Lenticular Clouds Lenticular clouds, with their distinctive lens shape, often hover over mountain ranges like alien ...

They can occasionally appear flat and layered, so some people also call them pancake clouds. However, their official term is lenticular clouds, which comes from a Latin word that means "lens-like." ...

Lenticular clouds combined with the morning sunrise on the Antrim coast People along the Antrim coast woke up to unusual cloud formations on Friday, reminiscent of scenes from a science-fiction film.

Some also refer to them as pancake clouds, because they sometimes appear flat and stacked. But they are formally called lenticular clouds, a name originating from a Latin word meaning "lens-like".