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Morning Glory Cloud approaching Kangaroo Point 1993

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Morning Glory Cloud.

The Morning Glory cloud is a rare meteorological phenomenon observed in Northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. A Morning Glory cloud is a roll cloud that can be up to 1000 kilometers long, 1 to 2 kilometers high, and can move at speeds up to 60 kilometers per hour

(via Wikipedia)

How come I never knew about this until now???

fuckyeahweather:macmankev:

Weather Geeks Champion New Armageddon-Worthy Cloud

In hill country from Iowa to the Scottish Highlands, sky-gazers have reported some strange, ominous-looking clouds of late. Dubbed undulatus asperatus (turbulent undulation), the atmospheric anomaly could be headed where only 80-odd clouds have gone before: into the International Cloud Atlas. If it makes the cut, asperatus will be the first new addition in more than 50 years.

Woah.

lefts:

Today’s sunset. Flat out gorgeous- the whole sky was painted.

(via Ray Blas)

fuckyeahweather:

Single-cell Cumulonimbus incus - Mykonos / Greece, June 2009

A cumulonimbus incus (Latin incus, “anvil”) is a cumulonimbus cloud which has reached the level of stratospheric stability and has formed the characteristic flat, anvil-top shape. It can cause a supercell and then a tornado.

fuckyeahweather:willw2:

“What kind of cloud is this? A roll cloud. These rare long clouds may form near advancing cold fronts. In particular, a downdraft from an advancing storm front can cause moist warm air to rise, cool below its dew point, and so form a cloud. When this happens uniformly along an extended front, a roll cloud may form. Roll clouds may actually have air circulating along the long horizontal axis of the cloud. A roll cloud is not thought to be able to morph into a tornado. Unlike a similar shelf cloud, a roll cloud is completely detached from their parent cumulonimbus cloud. Pictured above, a roll cloud extends far into the distance in the summer of 2005 above Albany, Missouri, USA.”

(via APOD: 2006 January 17 - A Roll Cloud Over Missouri)

fuckyeahweather:

Wikipedia:

Kelvin Helmholz wave clouds.jpg

Kelvin Helmholtz instability clouds in San Francisco.These clouds, sometimes called “billow clouds,” are produced by instability, when horizontal layers of air brush by one another at different velocities. A better name might be van Gogh clouds: It is widely believed that these waves in the sky inspired the swirls in van Gogh’s masterpiece Starry Night

(via jheath)

jheath:

Cloud Surfing

(via airplanes:bellavita)

(via jheath:somethingintellectual)