutely beautiful," she said.
Ken Manteit also snapped photos of the other-worldly cloud formation from Yalangur Lilyvale Road looking towards Oakey.
"It was so weird," his wife Roxanne said.
Kevin Humphrey's photos of the storm cell at Glencoe, south-east of Oakey, were posted to social media with the caption "Spaceship at Glencoe".
"I thought it looked a bit UFOish," he said.
Daniel Hayes from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said a "series of storms" over the Darling Downs on Thursday morning was what caused these "photogenic clouds".
"They can sometimes look quite weird in shape, and definitely look a bit like a UFO or a spaceship," he said.
What do they mean?
Mr Hayes said the phenomena — known as arcus or shelf clouds — was a sign to check your weather app for any active warnings.
While the clouds weren't necessarily a cause for concern, "the strength of the gust front is often what brings damaging winds".
"You'll often get that cool breeze come through ahead of a big thunderstorm during these summer periods," Mr Hayes said.
"That's cold air coming down, out of the storm itself, moving ahead of [it]."
He said other types of clouds, like lenticular clouds, could also present in a unique shape — but this particular formation was generally associated with a thunderstorm.