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High Surf Advisory For Birmingham

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 235 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, meteorology, OOT, Open thread, Science at December 20th, 2011 - 11:00 pm




No photoshop that. The photos are of a bizarre atmospheric condition known universally as WTF Weather.  Coldwarrior spotted and posted the story and linked to here.

Experts say the clouds were pristine examples of “Kelvin-Helmholtz waves.” Whether seen in the sky or in the ocean, this type of turbulence always forms when a fast-moving layer of fluid slides on top of a slower, thicker layer, dragging its surface.

There are a couple other photos that I stole and posted elsewhere with credit and a spambot so that CW gets to deal with any copyright infringement butthurt on
The Overnight Open Thread.

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