A few years ago I seen some very strange clouds. I had never seen anything like this. If I can remember correctly, the temperature was in the low 70’s (f). These pictures were taken on 9/12/01.
http://civideo.com/weather/strangeclouds/
Darrell
it looks like to me that there is a very sharp cold contrast at the bottom of the main cloud “puff”:lol: , so at the top of the clouds it is raining, but a little below it enters a much drier and warmer area and evaporates! 
thats my idea 8)
Hi
i asked a meterologist, and this was the answer:
The tendrils hanging down are called virga — this time ist is a
shower of ice srystals that dissolve into the dry air as they fall…
The cirrus clouds are called cirrus floccus – if the cloud elemens were
less than one degree of arc wide then thay could maybe be called
cirrocumulus floccus.
So it is cirus floccus with virga . High cloud type 2.
great photos!!!
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