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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,539 posts) Wed May 18, 2022, 03:48 PM May 2022

Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds (look like breaking waves)

Cool photo

Three different things in this photo from the Kansas Speedway Sunday caught my eye:

1) Greenish tinge to sky
2) Shelf cloud
3) Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds (look like breaking waves)

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Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds (look like breaking waves) (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2022 OP

Looks like a scene from "Independence Day." dchill May 2022 #1

Beautiful! Very Van-Goghian. n/t Hela May 2022 #2

Wowzers! Jilly_in_VA May 2022 #3

Saw clouds like this in Seattle once The Blue Flower May 2022 #4

dchill

(40,751 posts)

1. Looks like a scene from "Independence Day."

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed May 18, 2022, 03:55 PM

May 2022

Where's Randy Quaid's Winnebago?

Hela

(465 posts)

2. Beautiful! Very Van-Goghian. n/t

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed May 18, 2022, 04:06 PM

May 2022

Jilly_in_VA

(11,090 posts)

3. Wowzers!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed May 18, 2022, 05:10 PM

May 2022

That's not something I've ever seen!

The Blue Flower

(5,642 posts)

4. Saw clouds like this in Seattle once

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed May 18, 2022, 05:26 PM

May 2022

There were maybe 10 of the "waves" on each side of a central break, facing in opposite directions. I was so sorry I didn't have a camera. I've never seen anything like it since. So glad to know they have a name. Is there any meteorological explanation for them?

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