Amazing cloud roll captured on camera
Posted by JAC on 1/8/2010, 7:09 am
This amazing picture shows a rare phenomenon called a roll cloud which tend to form ahead of a cold front and can stretch for miles.






Photographer Daniela Eberl took this snap at Las Olas Beach in Maldonado, Uruguay. Photo: NATIONAL NEWS

Published: 10:41AM GMT 06 Jan 2010


They are most common when an advancing storm front causes moist air to rise, then cool to the point where it becomes a cloud known as the dew point.

When this happens along a front, a roll cloud can form, often with air actually circulating along the horizontal axis of the cloud.

Although it looks like a sideways tornado, these clouds cannot become one.

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