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17 December 2011
Magic Clouds In The Magic City!
Birmingham, Alabama is known as the magic city, and they had a magical cloud display yesterday to go along with the name! I have mentioned Kelvin-Helmholtz waves before on this blog, but there was an AMAZING display of them yesterday in Birmingham. I’m talking a jaw dropping display. These clouds look like sculpted waves in the ocean and are caused by strong wind shear (especially a change in velocity) …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.