Cloud formation brings exclamation point to Anza Valley skies

A cloud shaped like an exclamation point hovers over the Anza Valley, delighting residents Tuesday, August 19. Anza Valley Outlook/Courtesy photo
Mother Nature has been known to make a statement or two, but on Tuesday, August 19, she went all in with punctuation.Local resident Sibylle Rosamond spotted and quickly photographed a cloud that looked just like an exclamation point during her daily walk around the community.“It was really amazing,” Rosamond said. “An exclamation point in the sky.”The photo quickly made the rounds among neighbors on social media, sparking everything from chuckles to outright expletives of delight.But while locals were marveling at the celestial punctuation mark, meteorologists were a little less surprised.“Looks like a wave cloud that forms when higher winds interact with the terrain. We saw a few out the window yesterday,” a representative from the U.S. National Weather Ser
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