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Waves of cloud

10-Feb-12

     
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From: Kevin Rodda
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te: Fri, Feb 10, 2012
Subject: Waves of Cloud
I spotted in this morning's Courier Mail a picture of "waves of cloud" flowing over high rise buildings on Florida's coastline ... talk about air behaving as a fluid!
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Referred to in recent USA press articles as a "cloud tsunami", theses pictures of "waves of cloud" flowing over high rise buildings on Florida's coastline (Panama City) were taken by and placed on Facebook by helicopter pilot J. R. Holt who commented ... "when temperature, humidity and winds are just right, we'll get this fog that forms on the high rise condos on the beach".

 

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Scientists however have their own explanation for this phenomenon  ... "warm masses of air coming from the Gulf of Mexico meet and rise above the skyscrapers ... and at height colder air turns them into the clouds ...

 

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... then they slide down on the opposite walls of buildings, where the clouds heat and then dissipate".

 

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