Tag: Mount Fuji
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UFO, lampshade? An amazing lenticular cloud hovers over Japan’s Mount Fuji
They look like flying saucers or marshmallows. These UFO-looking lens-shaped clouds called lenticular clouds often develop near the peaks of mountains, as in the case of Mount Fuji in Japan. Lenticular clouds form when strong winds force air up and over a topographic barrier such as a mountain in a wave-like pattern. Once the rising…