Posted on 08/25/2009 1:23:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog
No one is quite sure what caused bizarre 600-mile-long tubular clouds to form above a small Australian town. The fluffy white rods, known as Morning Glory clouds, can move up to 35 miles per hour, they can pose a problem for airplanes flying through the area.
Wired reports:
A small number of pilots and tourists travel there each year in hopes of “cloud surfing” with the mysterious phenomenon.
Similar tubular shaped clouds called roll clouds appear in various places around the globe. But nobody has yet figured out what causes the Morning Glory clouds.
Check out Wired’s blog to see these crazy clouds for yourself.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/morninggloryclouds/
Weird.
That’s awesome!
Obviously the effects of Global Warming. Several Congressmen and their families will immediately need to go on a junket to Australia to investigate.
Explanation: 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.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060117.html
These chemtrails have gotten out of hand.
Hmmm, pretty.
These clouds always portend the arrival of zombies.
Cirrus or nimbus clouds mean slow zombies.
Those are tubular fast zombie clouds my friend,
by dinkum.
Totally Tubular!
It’s obviously space monsters who are broadcasting mind control waves through mirrors. A popular misconception is that tinfoil can prevent these transmissions, but most tinfoil is actually aluminum. This actually makes transmission more likely. Lead helmets are the only way to really be sure.
Haarp Project.....
Bush’s fault
Depleted uranium is even better.
A very large Iced Vo-Vo biscuit indeed.
Crop dusting gone wild.
That’s amazing.
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