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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

RARE MENACING ROLL CLOUD MOVES ACROSS VIRGINIA

They look like sky tsunamis.

On the leading edge of a cold front gliding through the D.C. metro region this morning, a scary-looking tube-shaped cloud stretched across the skies in northern Virginia.  It ended up signaling mostly benign weather, in the form of some showers that followed its passage.  This cloud type is known as a roll cloud or arcus cloud.

Read more and see pictures here - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/09/16/rare-menacing-roll-cloud-moves-across-northern-virginia-pictures/?tid=pm_local_pop

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More articles on clouds on this blog - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Clouds

Cloud Appreciation Society - http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Link to this post - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/09/rare-menacing-roll-cloud-moves-across.html

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