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???????cloud surf

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Created by busterwa > 9 months ago, 20 Dec 2011
busterwa
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20 Dec 2011 9:37PM
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Amazing nature
this is phenomenon in Birmingham, AL today! This phenomenon is called Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. A brief description from the Cloud Appreciation Society: "The breaking waveforms of Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are the result of shearing winds up at cloud level. A particular type of turbulence can develop in a layer of cirrus cloud, which happens to form below an inversion ...between air currents of differing speeds and/or directions. Sea waves break as their bases are slowed down upon reaching shallow water and their crests surge ahead. Cloud waves break in the same way: when their crests are pushed ahead of their troughs by the difference in air currents"

????????????????????????????????? What you make of that ?

REF: www.facebook.com/worldofwindsurf (have to acknowledge original poster)

Stuthepirate
SA, 3591 posts
21 Dec 2011 1:49AM
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you'd be pretty stoked if you scored the third wave of that set

boardboy
QLD, 554 posts
21 Dec 2011 6:05PM
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yeah but they have no power behind them

barn
WA, 2960 posts
21 Dec 2011 6:18PM
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Dunno why World Of Windsurf watermarked this picture? It's been all over the internets..

Plus, a few times I've seen a picture on Seabreeze, then later it gets posted to the Wow FB page..

So, hi WOW, why didn't you credit the original source?

Seems a girl named Alison Bee took this photo 4 days ago, posted it to Reddit and a Meteorologist named Zensunnioracle provided the explanation...

www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/nfi9x/i_live_on_the_beach_in_pensacola_but_today_i/c38pfhp



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