Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on August 05, 2020, 03:57:01 pm
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I wish I had been a little higher up a hill or something when I saw this rapidly unfolding freak weather phenomenon taking place behind the hills in the distance, but none the less, it's still quite a good capture of something that I don't think anyone has ever seen before - well at least not that I am aware of or can find on the net, so who knows, I might have actually caught something totally unique here :)
Dave
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It is a very nice landscape shot. I am not sure what was happening though ?
I have seen temperature inversions where air that gets trapped above what is called the capping layer and suddenly drops down when the cap erodes and collapses spreading a cloud out, usually of trapped pollution around a city.
Here is a reference
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(meteorology)
Otherwise, it looks like a thunderstorm trying to form ?
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It is a very nice landscape shot. I am not sure what was happening though ?
I have seen temperature inversions where air that gets trapped above what is called the capping layer and suddenly drops down when the cap erodes and collapses spreading a cloud out, usually of trapped pollution around a city.
Here is a reference
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(meteorology)
Otherwise, it looks like a thunderstorm trying to form ?
Hi Degrub and thanks for the link :), but If you look at the lowest clouds just over the horizon, they look like they are forming a large circle of fingers pointing upwards and inwards, with a centre column of clouds that looks a little like a mushroom cloud rising up from the centre of the fingers.
Perhaps its just me, but I thought this looked very unusual and when we got back to the house later, there was news on the TV that there had been a localised freak weather bomb over Glasgow and that someone had been killed by it.
Dave
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We call them a "derecho". We just had one over the state of Iowa. 100 mph winds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho
sounds like a similar event.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/11/derecho-chicago-midwest-iowa-storm/
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We call them a "derecho". We just had one over the state of Iowa. 100 mph winds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho
sounds like a similar event.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/11/derecho-chicago-midwest-iowa-storm/
Thanks for that and yes you are probably correct ;)
Dave