These are the clouds that caused tornadoes in Wilbraham, Chicopee, and Springfield, MA.

These are the clouds that caused tornadoes in Wilbraham, Chicopee, and Springfield, MA.
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Looking SE from North Adams towards southern Berkshire county and southern Massachusetts. Those are mammatus clouds that can spawn tornadoes. Hidden from view was a giant thunderhead behind these clouds I was awe struck when I saw them as I had NEVER seen clouds like this before. We dodged a bullet here. These storms break up over us and reform after they pass those mountains so everything East of those mountains get hammered and anything West of the Hoosic Mountain range near Williamstown, MA gets hammered from Albany, NY eastward then the mountains do an amazing thing in this area, I think some kind of "updraft" forms between these mountain ranges and the worst we usually get is some wind, heavy rain, thunder and lightning, but not as bad as they are before or after they pass these mountains!! That's looking at Florida mountain in the Berkshire mountain range. Thank goodness it broke the horrible heatwave we've been experiencing here for over two weeks at least or maybe one week, seems longer!