Mysterious Spherical Cloud Appears Above Japan

Photos of unusual nature phenomena often go viral on the web, and this weird cloud formation is no exception.

A resident of Fujisawa, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, published a few pictures of a spherical cloud that looks absolutely mysterious.

日曜日の午後3時に湘南台で奇妙な雲を見たとFacebookで投稿がありました。
確かにこんなの、見たことがない…！ pic.twitter.com/we1j5i2vKD

— poppy (@pmxpvrtmx) 6 декабря 2016 г.

@luc_eat_eis そうなんですよね。多分見やすいように修正をしたのではないかと思います。
元の画像がこれです、と3枚出していたうちの1枚がこれです。多分3枚を1枚にしてアップするのに加工ソフトを使ったのではないかと思います。紛らわしいですが（笑）。 pic.twitter.com/ByruhCvcO0

— poppy (@pmxpvrtmx) 6 декабря 2016 г.

The user revealed that she saw this ball-shaped cloud when she looked out of the car window. She gazed at the cloud for a while, and only then rushed to take the photo, she wrote on Twitter. The Fujisawa resident, however, claims the cloud was already losing its shape by that time. Its outline was more blurred than when she saw it with her eyes.

Some experts pointed out that the woman lucky enough to have witnessed a rare climatic phenomenon, which spins in the clouds in "rolls." Such clouds appear on windy days, when the cold and denser air mixes with the rising warm and light air, creating a rotational movement.