I don’t quite follow. Your pictures seem to show a mountain ridge, silhoutted dark against the clouds behind it. Am I seeing another part of the mountain outside of that ridge?
If not, it seems to me that any and all cloud pattern would, in 3D, continue behind that ridge, as would an aircraft leaving a vapor trail? it would simply fly straight and disappear in the cloud.
a pattern is a wave, which is energy moving, and the direction of motion of the energy does not need to coincide with the motion of the matter carrying that wave. If you’re frequently on the mountains ... Read even more