Morning Mammatus

Eerie amber sky casts in the morning usually spell impending rain and Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa was no exception. Before the rains came on that morning, a beautiful sunlit mammatus display occurred, residing under the anvil of an approaching storm cloud. Above, the mammatus are seen in the northwest sky, overlooking Bowman Woods Park at 5:45 am CDT. About a half-inch of rain would fall from the thundershower that moved through the area.