The idea may seem absurd, but our colleague Matthew Cappucci, a meteorologist working with the Washington Postfound the perfect image to describe this type of clouds from the dressing…
Take a container, pour in the basic ingredients for your vinaigrette (mustard, olive oil, vinegar…): the layers are well separated. You have your cloud. Mix it all with a fork: you have the effect of a mountainous mass on our beautiful cloud. The layers that were quite distinct (cut into strata to be precise) find themselves mixed, pushed by ascending winds, the lowest layers come to mingle with the highest layers: our lenticular cloud, altocumulus lenticularis, was born!
