Sky turns sharky over the Atlantic and it’s ‘wicked cool’

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy on Friday shared an image of an enormous dark cloud in the shape of a great white shark’s head.

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy on Friday shared an image showing an enormous cloud in the shape of a shark’s head.

More specifically, some might agree, a great white shark’s head.

“Thank you to one of our followers, Sarah, that snapped this picture of a cloud shark! Wicked cool!” the AWSC wrote on Facebook.

Another follower suggested that the phenomenon portends danger: “That’s how sharknados happen…. Just sayin.”

If the massive cloud shark looked ominous it was  accompanied by a rainbow, for whatever significance that might hold.

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The sighting comes when white sharks are gathered off Cape Cod for the feeding season.

The cloud shark was reminiscent of another recent post showing a “flying whale” near Washington’s San Juan Islands. (See photo below.)

Photo: ©Alisa Schulman-Janiger

The cloud whale – obviously a sperm whale, one observer noted – was photographed by researcher Alisa Schulman-Janiger five years ago and shared in July as a Facebook memory.

Reads one of the comments: “Gifted to you by the sky spirits who appreciate your work for the great citizens of the seas.”

–Top image courtesy of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy