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Originally Posted by Astroman
Were the vortices associated with a parent cloud? ie. was there a noticable funnel coming from the clouds or were the vortices you refer to, Dust Devils, with no parent cloud and formed from Thermals?
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The ones I saw during the day were dust devils I suppose you'd say - but one of the mextended to quite a height - impossible to judge, but I saw it from about 5km away while driving along where it looked very tall, then up closer it wouldn't have fitted in my 17mm lens at all.
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Originally Posted by Astroman
If the vortices were associated with a parent cloud, my guess is it would be a land spout (A tornado not formed by a Thunderstorm) If there was no cloud then it would be a Dust Devil (willie-willie)
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I'm not sure about the afternoon ones - the big cloud ones. I never saw anything coming down from these pointy inverted clouds so doubt they would have formed in to vortices at all, but they looked like they could
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Originally Posted by Astroman
I think the cloud formation is Strato-Cumulus, but dont quote me on that, not a cloud formation fan, just prefer Cb |
Interesting... I'll do some searching and see what Strato-Cumulus is...
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Originally Posted by Astroman
My mate says they are a mixture of Alto-Cumulus and Cumulus clouds, the m iddle ones are Cumulus or Cu and the ones around it are Ac or Alto Cumulus. Most likely an Inversion around 12,000ft he says. The Cu is Glaciated and weakening.
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Cool.. thanks for all the info