When the wind blows from the right direction and the other atmospheric condition are just right, large lenticular clouds can form over a mountain like this one over Mount Timpanogos in Utah. This is condition is uncommon but not rare. I love to watch the clouds on the mountains. They change with every hour of the day. Here is a cloud poem to celebrate the lenticular cloud.
Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair,
Swimming in the pure quiet air!
Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while below
Thy shadow o'er the vale moves slow;
Where, midst their labour, pause the reaper train
As cool it comes along the grain.
William Cullen Bryant
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