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Weather picture of the month June 2006
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Picture taken at Steenokkerzeel on May 20 2006. |
A whale's
mouth is the weird-looking effect of clouds when a gust front of a
storm is passing over. The cold downdraft of air of the storm rushes
outward and forward along the surface and lifts the warmer air in the
direct vicinity of the storm over its condensation level. One gets to see
the back side of this mini cold front and the inside of the gust front
cloud. It looks somewhat like mammatus and other forms of turbulent cloud
masses, sometimes showing very neat ordering.
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