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Marie Botchie (Cloud Appreciation Society Member 65,477) spotted mamma features hanging beneath the canopy of cloud that stretched out over Paw Paw, Michigan, US. The layer was likely the upper part of a distant Cumulonimbus storm cloud. The rounded pouchlike features can develop when cold air within this spread-out upper part of the storm sinks in pockets, pulling the cloud down in distinctive bulges. When Cumulonimbus clouds move through a region, mamma features like this tend to develop at the storm’s rear. Marie noted it was a drizzly day, suggesting she was catching just a little peripheral precipitation while the storm shed heavy showers off on the horizon to the right.