They Came Flying In From The West
A wider shot of this fantastic sunset, I posted a shot of this before but couldn't resist adding another. I was amazed as were the other people on the beach watching the clouds as they changed shape; from a flat band, to soft humps, to wings like these that almost looked like birds taking flight, and then they slowly flattened out and disappeared.
These are Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, a spectacular sight.
Taken in Cambria, California, USA.
"Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds resemble waves breaking in the ocean. These clouds are formed between two layers of air with different densities and traveling at different speeds. If a warm, less dense layer of air exists over a layer of colder, denser air, and the wind shear across the two layers is strong enough, eddies will develop along the boundary. Evaporation and condensation of the eddies render them visible as wave shaped clouds."
They Came Flying In From The West
A wider shot of this fantastic sunset, I posted a shot of this before but couldn't resist adding another. I was amazed as were the other people on the beach watching the clouds as they changed shape; from a flat band, to soft humps, to wings like these that almost looked like birds taking flight, and then they slowly flattened out and disappeared.
These are Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, a spectacular sight.
Taken in Cambria, California, USA.
"Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds resemble waves breaking in the ocean. These clouds are formed between two layers of air with different densities and traveling at different speeds. If a warm, less dense layer of air exists over a layer of colder, denser air, and the wind shear across the two layers is strong enough, eddies will develop along the boundary. Evaporation and condensation of the eddies render them visible as wave shaped clouds."